The bulbs I obtained from Mcguires were not virused.No one I know of,in the USA, has received virused bulbs from Mcguires. I know of some having the mosaic virus existent in their bulb populations before the first group purchase,including myself.Having a bulb from Mcguires exhibit mosaic in that environment is a circumstance in which the evidence cannot be conclusional.No matter how hard you try,it is impossible to keep vectors of mosaic from infecting isolated plants.Only a multiple doored entry,chamber poison, gas chamber, or heat chamber entry to a closed green house would provide that level of isolation. In a post on this forum, someone stated that his beautiful seedlings were all infected with a virus he got from Mcguire bulbs. I was alarmed to a degree,but did, and still do, remain dubious of his claims,for two reasons.I have never seen,nor have I ever heard of a virus exhibited in Papilio.He wrote that his papilio was infected.He also provided no pictures of any plant having virus,large enough with good enough resolution to determine anything but flower beauty,with no virus evident in the blooms. I believe one person asked him for better pictures for evidence,which he did not do,nor did he reply to.If this had occurred in the USA,in most places he would have been paying large sums of money to the Mcguires,if he could not prove his claims. I hope the Mcguires don't have a virus problem. Many South African and European bulb farmers do. Destroying the reputation of a business is a serious matter. I have a file of numerous specimens of mosaic on hippeastrum on photo bucket,under npublici.I would list the url,but GW probably would erase my post. Del

Ego - Here's a pic of my Tiara from two years ago. After five years it's stayed fairly small (which I like in my smaller city garden) at about 3.5 x 3.5. It's a very neat, thick, symetrically mounded bush (esp. for a serrata). As you can see from this picture too it tends to be a bit more than just a lacecap, with a nice solid ring of flowers with the occasion extra sterile flower thrown in through the center. Thre's also a nice quality about the sterile flowers where the petals are held very apart and the flower is very flat, it's almost like they're cut out of paper. The flowers can almost cover the entire bush. As you can see too the foiliage seems to be inbetween what you'd expect for a serrata and a macro, it's a very deep green leaf. One thing I like is that here in GA where EVERYTHING tends to go so blue with the soil chemistry Tiara keeps a very pretty sort of pinkish lavender. You can see in this picture, the Lady in Red in the foreground with the light blue, the Greyswood behind it with the darker blue, then further back at the top of the picture in the background is the Tiara with the distinct pinkish lavender. I would think in more neutral soils it might tend to be very pink. I like to try a lot of different varieties and have about 30 or so, but Tiara is one of my favorites.

Stacy, it is under "advice" then garden Web forums. Or just look for a square with a picture and garden Web forums written at the bottom. after using the app on a tablet and the mobile version of the website, I prefer the mobile version over the app. the mobile app sucks. Well, for our purposes anyway.

Tracy and others- I reached out to Houzz regarding your dilemma as I've seen the same question come up before here. This is the response I received from my contact. Hi @tedbixby, after checking with the related team, the Q/A UI was removed intentionally because of the low usage and also the low responses by the vendor/seller.