Dear Bea and all, Your comments are exactly what I promote regarding C. bulbispermum. Since it is slow to pup and so easy from seed. - Plant seed as soon as ripe (I can send some to you if you'd like from My Zone 5/6 Kansas City MO location). Keep them indoors and growing as long as they will over winter. If you are lucky they'll look like a puny scallion in spring. Plant them deep- just a fringe of foliage showing, in full sun and water well. Mulch pretty weel the first winter, then little to none. Should bloom in a few years after and just get better. Jim W. On Jul 5, 2013, at 3:44 PM, B Spencer wrote: > I certainly would be interested in trying crinum bulbispermum up against a > south wall planted very deeply and mulched in my zone 5 (it did behave like > zone 6 lately on a number of occasions, though. Not the same as forty years > ago), if I could grow it from seed and plant out when the bulbs are larger. > This way losses would not be so painful... financially, that is. Taking into > consideration the providence of the seed, it is worth a try. Nothing risked, > nothing gained! > Bea in Ontario