I've had these bulbs now for well over 16 years. No, they're not nearly
as large as I'd wish them to be. But that's not a problem. They're VERY
happy in the heavy clay pot they live in now. I feed them bulb food in
the summer, drag them outside once frost is past, and back inside for
winter before killing freeze. This year I had feared the sneaky freeze
we'd gotten unexpectedly (this surprised even our infallible
meteorologist who NEVER misses) had killed them. Usually they emerge
almost missed by me in February in the midst of the winter chaos. Not
so this year. When all around me was blooming two months too soon
outside, the soil was barren and not showing one purple mottled green
tongue........March came and went. I dug into the soil slightly and
felt the tip of one bulb, and gently tugged. It resisted.
sigh.......good, it's not dead, I hoped. Then the first two weeks
slipped by in April, and I had started watering in earnest. Wakey
wakey, it's SPRING in Tennessee(or Africa, it's choice)or winter,
whichever it felt it was. mattered not. I wanted to know if it was gone
and I should weep and wail and try and locate replacements. But never
fear, there they were three days ago.............and there will be MORE
blossoms to wow me and you if you can STAND it........sigh.......let the
blood lilies flaunt their beauty! So for those of youse who is curious
and can get to alt.binaries.pictures.gardens......there they are. And
there are more shoving through the soil!! (I'm so happy I could
split!)Now if I could only locate someone who has a shedload of white
rain lilies (Zephyranthes) (or even yellow or pink ones.......)

madgardener up on the ridge, back in Fairy Holler, overlooking English
Mountain in Eastern Tennesssee zone 7, Sunset zone 36