The late Bill Welch, breeder and commercial grower of Amaryllis belladonna bulbs, once told me that bulbs (without roots) could easily be stored dry, outside near the coast in Monterey County for over a year with little, if any, deleterious effects. Flowering in significantly warmer San Diego after five dormant years is impressive even if the bulbs benefited some from being in the ground. Nathan At 11:40 PM 8/20/2020, you wrote: >Last winter restored our gardens in San Diego. That included bulbs. >Of special note in high summer was, for many years, Amaryllis >belladonna. For five years little, if anything, was seen of these >lovely creatures. I mean, no flowers and no foliage. Clumps with >over a hundred bulbs each lay dormant. Finally, and not until >mid-July, they burst up. After their absence for five years it was a >wondrous sight. Other South Africans had flowered once or twice over >that period but A. belladonna had not. The clump sizes had not >changed but the individual bulbs had shrunk somewhat. Steady, non >torrential winter rains made all the difference. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…