Hi, I've added a number of Sparaxis pictures to the wiki of plants we saw in South Africa in September. There were wonderful Sparaxis elegans and S. tricolor blooming near Nieuwoudtville. We also saw Sparaxis bulbifera on our trip from Cape Town to Darling. It's a little challenging to tell it apart from the white Sparaxis grandiflora (ssp. fimbriata) we saw at Lion's Head, but the former has stems that are branched. We saw the yellow form of S. grandiflora (ssp. acutiloba) driving from Clanwilliam to Citrusdal and what I think was Sparaxis metelerkampiae near Clanwilliam. There was a pot of S. variegata in the Karoo Desert Botanical Garden too. I've also added some more hybrid pictures to the Sparaxis hybrid page. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… Sparaxis continue to be very happy in my garden. I tried to dig all of them out a couple of years in a row when some appeared with breaks in the petal color, a sign of virus. I must not have gotten all of them as more have appeared in some of the cleared out patches. If the ones left are virused, they certainly are vigorous in spite of that. It seems like a losing battle. I'm very ambivalent about this since I find them so cheerful and bright that I hate to have to keep trying to get rid of them so now I just dig any that look like there is a color break in the leaves when they first emerge or the flowers once they bloom. Mary Sue