I just came from a Master Gardeners class where one of my classmates shared that a few years ago when her mother passed she quickly dug her mom's Irises up & brought them home in a paper bag & promptly forgot them. Two years later she rediscovered them in then garage & decided to give them a try & to her amazement they not only grew but bloomed that year & everyone since. Karl On May 1, 2013 10:45 AM, "Jim McKenney" <jamesamckenney@verizon.net> wrote: Frank Car wrote of Scadoxus multiflorus "Interestingly, a couple years ago... I forgot to bring them out that year. I thought they would be dead for sure but I was wrong! Completely dry for over a whole year but when watered they soon took off and flowered like nothing had happened! Simply amazing." I had exactly the same experience last year with some Hymenocallis 'Sulfur Queen' dug in the fall of 2010: that they were still alive in 2012 was amazement enough, but that they popped into bloom a few weeks after being planted was unbelievable. Jim McKenney