I obtained a Paramongaia when Bill Dijk visited the United States from New Zealand and brought along some to sell. I tried for a couple of years to make it grow when I thought it was supposed to grow. At the time we didn't realize that some clones grow in winter and some in summer. I finally gave up and listened to the message it was sending about when it wanted to grow (winter). My bulb succumbed to the bulb fly before it bloomed, but an offset finally bloomed many years later this past January when I was ready to give up. I was very impressed by how long the flower lasted and its fragrance. We once had a topic of the week (October 2003 if you want to look in the archives) about bulbs that could be converted to another cycle. This seems to be the exception, but it can be done (Sandersonia is an example). Plants that are forced or sold at the wrong time usually when left on their own return to their normal period of growth. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has successfully gotten a plant to grow at a time different than when it would grow in its native environment. I have mentioned in the past Brunsvigia grandiflora flowering in winter in California and summer in South Africa. Mary Sue