I grow my Veltheimias in a greenhouse that hits freezing (but not below) every year. The capensis, which I grew from Silverhill seed, has very nice clear pink flowers; in blooms in February. I divided it once when it went dormant. Jim Jones Lexington, MA -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Kraatz <plantnut@cox.net> To: pbs <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 3:29 pm Subject: [pbs] Veltheimia My Veltheimia go below freezing before Christmas most years. Just seems to make them grow better. This year we had the worst heat day since I've lived here on Sept 14 I was 106 degrees. It went above 100 at 10am and didn't drop below 100 until 6pm. What was strange about this heat was the high humidity. In s. Calif. heat normally occurs with very low humidity. It totally blasted the foliage on all my Veltheimias. Fortunately they recovered and I fertilized them and they all look great at this time. I have a suspicion that the blasting of the foliage was because they couldn't transpire and cool down. I get yellow flowers on very few B. bracteata. The yellows never set seed and I just have to propagate by dividing the bulbs. But, I always sow the seed of the pink bracteata and about 2% produce yellow flowers. Go figure!! My V. capensis are now in full bloom. I like the foliage but the flowers are very mottled and not nearly as attractive. Joe, Oceanside, C A