Dear John, I grow S. canaliculata and S. serrata. I am fond of them both. S. serrata is smaller, but long blooming and quite charming in an understated way. I have found the Spiloxenes difficult from their small seed. A couple of them have germinated the first year and others in the second year, but not in great numbers. I am grateful to Julian Slade who donated seed to IBSA for two of the species I was able to get from seed to bloom. We too have enjoyed seeing Spiloxene in the wild, even though we weren't always sure of which species we were seeing. I don't think any of our digitals of S. aquatica came out very well for the wiki, but Lauw took his shoes off and waded in the water and he might have been more successful. Andrew Harvie from Australia who is not on our list (alas) has crossed S. capensis and canaliculata. He wrote on one of the Aussie lists they "produced some fantastic colours from even darker pink to mixed orangy pink flowers, also a yellow." He obviously knows how to grow them from seed. Jim Duggan once wrote that S. serrata was one of his longest blooming bulbs which is why I wanted to grow it. On my database from last year I noted my two plants bloomed from February to April. I've tried a couple of times to grow S. linearis from seed, but haven't had any germination. Gordon Summerfield has been collecting different forms of Spiloxene capensis as he has found in the wild wide variation in color and markings. Julian Slade awhile back on one of the Australian lists wrote that the Australian botanists still considered their "Spiloxenes" Hypoxis. Is this still so? Does anyone grow Empodium? It looks like a fall blooming Spiloxene with pleated leaves. I don't grow it and can't remember seeing it offered. Mary Sue