Coastal Californians interested in hardiness should take a look at Nan Sterman's post-mortem of the San Diego freeze of 2007: http://pacifichorticulture.org/web-extras/69/… I don't believe she lists a single native, but I wouldn't expect any California bulbs, at least, to have suffered. On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Max Withers <maxwithers@gmail.com> wrote: > A salutary reminder from another hemisphere, Alberto. As is the great > freeze of 1972, when temperatures dropped below 30 F for 3 days > straight, and which began 40 years ago tomorrow. > > (As a native New Englander, I find such figures laughable as do, I'm > sure, many of our members from less hospitable climes, but as a > California gardner I certainly do not). > > Best, > Max > Oakland > > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Randall P. Linke <randysgarden@gmail.com> wrote: >> The occasional big freeze is what all of us here fear the most. >> >> Randy >> >> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Alberto Castillo >> <ezeizabotgard@hotmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> One of the largest bulb collections ever asembled (in Concord) was >>> exterminated by frost in 1991. >>> >>> >> -- >> * * >> A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial >> appearance of being right. - Thomas Paine --- >> * >> * >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/