Randy, I have grown this plant for years and surprisingly it does well at much lower elevations than it haunts in nature, at about 1000ft in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mts. From winter to early spring they are 'dead pots' and they are just waking up now. I use a mix of clean sand and peat with some charcoal and find they do not like stale old soil or pots that are too large relative to the root system. The key is to not let the soil dry out at all. Mine stand in a shallow tray of water but previously they were better off in regular pots that got watered on sight, even if the soil seemed moist. Provide moderately bright light. They seem to like a warm summer so that could be an issue where you are. Cheers, Dylan Hannon Los Angeles CA On 24 March 2012 10:54, Randall P. Linke <randysgarden@gmail.com> wrote: > On the topic of lily's, does anyone have experience growing this one, the > lemon lily. > > The first time it bloomed our favorite cat ate the flowers. I doubt that > has anything to do with it, but it has seemed to diminish every year since > and so far this year it is the only lily I have that has not emerged. It > was my wife's favorite, grew wild where she grew up, and I would like to > get more but I want to be sure I know how to care for it properly. > > I currently live in the Monterey Bay region of California, USDA zone 9. > > Randy Linke > > * > * > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. — John Milton, *Areopagitica: A speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England*, 1644