Plant in sun or part shade in a well-drained soil and water regularly to occasionally - regular summer water keeps it evergreen. It is hardy to about 20 degrees F. A nice small container plant and useful in the rock garden. It is evergreen when cultivated in temperate climates.

Nerine masoniorum comes from the Eastern Cape of South Africa where it is considered to be a critically endangered species due to degradation of its habitat and an extremely limited distribution from the area that was called Republic of Transkei before being reincorporated back into the Eastern Cape state. The name for the genus is named after Nerine, a guardian sea nymph and the specific epithet is thought to honor both Marianne Mason, a plant collector who first collected this Nerine species in the eastern Cape in the late 1920s and her brother Edward Mason who collected with her. We first received this plant in 1983 from M. Nevin Smith's Wintergreen Nursery as Nerine masonorum and grew it until 2010. We still have a small patch of it growing under the large Coral Tree (Erythrina x sykesii) in front of our sales office that surprises people when what they thought was a grass planting is suddenly covered with the beautiful and delicate flowers. 

The information about Nerine masoniorum that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.