Hi all, I've never mastered the trick of growing Babiana here. All I've tried have been winter growing species; are there summer-growing species? It surely must require a greenhouse in cold climates, but even in my greenhouse they do not do well. I have tried several babianas, from corms as well as from seed. To this day, I've never seen one bloom, and most slowly waste away. My last pot of Babiana is headed for the compost pile unless someone can tell me what the magic ingredient is in growing them here. Jim Shields in central Indiana At 09:35 PM 4/14/03 -0700, you wrote: >Dear Mary Sue, > >Various Babianas grow very well here in So. CA - in the ground - in almost >full sun. There are many growing at the UCI Arb at various places . I do >not know enough about them to know about their "survival" rate in the >"colder" regions. > >Doug ************************************************* 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