Dennis Szeszko wrote <SNIP>Tigridia pavonia needs a dry winter rest to replicate the natural conditions that it faces during the dry season in Mexico.............<SNIP> I have a patch of about 12 corms in my garden. They were purchased about 3 years ago from a local garden centre so I assume that they were Dutch stock. Each year they have given me an excellent show of flowers and always set seed. My climate is wet (roughly 950mm per annum), winter and summer (it's pouring down with rain as I write this and has been, on and off for the last week although the previous week we had wall to wall sun with temperatures exceeding 30C), and during our exceptionally cold winter this year they have survived temperatures as low as -8C. When I bought them I was advised to lift them in autumn and dry them off and re-plant them in late spring. Needless to say they have never been lifted. They should be in flower during the next 14 days. Dutch suppliers breed 'em hard!! David Nicholson in the County of Devon, South West England. Zone 9b