Dear Mark W., John I. and all, I am always intrigued to learn how plants adapt in different environments. So it is interesting to read that John Ingram's Tritonias are coming back in a cold climate when they are probably finished blooming in Southern California. Here in Northern California where the leaves emerge in October for those from the South African winter rainfall area my Tritonias have been very unhappy with the record rainfall in April and many of them are diseased. I have noticed that in other years when we got a lot of rain late. They definitely were happier when I grew them in the central valley where there was less rain and I'd think they would prefer Southern California too. I have one pot of Tritonia securigera which has been quite beautiful, but I brought it undercover to wait out some of the worst storms. John have you tried any of the summer rainfall Tritonia species in Ohio? I'd expect them to do better. It was interesting to see corms from Ann Marie in Southern California in the BX of plants that haven't gone dormant here yet and in the case of Homerias will still be blooming if the weather stays like it is possibly into June. Thanks Mark for clarifying about your Nerines. That was very interesting. Allium uniflorum here blooms anytime from April to June. Every year when I try to plan hikes ahead of time around when the flowers will appear it is a gamble as so much depends on when it rains and how much. I expect we will have bulbs flowering well into summer this year as the ground will remain wet and some things will wait for more sunshine. So it will just depend on the individual microclimates. Coastal wildflowers in California are usually spring bloomers into summer (depending on the weather.) Mountain wildflowers wait for the snows to melt which will be very late this year so they are summer bloomers. There are a few fall blooming plants but since in much of the state the rain stops in spring, you are more likely to see berries in our fall than flowers. As Diana has mentioned in the past there are thunder storms in the mountains and sometimes southern California gets a tropical storm in the summer, but where I live when we finally get our last rain (April to May most years), it won't rain again until September or October. Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers