Thank you Nick and Jim, I have had problems growing Z. atamasco, but it is the spring wet bit I didn't know. I have managed to get one to flowering stage from seed, but it was nothing short of a miracle to me. It is in the detail the difference lies, wet in spring. Should have better chance now with the seed of my one and only. What about Z. simpsonii? Does that have a detail I am missing in the wet part? Like Z. atamasco, I have managed to get one to flower. But only the one. Ina Ina Crossley Auckland New Zealand zone 10a On 28/10/2013 9:13 a.m., Nicholas Plummer wrote: > Z. atamasco is fairly common near my house. I see them blooming best in meadows with soil that is consistently wet in Spring, but they do not seem to require standing water. > > Nick Plummer > > Durham, NC, USA > > > > On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Ina Crossley <klazina1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jim, which varieties of Rainlily do this? Would they be ones likeZ. >> atamasco? >> >> Ina >> >> >> On 28/10/2013 8:04 a.m., J.E. Shields wrote: >>> Some grow and bloom only when there is standing water > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > . >