Propagation
Separate bulblets from old bulb and grow in nursery for 2 years. Lift bulbs after foliage has died, clean and store in cool position in dry peat moss. Replant the bulbs from autumn-winter at a depth is 150 mm (6in). In warmer climates bulbs are not normally successful in the 2nd season. 

Culture
Cut Flowers
When cutting flowers avoid removing to many blooms from the one bulb and minimal amounts of leaves. Use a sharp knife and remove flowers in early morning or late afternoon then stand in water outside before bringing indoors.

Planting Bulbs
Place bulbs on the garden bed and space equally allowing for foliage growth then plant from the middle at a depth twice the length of the bulb moisten and fertilise at this time.  In warm regions place the bulbs in the crisper of a refrigerator for eight to 10 weeks before planting out.  Plant the bulbs in two enriched well drained, deep moist soil with pH of 7- 7.5 in a sunny wind protected position.

They have a tunicated bulb that varies in size from 100 (4in) to 120 mm (4¾in) in diameter and should be planted at a depth of 200 mm (8in) to the base of the bulb during autumn.

Botanic information
Leaf: The sessile green to glaucous-green leaves are elliptical to lanceolate and are up to 400 mm long (16in) by 100 mm (4in) wide. They have undulating-recurved margins that maybe twisted. The texture is thick and fleshy and the apex is acute. The leaves become yellow brown during early summer as they die off.

Flower: The sweetly scented large to small cyathiform flowers have a 6-segment perianth and 6-enclosed stamens with a 3-lobed stigma. The flower shape varies from cyathiform to campanulate or rotate and is held above the foliage on long scape that is up to 650mm (26in) tall and appears during spring.

Fruit: The small 3-valved elongated to elliptical ribbed capsule occurs at the top of the spent flower stem and produces numerous seeds but the fruit is normally removed during cultivation. The small seeds are viable but the plant is commonly reproduced vegetatively, to maintain true to type.