Mary Sue Ittner a *crit : So there is at least one species and a rather spectacular one that I can grow in my Mediterranean climate with pleasant (not hot) summer temperatures, > Zephyranthes atamasca. Dear Mary Sue and all, In this context I cannot resist telling my Z candida experience. I hve a lot of this species here which were normally irrigated with other summer growers. One year I did not irrigate in July-August. We had the end of August a very heavy rain, 10 days later a superb massive flowering appeared in the Z candida planting of which you can see the image in the Wiki. My conclusion is that this species is very suitable for a mediterranean climat as it needs a marked dry (summer) period to flower well. I uploaded the image but I don't know how to show the URL and where to edit comments. I a sorry to be so slow to learn. Salutations -- Lauw de Jager BULB'ARGENCE, 30300 Fourques, France Site: http://www.bulbargence.com/