Hi Ken: Great pictures! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the Garden as well. They (western bulbs) looked better this summer, after an abnormally long and cold winter than they have during any of the previous years with more normal (and even mild for Chicago) winters. A group of us pn staff hypothesized it might be a result of the elimination of the wild swings between subfreezing and above freezing temperatures that are more typical of our winters. Winter of 2013-2014 we got cold before Thanksgiving and then stayed consistently below normal until well into April. Did not break the minus 30 F record but for a long stretch we didn't vary too far off of minus 20 degrees F. Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Ken <kjblack@pacbell.net> wrote: > Was surprised to see these Western bulbs appearing to do well in the > Midwest ... at Chicago Botanic Gardens. > > https://flickr.com/photos/amarguy/… > https://flickr.com/photos/amarguy/… > https://flickr.com/photos/amarguy/… > > Ken Blackford > San Diego, California > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >