For years I was unable to get Nerine bowdenii to bloom even though I had offsets from a friend of mine who lives locally who bloomed hers successfully in the ground. In my dry summer garden I found they had not survived in the ground so I had planted them in pots. I decided it was time to give them to the BX but when I unpotted them I was surprised how big and healthy they looked. So remembering I had some Cyrtanthus hybrids that never bloomed until I potted up in a much bigger and deeper pot in which they bloomed well each year, I decided to rescue a few and try again with a bigger pot and send the rest on to the BX. Since then they have been blooming well. So I potted up another pot of this species that was not blooming I had grown from seed and it is now blooming well also. When the bulbs I grew from seed started blooming however, I discovered they were all hybrids. Both pots bloom at different times which extends the blooming time. Other species of Nerine I grow in smaller pots bloom just fine. I can't say for sure that was the reason for the change since with bulbs they seem to have a mind of their own about blooming time. My Nerine sarniensis cultivars rarely bloomed until I moved them to a greenhouse year round where they could be warmer in summer and sheltered from heavy rains in winter and started watering them in summer. Now most of them bloom. Sometimes it is just a matter of trying to find what works in your environment and experimenting a little. Even so, the year to year changes in our environments also make a difference. In this dry year I'm enjoying Moraea elegans and it hasn't bloomed for years. I wasn't even sure I had it anymore. And the Oxalis obtusa has been spectacular, dazzling even, much better than in years when we had our normal wet winters when it usually blooms. Since I grow a variety of bulbs it means that usually some of them are going to bloom when they others skip a year or two. I just added to the wiki photos of the offspring of Moraea 'Zoe' grow from seed I saved from that cultivar. I'm afraid I got a little carried away but it's been fun looking at the slight differences in the flowers. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Something else having a wonderful long blooming season this year are all those "homoglads" I've gronw from seed (Gladiolus hybrids probably with G. tristis and G. huttonnii in their heritage.) Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers