Hi Adam: No direct heat ducts heat the basement. It just gets whatever residual is available from the heated floors above. Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 tel: 847-835-6841 fax: 847-835-1635 email: btankers@chicagobotanic.org -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Adam Fikso Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 12:50 PM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla peruviana Boyce? You did it? How warm is your basement?. Mine came one year but not afterwards. Maybe I'll try it again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Boyce Tankersley" <btankers@chicagobotanic.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:25 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla peruviana > Hi Barbara: > > Planted in proximity to a heated basement wall it has overwintered in > Chicago and flowered. > > Boyce Tankersley > Director of Living Plant Documentation > Chicago Botanic Garden > 1000 Lake Cook Road > Glencoe, IL 60022 > tel: 847-835-6841 > fax: 847-835-1635 > email: btankers@chicagobotanic.org > -----Original Message----- > From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org > [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Barbara Weintraub > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:16 PM > To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Subject: [pbs] Scilla peruviana > > I recently bought a bunch of geophytes in a fit of enthusiasm. One of > them is Scilla peruviana. Has anyone grown it in the ground in a colder > climate? > > - Barbara Weintraub > Santa Fe, New Mexico > 6700 feet elevation > (Think high desert) > nominally zone 5b > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/