> >One more thing, Arnold: you mentioned using Meconopsis cambrica as a ground >cover. Does it behave as an annual for your or as a perennial? I've had >trouble keeping the orange-flowered forms of Meconopsis cambrica here. > > > Jim: I picked up a couple of plants from Seneca Hill Perennials three or four years ago and is is now my ground cover of choice for areas below lilies. I have broadcast seed around an area under a chinese quince that has a number of lilies such as L. canadense and L. rubellum growing. The meconopsis slows down in the current weather I assume due to the heat and not the availability of moisture. It returns each year and doesn't get any special mulch other than leaving leaf litter in place during the winter. If there is an interest I can send some seed into the BX, although it is not a geophyte it seems to be a good companion for geophytes. Arnold