Well, as long as we are all chatting about Nerine, I might as well share my images on my Flickr page from last week. http://www.flickr.com/photos/exploraculture/page2/ I also posted some on my blog Growing with plants.com, where there are more. I planted some N. sarniensis ten years ago along the foundation of the greenhouse in the alpine garden, and although they send up foliage every autumn, never a bloom. I may have planted them too deeply ( I think I buried them about a foot deep). I tried photographing all of my collection this year, since most bloomed, so that I could have an image with the name tag, and the blossom, but they are so challenging to photograph. I spent three days shooting each stem with a label, but they looked nothing like the real, live, blossom. I finally decided to just pick them all, and arrange them on a board in the garden, arranged in floral foam by color. I figured that a nice photoshoot was worth a few seeds! Matt Mattus Worcester, MA USA Zone 5b On 11/3/10 5:26 PM, "Ellen Hornig" <hornig@earthlink.net> wrote: > I put a group of N. bowdenii in the garden this year, near the south-facing > wall of the garage, and they're all in full bloom now, seemingly unperturbed > by the fairly significant freeze we had last night (down to at least 28F). > This clone, which I confess I got on eBay years ago, has always been quite > frost-tolerant in containers (I'd bring them onto the deck to admire when > they came in bloom). It's also free-blooming, and multiplies like crazy. > I'll be interested to see whether the ones I planted out reappear in spring. > > Ellen > > Ellen Hornig > Seneca Hill Perennials > 3712 County Route 57 > Oswego NY 13126 USA > http://www.senecahillperennials.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/