Nice to be in touch with you again, Andrew. You wrote: >>I think we may have been two of the few people who requested nerine bulbs from that Zienkowski I don't know how many people took those bulbs, but it was a great way to get started with Nerines. Steve V. deserves endless praise for all of the time he put into that rescue. Which reminds me -- listen up, PBS members. If you have a bulb collection with anything rare in it, make some sort of arrangements to get it distributed to others after you're no longer on the scene. Your family won't know to contact people on this list (or any other forum) unless you give them instructions. I thought the late Les Hannibal handled this well. He gave his best crosses to family, and then invited us to come dig bulbs from the rest. He did something nice for others, and at the same time helped to preserve his hybridizing work. On the other hand, Jack Zinkowski died without making any arrangements for his bulbs. The bulbs were almost thrown out, and no one ever found his breeding records. So we have a lot of nice-looking Nerines with names like "J-36," and there is no way to tell what that means, or what other plants it ought to be crossed with. >>(Nerines:) Mine are still doing well, requiring almost no attention - which is probably why they are doing so well. Many are in the same pots as when I first potted them up - was it 1996? 199-something, yes. Mine too seemed fairly content in their original pots, but eventually I decided they needed a nice repotting. I have been very pleased with the results. Mike San Jose, CA