I don't think any of us experience perfect growing conditions.? I live in the Sonoran desert where?I grow mostly arid adapted plants and even they suffer from the harsher than?habitat?conditions here.? We have been below freezing?in the winter and hovering near 120 some?summers with one hundred eight degrees "normal".? I have lived in six states and there are both challenges and successes no matter where you grow. ? Celeste Gornick Mark Mazer wrote " summer comes and high temps and high humidity and high titers of fungi and bacteria play havoc with many an accession." Yep, Mark, that's why I call my garden the fusarium pit during the summer. Jim McKenney