Dear Lisa I am so glad I found your site. I am an artist working in England. I mostly paint botanical subjects and I was given a photograph of the white spider lily last year from a friend who visited South Africa and found one there. I have since approached The Eden Project in Cornwall, England to see if they had any knowledge of this plant, but they do not. The Eden Project is a major conservation project which has a tropical biome in which the spider lily might thrive. I would be most interested in finding out what growing conditions the lily likes and whether it would be possible to grow it here in the tropical biome. I am also interested in how the lily is polenated. With the anthers being so far apart, we thought that it might be Humming Birds that spread the pollen, with the action of its wings. I would be most intersted to find out as much as possible about this flower as The Eden Project have commissioned a book (the fourth one) and the subject will be exotic flowers. I have been lucky enough to be published in the last book, and if I can get enough information about the lily and a really good image to reproduce in watercolour, I may be accepted for publication again later on this year. I see that you have a list of plants you would like to swap, and it may be possible for me to ask the Eden Project if they have any that we can sent you in exchange for a specimen of the Spider Lily. Its a big ask, but might work, I am going down to Eden in May for a painting day, and will ask the chief horticulturalist then if we can do a swap. I hope I have not taken up too much of your time and would really love to hear from you regarding this lovely and unusual plant. With kindest regards Yours sincerely Ann Jelley

Dirtfloor & Gardenville, Yes, you both have stuff I want!!! I will send you each an email tonight or in the am and we can set it up.....Thanks! Vic Also, please anyone that responds to this, only do so if you really want to trade. The first person I delt with on this site got me all excited to make my first trade, I sent them all my info, and tried to get theirs, and work it out......haven't heard from them again. (maybe cause I told them it was my first trade?)

Hi Mary Jane, I am very interested in trading with you. I will need to check my seeds and get back to you . If you are interested, I could trade a named varigated hosta plant for some of your tiger lily bulbets. If you email me maybe we could work something out. Signet

Apparently someone added some new spam to an OLD thread (which has obviously been removed.) Wow, I mean old. Glad the spam's removed, and how cool to see such an old discussion still kicking around. It's even formatted differently. (Putting a fake email addy so this post doesn't cause me to get MORE spam.) My favorite lilies are Lycoris and the Asiatics, like Stargazer.