Leo, look at Peter's careful recipe: this is what a bulb like this Scadoxus is likely to find in the wild, nothing to do with a vegetable garden ferti9lizer regime. Small wonder Peter is one of the bulb experts of the world. > I give very little fertiliser and there is some clay in the compost, as > well as leafmould sand, grit, bark and perlite They have been growing along ....