Hi, In message <CAELwaKgh48BUEUGiVPj7i-n4NkDk4tkEwenpQDkgFr=7WTsMFw@mail.gmail.com>, Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com> writes >Nerines are not keen on being bare rooted, keep it potted. N. bowdenii is >hardy to about minus 20 c in the ground, less in a pot. Would another way of putting this be - Nerine bulbs will not stand temperatures less than zero degrees C, but often the temperature under the ground and under feet of snow does not reach zero degrees. Corollary - you can easily kill them on the surface of a pot even if the temperature only goes one or two degrees below zero. I often think a temperature logger that one could bury in Autumn and retrieve in Spring would be interesting in revealing the actual temperatures bulbs experience. -- David Pilling email: david@pilling.demon.co.uk web: http://www.davidpilling.net/