Dear Lauw Kniphofia sarmentosa is found in mountain streams and moist hollows from the western Karoo to the to the Hex River mountains (winter rainfall areas) of River mountains (winter rainfall areas) of South Africa. . I saw it in flower when I was there last September. It was in full bloom on September the 15th at the bottom end of the Hex river valley. o I guess that it can be considered as a winter bloomer. Best regards, Luc Best regards, Luc -----E-mail d'origine----- De : Lauw de Jager <dejager@bulbargence.com> A : Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Envoyé le : Me, 27 Février 2008 12:21 Sujet : [pbs] Winterflowering Kniphofias Dear all, his year we have a brillant example of a winterflowering Kniphoffia: K ooperii. We only had severe frost the end of November. All the flowerbuds emained intact throughout the winter and the flworing has lasted since arly January. In the Northeast of Spain I saw a few days ago another niphofia in flower marqued as being K sarmentosa (glauce green naroow oliage spike elongated with red/yellow flowers). Can anyone confirm that his species is indeed winterflowering. As far as I can find in the iterature the only winter flowering species are K rooperi and coddiana (it as certainly not one of these two) ook forward to yor help Greetings - Lauw de Jager ulb'Argence outh of France (zone 9 (olive trees) mailto: dejager@bulbargence.com ite http://www.bulbargence.com/ ______________________________________________ bs mailing list bs@lists.ibiblio.org ttp://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php ttp://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/