I'm flummoxed by whatever it is I'm not doing. Just y/day out again and found a shady railway cutting overgrown with thick, deep ivy and under pine trees - and dozens of bright pink Aunt Eliza's (= Belladonna's). I just can't figure it out. I'm about to throw the book at Brunsvigia josephinae as she, too, is a challenge for me. I'm going to feed her with low nitrogen, high potassium and high phosphorus fertiliser ie tomato food and see if that makes any difference in the next few years. I've found a Melbourne based gardener who grow the Emperor's wife and get it to flower every year: tub grown and fed, and I expect watered judiciously. Mine just have to survive on what falls as rain - very infrequent at this time of year. Just maybe I've placed too much trust in the old beliefs about leaving these Sth African bulbs 'strictly' alone, un-disturbed, un-watered and un-fed?