Dear Diane, My Lachenalias are growing outside, but in pots on benches with a fiberglass roof over the benches. When it rains here, the wind usually blows, sometimes very fiercely and the pots don't remain totally sheltered from the rain therefore, but they do get some protection. And I have frost cloth I can roll down if an arctic chill is predicted. Normally where I live although it does get to freezing, those temperatures are in the early morning and don't last very long. I used to grow Lachenalias in raised beds which also worked fine except in 1990 when it was unusually cold, but when I redid those beds I didn't replant any Lachenalias since I had acquired a few pots that were virused which spread to some of my others and I wanted to monitor all the others to be sure they were all right so left them out of the beds I redid. I took this picture of Lachenalia rubida on December 10. But it is still looking really nice and festive. http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/files/… Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers
