Mike: We have tried for years to grow tigridia from Dutch sources with no survivability. When I was visiting growers in Holland, they blamed the lack of hardiness on virus, but I haven't been able to confirm this and wonder if it's not just genetics. Finally, about 10+ years ago, we got plants grown from wild collected seed from Yucca Do Nursery. These have survived and flowered for the last decade. We occasionally offer them as does Yucca Do. Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent Michael Mace wrote: > Mark wrote: > > >>> ANY specie of Tigridia, >>> > > If you're interested in Tigridia, one of the best sources of information is > a monograph written by Elwood Molseed in the late 1960s. You may be able to > find it in a university research library, and it's worth looking for. Those > flowers are extremely weird and interesting. There are some good photos on > the PBS wiki, but they do not begin to capture the diversity of the genus. > > http://flowershots.net/tigridia%20tepozatlana.html… > > I tried to raise a number of them here in California, but did not have good > luck keeping them alive -- they want winter dry and summer wet, and my > climate gives them the opposite. Keeping them wet in summer was easy, but > dry in winter was hard to do without a lot of pot-hauling. So > unfortunately, I do not have anything to offer in trade. > > I was about to tell you that Southwestern Native Seeds was a great source > for Tigridia seed, but I checked their website and it looks like they no > longer collect in Mexico. That's very disappointing. You might want to > contact them and see if they are planning to do anything in Mexico in the > future. > > Does anyone know of another source for Tigridia seed? > > Mike > San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > >