Tony, are your plants raised from seed by yourselves? Did you note how many survived vs froze? I've been the opinion that any given batch of seed may habour a few seedlings capable of adapting to climatic extremes. This is very interesting. At those temperatures, I cound grow them in Cologne, no problem! How are they with winter wet? Or is the rockery the solution! There are often Sinningias available in Europe as cool-house house plants. I'm gonna have to keep my eyes open. Jamie V. Cologne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Avent" <tony@plantdel.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Sinningias Alberto: We grow Sinningia selovii and S. tubiflora here in NC in our full sun rock scree. They have been in several years and have endured 9 degrees F (-13C) with no problem (no mulch or snow cover). We also grow S. 'Tante', which is an intermediate hybrid. We plan to put in another 30+ species this year for trials. This was quite a surprise to us, but these seem far hardier than their origin would indicate. At 06:29 PM 4/10/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Dear John: > Don't. They will get frozen even in zone 9. The hardier is S. >tubiflora but always grows in frost free areas in the wild. >Regards >Alberto > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: >http://messenger.yupimsn.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, NC 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdel.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 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php