Dear Nancy, We are pleased to have you join our group and thank you for introducing yourself. Welcome. It will be quite interesting to hear your experiences. It sounds like you are a bit colder than Kathy S. but otherwise your climate sounds similar. Your rainfall is a lot like mine, a little less, but the same time of the year, but you are much colder in winter and hotter in summer. I find some of the California bulbs from hotter summers and colder winters I can still grow here, but I wonder if the opposite is true for coastal bulbs. Do they thrive or survive where you live? Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers