Indeed, in my greenhouse as well. The Haemanthus humilis humilis are starting to bloom right now, while H. montanus has seeds almost ripe and foliage about half its ultimate size. One H. carneus is blooming now, but it will probably not leaf out for another month or so. H. humilis hirsutus seems to be much more erratic in habit. One, the largest, bloomed when the montanus bloomed a few weeks ago. Another is just now starting to bloom. They did not bloom on this same schedule last year. Jim Shields At 08:57 AM 6/29/2010 +0200, you wrote: >To get back to the culture of the 'summer-growing' Haemanthus (humilis, >carneus and montanus): they normally stay dormant from midwinter to >midsummer, rather odd. Leaves start to appear only in late December or >January in the southern hemisphere, despite the summer rains starting 3-4 >months earlier. > >Rhoda McMaster >Napier, S.A. ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA