Thanks, Dell, for packing so carefully when you sent the sprouted Brunsvigia seed. They came through perfectly! The seeds are bright green, and some had not only a long, ambitious root but the recognizable beginnings of a "bulb" "stalk" and "first leaf." When I read in an English bulb book that they might take 15 years to bloom, I wonder if I will last long enough to see them....but that might just be England, not Texas. Cynthia W. Mueller College Station, Tx Zone 8b-9