So glad to have you with us, Jim. Pacific is our name, but we focus on what goes in the garden; I also depend on the more hardy bulbs outside, as the tender ones won't grow outside my greenhouse. We are quite varied here in our habitats! Ipheon does well outside here also. I have had a couple of clumps of a pale blue species, unidentified by vendor, out in the dg soil where gophers and squirrels ignore them. I plan to move some clumps of Rolf Fieldler outside this spring. At 10:18 AM 1/24/2003 -0600, James W. wrote: >Oddly Pacific Bulbs are not so high on my list because of my climate and I >TRY hard to not grow tender bulbs, but I admit to weakness in growing lots >of other stuff- lots of hardy bulbs, iris (especially Asian species), >hardy herbaceous and woody plants of all sorts with a current emphasis on >Paeonia, Canna, bamboo and more. Marguerite English, Editor: 'The Bulb Garden' Gardening with bulbs and perennials at 3700 feet in the mountains of southern California. Extreme temperatures in our Mediterranean climate from 0 to 110 degrees F. Average temperatures 15 to 90 degrees F. A few days of snow in winter and a few days of extreme heat in Aug-Sept. Drought conditions seem to be changing to an 'El Nino' year. (I think that's long-hand for USDA zone 7B.)