In late winter I was the lucky recipient of many packets of stored seeds of Triteleia, Brodiaea, Dichelostemma and Bloomeria from the Robinetts, many dating back to collections in the early 90s. Rather than sow them immediately and risk a shortened growing season if they germinated immediately (which they were likely to do) I decided to refrigerate them and sow them in the fall. I figured another summer storage period was unlikely to make much difference to their viability. I sowed them about 2 weeks ago with the bulk of the other seeds I had saved over the summer or collected from my bulbs and am thrilled to report excellent germination in at least 15 collections – I found another 10 pots up this morning, and I’m sure there are more to come. Onco iris seeds are also starting to germinate, and a few cyclamen. Trillium seeds are germinating (sending down a root) from last year’s collections. Also very exciting (I’m easily excited) is germination beginning in wild-collected Allium perdulce seeds – this a crème-de-la-crème gorgeously scented pink dwarf onion from Kansas and other points ‘around there’. Cyclamen graecum and mirabile forms are incredible at the moment in the greenhouse and the Sternbergia and Colchicum are at their peak outside. Crocuses have yet to start, inside or out. All the best, John John T Lonsdale PhD 407 Edgewood Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, USA Home: 610 594 9232 Cell: 484 678 9856 Fax: 801 327 1266 Visit "Edgewood" - The Lonsdale Garden at <http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/> http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/ USDA Zone 6b