Hi, I've continued to have bulbs with flower spikes in my garden earlier than usual and more than usual so my experience has been different than Andrew's in southern California. But severe drought for us is still much more rain than severe drought for him. I probably didn't need to add any more photos of Amaryllis belladonna to the wiki as it was already well represented. But I have added photos my husband has recently taken of some of the displays in our town and seen on our hikes as they are widely planted. I wonder if you see these kind of displays in South Africa. Someone has planted a hillside below my husband's office. They get no supplemental water other than rainfall, but are very exposed. This year they were really amazing. (Third row of photos in the link below are the new ones.) http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Mary Sue