Marguerite wrote >As I was sorting through the bulbs, I found a container of Ferraria >crispa that I got from the BX several years ago. It has never >bloomed, but keeps throwing off bulbs. I have had it in a ten inch >wide and deep container and treat it like the other tender >bulbs.(feed once lightly and start water when leaves show; water it >modearatly until they die back, let it dry in summer. > >Are there other tricks to make it perform? Actually, Marguerite, you're fortunate that it has not flowered. Of all the bulbs I've ever grown, Ferraria crispa has the most offensive odor. To me it's worse than some of the aroids that smell like manure or carrion, because it's an awful smell that seems to have no cognate in the rest of nature. I put up with it (in the solarium) for two years and threw it away. Jane McGary