Hi all, No, it is not spring here yet, after all! The sun is shining (for the moment) but it is pretty chilly out there, maybe up to 20°F by now. My dogs keep seeing the sunshine and wanting to go outside, only to be reminded once out there that it is still cold. Once this evening's promised snow gets here, they will know it's cold outside. My "lost" pot of Cyclamen purpurascens has been found. It is bursting into bloom. Some very nice person sent me some seeds of C. purpurascens when I thought I had lost it. Now I can reciprocate with some seeds of C. graecum if anyone needs that. I will send most to the NARGS SeedEx next summer, but I can spare a few now for Dell's BX/SX. Cyrtanthus [elatus X montanus] is blooming, in fact several pots of it are starting to open. There is a scape on one pot of Cyrtanthus mackenii cooperi (the yellow form) and one on Cyrtanthus obrienii. In my little greenhouse devoted to David Conway's export clivias, there are lots of scapes suddenly starting to appear. More on those later. Several of my Scadoxus puniceus are in flower, from several different sources. I'm running around trying to pollinate them. Wish me luck, please! Ornithogalum apertum is blooming with yellow flowers with a green stripe, Onixotis triquetra is in bloom (white), and several Lachenalia have started flowering including LL. latifolium, mutabilis, and carnosa. Seeds have set on L. pusilla. I didn't get them collected last year, and now the pot has lots of tiny seedlings in it too. The new greenhouse is virtually finished. The power company ran the buried cable from their transformer to the meter base yesterday, and they will set the meter on Monday. The electricians have less than one day's work left to do, and then I can have the final inspection. The new greenhouse will be just for Clivia plants. I can finally turn my suppliers loose to ship to me! Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA