From: <bonsaigai37@aol.com> minus the attachment >Hurray!!! This summer I lit a fire... TEENY-TINY fire, over my >Haemanthus sanguineus. Using Dioscorea elephantipes, old Haemanthus >leaves and bit of orchard grass, the fire went for a few minutes a >day for about a week. Voila! After ten years of two leaves - >beautiful, foot 'round leaves mind you, it finally bloomed. While >not entirely open, it's putting on a pretty god show. It's planted >in a 16" terracotta, gravel, sand, pine bark with coir, worm casting >dressing each season before growth. The leaves remain viable each >year from September/October through April/May. I keep it completely >dry in summer, when dormant. > >Michael >Interlaken, NY