Here's what I'm about to try for Colchicum luteum and, should I be able to acquire another one, Iris winogradowii: after the plants enter dormancy, I'll give them a few weeks at prevailing temperatures and then try storing them in the refrigerator for the rest of the summer. The refrigerator here gets opened so many times a day that the temperature is probably in the low 40s F much of the time, if that. Has anyone else out there tried this? I would like to try this with some alpine Saxifraga, too. Maybe even experiment with pushing them into two growth/dormancy cycles per calendar year. If it works, I could go into the Eritrichium nanum and Myosotidium business! Sorry, I'm wandering far off topic. Any thoughts, anyone (about the refrigerator business, not my wandering)? Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net Montgomery County, Maryland, zone 7, where the noctifloras would be opening if I had any and it's time to close down for the day. At 06:27 PM 1/21/2004 -800, you wrote: >On 21 Jan 04 at 12:14, Jim McKenney wrote: > >> 4. Iris winogradowii: faints during the summer > >It's a mountain plant that doesn't like to go very dry in summer. >Mine never grew so well as when I had them in a large terracotta pot >plunged in sand, and rushed out every morning all summer long to pour >the cold tea from the previous morning into the pot. > >> 5. a yellow tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium aka L. tigrinum), if >> there has ever been such a thing > >I have what is supposed to be this very thing. > >-- >Rodger Whitlock >Victoria, British Columbia, Canada >"To co-work is human, >to cow-ork, bovine." >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >