Hi Shelly, Enjoying all the rain lately.... I'm just loving it,,, Crinum season ;-)) I don't actually don't know which fratillia I have, I just thought they looked unusual & it was an experiment to see if they would survive my exposed soilless, dry mountain top environment & I wasn't paying attention when I bought them & forgot to put the name in my flower collection data base, where I try to keep a photo & botanical name of every bulb I buy... If your thinking, I bet he buys too many, !!! you'd be very right haha..... I'm away from home for a week or two, but will see if I saved the photo & hopefully I might have the name if I kept the docket It hasn't flowered yet but I think the colour is a reddish brown, maybe with little speckles I think, but I cant quite remember which one I grabbed, I have the memory of a goldfish... Mine are about 3 years old & still in 6" pots,, in shade, in searls premium potting mix with about 10% fine loamy sand mix... Not suitable for everyone but I have good success in my environment & it retains enough moisture for the regular times I'm away for longer periods... I think I might have got mine from Tesselars... Steven Esk Queensland Australia Winter zone 5, Summer zone 10 On 2 February 2013 22:07, Shelley Gage <s.gage100@hotmail.com> wrote: > > If you can get them to flower, Steve then it might be worth my giving them > a try. Any recommendations for which ones would be best?ShelleyGoomboorian, > South-east Queensland (same as Steve,I guess) > > From: hartsentwine.australia@gmail.com > > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 21:42:24 +1000 > > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > > Subject: Re: [pbs] Un-known bulb > > > > Hi Ina > > I have some Fratillias growing here in hot sunny Queensland & my average > summer days peak around 36*C, for a couple of months, but recant spikes > got up up to 42* very rare thank goodness... > > > > Steven : ) > > Esk Queensland Australia > > Winter zone 5 Summer zone 10 > > > > > > On 02/02/2013, at 6:26 PM, Ina <klazina@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > > > > > Could be Roland. I thought Auckland was too hot for Fritillarias? > > > Steven : ) Esk Queensland Australia Summer Zone 5 Winter Zone 10