Thanks Jane and other respondents I'm cleaning out a bed and was hoping to find a protocol to hold them till spring when new area will be ready. I think I'll take some of them and put into clean fine sand and hold at a cool temp in my strat cooler. And observe how it goes. Frit pudica does quite well here in our well drained sandy soil and pnw winter/summer conditions. I've noticed major differences between seed sources of shrubs I propagate and their performance in Western Washington. I wonder if same is true for these bulbs Rich H