"What's Blooming" is a great little section of Bulb Hunter Monthly. The bulb featured in this last edition was of a Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet.' Even though I scored ours with a hack saw and cut off all of the roots, they are STILL blooming. Amazing. I hope yours are doing the same, but if they are not, don't worry. Leave them in the ground and continue to let them establish. Soon you will have mid summer blooms and fragrance and color that few other bulbs can give you in the South.

I show this second picture of the Ellen Bosanquet because it has one of my favorite garden friends, an anole or lizard, on the stem. These lizards have a special place in my heart, because when I was a kid in Houston, I would catch them on the air conditioning vents. If you flicked them, they would open up their mouths. Then you could put them up to your ear, and they would bite down, and you had lizard ear rings. But user beware! If you picked one that was too big, he would draw blood and scare your grandmother into calling your mom out of a board meeting! Or, you could just leave these beneficial garden friends alone and let them eat the insects like they're supposed to.

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