Hey Andrew, if u already have your answer oops but i am working through the emails step by step haha......... They grow in my area of Australia, SE Queensland, I know Sandiago well, I had a girlfriend near u & have visited, i think they would grow easilly there.....Conditions are similar to here, it can be a bit dry at times & warm pretty much all year. We do have a short very cold snap in winter & a bit more rain fall than u Best of luck Steven On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:10 PM, AW <awilson@avonia.com> wrote: > One of those ads popped up today from e-Bay telling me about a beautiful, > blue-flowered lily that somebody wanted to sell. It sounded pretty good but > no Latin name for the species was provided. A little work later, I narrowed > it down to possibly Ixiolirion tataricum. The epithet seems to indicate it > comes form central Asia. For this area, with a nearly frostless climate, > that might not be a good choice. I looked it up in the Wiki and became more > or less convinced that I had the right name. The Wiki did not indicate in > which climate zones the bulbs would be suited. I'm sure somebody among us > grows the attractive bulb. Would it grow here? > > Andrew > San Diego > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >