My Scilla peruviana has been thriving for years here in the Bay Area. It’s due to plain dumb luck. It was many years ago – I saw some sad looking, already sprouting, unwanted bulbs at OSH. Feeling sorry for them, I took them home and potted them up. I knew nothing about how to grow them. They flowered late February, and I kept watering them until the leaves yellowed in June. Next October green sprouts appeared, so I started watering again. They have flowered every year since. The regimen is simple: while green, they get watered; otherwise not. I water them with a weak solution of fertilizer and micro nutrients. I do keep them in a mostly sunny spot. This spring they had a poor flowering and did not produce seed, but that may be because I was away and unable to care for them. David Ehrlich