Hi everyone Sometimes the worst catastrophes can give the greatest gifts ! I just came back from Frazer Island & a gate was left open while i was away for a week & the goats had a little holiday in paradise too. For the first time ever they ate everything except my Colchicums, they must taste horrible haha............ I have completely lost my whole ameracrinum collection roots and all :-( that's pretty devastating in fact after watching for signs of life in my worsleyas which were eaten & buried under inches of scuffed broken ground, i shed a tear or two, o what fun they had at my expense. I lost a whole bunch of hippie seeds that were coming on amongst other things, so i'm pretty disappointed. But what is ok is already shooting with some rain, blood & bone & a nightly watering. Some of the crinum brisbanicums are 12 inches tall already & its only been a week since they were reduced to half an inch. I hope it hasn't interrupted the flowering cycle this year. Anyway i got off track there, the point of my loss was, pollen, i was so upset by the loss of every hippeastrum seed & flower i've waited all year for, i went to my little local country town & they had some lovely hippeastrums for sale. To help with my psychological recovery from the devastating event, i bought 5 beautiful budding & flowering hippieastrums. Seeing the happy side of things, it must have been meant to be, because i would never have ordinarily bought them otherwise. They were $10 each but when one of them flowered it was "devinely fragrant" that's right a fragrant hippeastrum. I couldn't believe it !!!!!!! I never knew you could get a fragrant hippeastrum. I smelled it again & again with disbelief, i even thought it must be a trick in the wind from some native flowering in the forest, but no it was real after a few days of double & triple checking, then i quarantined it & yep its beautifully perfumed with a perfect ballance of fragrances. It looks similar to apple blossom, pastel pink across the top half & more white below with a heavy lime green throat. I have it in the house now & it has filled the house with a subtle fragrance of lemon sherbet mixed with the faintest of frangipanni jasmine. I am also a perfumer so i know my fragrances very well, it wasn't just a guess. The fragrance seems to weaken at different times of day but is lovely morning & afternoon. Its 6.38pm now & it is still wafting gently through the house. Flowers 1 to 3 days old have the strongest perfume. I wish i had discovered this when i was a fragrant garden specialist, well o my goodness...........I'm so delighted, its like a dream come true ! Does any one else have more knowledge about any other fragrant hippeastrums ??? or seeds to share ??? I would love to concentrates some time toward collecting others to continue experimenting with cross pollination for stronger or different perfumes ??? That's my new quest for this year !!! I was just reading Jim Shields blog on pollination storage & it is very well & simply described if any one needs to know the inns & outs of it. Fingers crossed everyone ! Happy Gardening :-) Steven Hart Esk Queensland Australia