Beautiful, Chris! always a very soft pink? I found another Flickr posting of a similar, albeit slightly more intense pink from a gentleman in Japan, which he calls C. mackenii 'Rosea' and indicates it had been around (in Japan) for over 100 years. I hope he doesn't mind me posting a link to his photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oki_tokyo/4329704623/ No clue how or why yours refers to 'Himalayan'. In any case, I now covet a pink C. mackenii! Ken San Diego --- On Mon, 2/22/10, christopherwhitehouse@rhs.org.uk <christopherwhitehouse@rhs.org.uk> wrote: I bought this bulb a couple of years ago in our Wisley shop: http://flickr.com/photos/63276845@N00/… It first appeared in the RHS Plant Finder in 2006 at Beeches Nursery but I doubt that was where it was first named. It is more or less evergreen and flowers easily despite the neglect I give it. I presume it is just another coloured selection of C. mackenii. But does anyone know anymore about it, especially where it got that strange name? What does a South African plant have to do with the Himalaya? Chris