Nhu wrote: Nhu, I really like your idea of posting pictures of what's blooming. I'll participate as soon as I have something in bloom. Although I love the ease of use of Picasa, I don't like that I have to start paying them once I go over a certain number of photos. Maybe I'll make a separate account for "what's blooming" photos. Thoughts on a couple of comments people made... Nhu wrote: >>I'm about to give up on Lycoris... I've had the same experience here, an hour to the south of Nhu and with a lot more summer heat. I don't know what's missing in my case -- I have tried Lycoris in spots where they get summer warmth and water, but at best I get one year of flowers, and usually not even that. My complaints sound exactly like what I hear from folks in the US south and midwest trying to grow Amaryllis belladonna. I think there is some sort of natural rule -- if you can easily grow A. belladonna, you can't grow Lycoris, and vice-versa. I want to echo the enthusiastic things that some folks said about Dieramas. Mine here have just finished blooming. For years I had trouble getting them established because there was a gopher in the vicinity that loved the corms. Eventually I got rid of the gopher (or it died of old age), and the Dieramas came back from a few small corms the gopher had missed. Now I have a huge clump that puts up flower stalks over six feet in height (2m). They are magnificent! The one drawback is that in my conditions, the Dieramas appear to prefer a bit of high shade over them. The ones I've planted in full sun didn't thrive, while the plants under a tree are doing great. Their flower stalks are just tall enough that they hide in the bottom branches of the tree. As the tree gets taller, I am gradually cutting out the lower branches, so hopefully in a few more years I'll be able to see those flowers more clearly when they bloom. Mike San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F / -7C)