A number of years ago on another bulb list there was a thread about when is the best time to visit South Africa. It was a really heated discussion with many of us coming away with the conclusion that it depended entirely on what you wanted to see. Was it the daisies of Namaqualand, the spring blooming bulbs of Nieuwoudtville or Middelpos, the summer rainfall bulbs of the Eastern Cape or the Drakensberg? You'd have to go at different times and hopefully in a year of rainfall at the right time to see all of these . One of the possibilities was to go at a time when the fall blooming amaryllids were in bloom. Rachel Saunders has shared photos of Brunsvigia bosmaniae blooming in Nieuwoudtville and what a sight it is! <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> If you go to the page to look and know anything about Babiana and have an opinion about some of the species I wasn't able to identify from our trip in September 2006, please speak up. Mary Sue