Beautiful Martin! And interesting! It appears your "Brunaryllis" bulbs remain at or below the surface. Or is the mulch hiding above ground growth? Do you fertilize? Wayne Roderick also gave me seed in 1995 from his Brunsvigia josephinae, which he indicated had been open pollinated by hummers. He advised me that the bulbs must go in the ground at some point if I wanted them to flower. I did so 5 years later after moving to San Diego. The first bloom occurred at 10 years, in 2005, and has bloomed every year since. It appears to be 'pure' B.josephinae ... or at least very similar to Wayne's mother bulb. It has produced an increasing number of florets ... from 25-42 ... each year until this year, when it only produced 35 florets (I provided no supplemental water last year and it was a very dry year.) This first-to-bloom bulb has been a poor seeder, producing at most a dozen seed each year, only a few of which have been viable. In 2008, two additional bulbs (of 11) produced scapes, adjacent to the first bulb. The hummers went wild, smearing pollen everywhere! These two new scapes produced close to 200 seeds (most of which were viable) but the first-blooming bulb still produced only a dozen or so. Here's a link to a shot in 2008: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amarguy/2834501207/ This year, the 2 heavy seeders took a break from flowering, but a 4th bulb did produce a scape for the first time, alongside the bulb which first bloomed in 2005. Hummers were active (including this 190lb one) but between these two, I harvested only a few seed, which have not germinated. Hoping for a better year in 2010 ... I also plan to provide additional water. Ken San Diego --- On Sat, 11/7/09, Martin Grantham <marhoot@yahoo.com> wrote: I have some interesting bulb hybrids that have flowered recently and thought PBS folks might be interested in the pics. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… In 1995 Wayne Roderick let me make reciprocal crosses with his Brunsvigia josephinae and 3 color forms of Amaryllis belladonna, white, bicolor, and magenta. (Jim Lykos let me know the same bigeneric cross was made with a superior form of B. josephinae in Australia back in the 1800's.) It took 12 years for the first to flower and now, after 14 years only 9 individuals have flowered (probably because I haven't had enough room to put many in the ground where they belong). The 3 progeny with A. belladonna as seed parent that have flowered look just like their A. belladonna parent, but the 6 that have flowered with B. josephinae as seed parent are intermediate. I call them "Brunaryllis." None of these has been able to set seed with A. belldonna or with sibling pollen so far, but my hope is that eventually one of the progeny will be fertile so an F2 can be produced. The tallest inflorescence this year has a 41 in. stalk height and, with flowers included, stands 52 inches. Flower number has gone up slightly for repeat flowers, starting at about 20 flowers per stalk and now approaching 30. No offsets have yet been produced. The pics are by a friend named Ken Gray