Greetings, When I lived in Queensburgh/Durban last year I had set all of my bigger Crinum up into beds. I did my best to emulate where they had come from. About 200-300 Crinum macowanii were in a bed on a bank adjacent to my storm water drain. They were flooded every time it rained. They lived in full sun and most gave me at least 3 stalks per bulb. Some even produced 5 stems (almost at the same time). They were the first to flower (now, in mid spring) Down in the forest I had about 500 Crinum moorei. They were between two annual streams and tended to flower in mid summer. By keeping them more than 5 metres into thick bush, I managed to keep the Amaryllis caterpillar at bay. To do the same in open spaces I need to plant Tagates (Marigold). Between the two beds I had set up an area for my Crinum acaule and delagoense/forbesii. I dug out a bed of about 4 metres by 2 metres and about 500mm deep. I back-filled with fine beach sand and sunk the pre-mentioned two species into the beds. They flowered in December (mid summer). Another large bed was home to about 2000 Eucomis hybrids. These were also in full sun. In the forest I had beds/clumps of the lesser value bulbs. On a bank that was home to a spring, I had all my species Kniphofia and below that was a few thousand Zantedeschia ethiopica. Further in the forest was huge clumps of Dietes grandiflora and iridioides. When I moved here to the farm (near Pietermaritzburg) I brought a few truck loads of bulbs up with me and just planted them anywhere to keep them going. I am slowly separating them and planting them into beds. The only plants not happy with the move has been the Crinum procerum (Hawaii), Crinum asiaticum and Musa merelii (ex Kenya, I think that is the name of my red edible bananas?). All three are unhappy with the cold winters. In Durban we dropped to a minimum of 8C at night whereas here we drop to 0C and even had 2 evenings of light frost. Regards Greg