Hi all, I am trying to grow Moraea huttonii outdoors here. It has survived one winter outdoors (2001-2002) and I'm waiting to see what it did this past winter (2002-2003). That is not long enough for it to have bloomed outdoors. Grown in a 2-gal pot in the greenhouse, it blooms at about 12 inches height and has a small flower. Panayoti Kelaidas grows it and some other Moraea successfully outdoors in the Denver Botanic Garden, but it is a lot drier there in winter than here! The winters in Denver may also not be cold for so long at a time as they sometimes are here. I've tried Moraea alticola, M. huttonii, M. galpinii, and M. huttonii in the greenhouse and outdoors. I suspect that M. galpinii is going to turn out to be better suited to my climate than the others, but I'm still trying various methods and locations. Transplanting M. alticola from its seedling container to anywhere is generally a nearly fatal operation. Separating a pot of Moraea seedlings has so far been 100% fatal in my hands. More later. Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) At 08:29 PM 4/8/03 -0500, you wrote: >Dear all; > Does anyone grow this plant and can comment on its hardiness? >It looks sort of like an odd Iris pseudacorus and gets about 4 ft >tall in Kew. > > Appreciate your thoughts. Jim W. >-- >Dr. James W. Waddick >8871 NW Brostrom Rd. >Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 >USA >Ph. 816-746-1949 >E-fax 419-781-8594 > >Zone 5 Record low -23F > Summer 100F + ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. +1-317-896-3925 Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP