Dear All, After some years of patience my small pot of Nerine 'Zeal Giant' now has two scapes of magnificent flowers. I think it is a hybrid between N. bowdenii and N. sarniensis and the flowers have that fascinating crystalline glitter in them, from the sarniensis parent, the colour is an intense purplish pink. My Nerine bowdenii next door looks very small and pale right now...... I followed the comments on this list on virus activation following fertilization, this happened to that plant last year to a worrying extent and I considered to throw the pot away to prevent infection to other plants. Of course I gave it a lot of balanced liquid feed thecause I thought this bulb might be greedy and of course I was impatient to see flowers. I kept it, could not throw it away, no fertilizer whatsoever this year, and here she is..... The leaves still look a bit mottled but much greener than last year. My first sight of this beauty was a very big pot in full bloom with at least 10 scapes in the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, and I could not rest until I found a source (Broadleigh Gardens, but they do not sell it every year) I self pollinated the flowers today, does anybody know if these hybrids come true from seed? Nerine can be apomictic (setting seed without pollination which is genetically identical to the seed parent) but I do not know if this also applies to complex hybrids. greetings from Germany, very nice sunny mild late summer weather Uli