2013 May 22: Up nicely and one plant is flowering. June 23: Flowering is slowing down.
2012 April 26: Five plants well up, in the past 2 or 3 days. September 15: Two plants died back early. The other 3 still have green leaves.
2011 June 1: They have been flowering beautifully. September 27: They flowered well but the plants died back early, some quite early.
2010 April 24: Most plants are about 15 cm high now. May 16: Flowering. July 2: Still some flowers.
2009 June 1: I bought 5 roots from T&T and planted them.
Each consisted of about 15 cm of woody root with, usually, 2 young shoots starting from the top.
I planted them 60 cm apart. July 4: All the roots have sprouted and some have actually flowered! August 3: Doing fine.