Well, after a 4 year wait, I was expecting a red R.spenden to finally bloom…but yesterday what bloomed instead was a pink R.advena…or possibly a pink R.bifida...I don't know for sure. Over the course of their repottings & many migrations around the yard, I accidentally switched the potting labels in two (or more) of the pots. Fortuntely a bulb in another pot was also sending up its first scape…so I was hoping the confusion would be quickly resolved when it bloomed. Wouldn’t you know Sacramento had its first scorcher (F98) of the year yesterday…if felt like someone had turned up the sun…and having left all the pots of various Rhodophiala bulbs in full sun, the tender neck of the scape scorched & withered! So the mislabeling mystery…and my delayed gratification…will go one for yet another year! Oh, the sweet poetic justice...and so many lessons yet to be learned! ~david