Thank you for assuming that I'm a reasonable person, Adam. I have two cold frames which I think of as my "protected" cold frames. In these I grow plants not likely to survive prolonged freezes. One frame is for plants which do not tolerate summer water, the other is for plants which tolerate summer water. The Pancratium went into the summer dry frame; I thought that was appropriate for a Mediterranean climate plant. When those plants were obtained as dry, rootless bulbs, the summer dry frame was managed as a very dry frame - obviously it was too dry for the newly planted Pancratium. I think they never had a chance to form a root system. Jim McKenney