Your pictures are just beautiful!! I agree that Flamenco Queen is a beauty and yours appears to be extremely happy! I have one that is trying to send up two buds but they appear stuck half way out and haven't moved in several weeks. I'm so disappointed but seeing yours gives me some hope!!

Donna

Thank you for both your kind words. There are three offsets that should hopefully fill out nicely this summer. Donna, I hope your Flamenco queen manages to recover and put on a show! Is it a new bulb?

No, it's an older bulb several years old; actually, these are offsets as the mother bulb was devoured by the NBF larvae but the offsets are quite large and the protruding bud looks large but it won't move any further!!

There are actually two buds from 2 different bulbs but one is larger but I don't think it's feeling as firm as before. For the life of me, I don't know why this happens. Actually, it happens to me quite a bit!!

Donna

Urgh, the dreaded bulb fly. I fortunately have only had one run-in with this vile creature thus far and I hope it stays that way.

Hm, that's really odd. I don't know why it would do that either. If the bud was just poking out, I might have guessed that a narrow neck was preventing it from squeezing through. I hope your flamenco queen springs into action again!

What it looks like now with the last two scales blooming at once.