[jshields]

H. albiflos is tough as nails! I have had a tray of them laying in the basement, bare rooted and dry and in the dark, for 6 or 8 months. Irma, my wife, finally got disgusted and potted some of them up, since I kept procrastinating it. They are still firm and have some dark green showing.

It's probably a good thing they aren't frost hardy here!

You can water them somewhat all year round. The Drakensberg, their home turf, gets some rain every month of the year -- over a meter per year in some places; it just gets more in summer.

Some of my winter-growing Haemanthus have gotten confused by the cool weather we had in July, so two pots of H. barkerae are blooming as well as one coccineus, and I may have a scape starting on namaquensis. This will be the first bloom ever on my namaquensis.

Jim Shields