This afternoon I noticed that one of my Rhodophiala spendens...planted from Chileflora seeds from back in July of '08...had sent up a scape and there was another on the way! Ah, sweet success! And just 2 months shy of the 4 year mark! Patience isn't exactly my strongest virtue...so what was I thinking!? Somehow I doubt they'll give the same satisfaction that Joyce's Habanthus robutus did (in just half the time)...but still, I'm giving myself gold stars 'n' oak leafs for perseverance...and for not killing the damn things over the course of their many repottings & migrations around the yard. Naturalizing a bulb endemic of Chile to a Northern California (Central Valley) climate ain't easy. I tried putting them on the same watering/domancy cycle as my beloved Amaryllis belladonnas, and while their foliage is going dormant...like the belladonnas...they're sending up scapes & going into bloom at the same time as my Habranthus tubispathus, which is fine by me. Even though Alberto said not to, at the end of the summer they're ALL (R. splendens, R.advena, R.bagnoldii, R.phycelloides, R.bakerii & R.montana) goin' in the ground...well, into a bedded mound actually...where they can fend for themselves. I feel that I've had my success...so once they're bedded...it's survival of the fittest...and I'm done with Rhodophiala! ~david (Sacramento, CA)