I have seen this species growing on "Seven Mile Hill" in Mendocino County, well into the frost and snow zone, though nothing like Central New York, especially this year. I would think it would need a cool greenhouse to have a chance in his location. Randy From all over but now in Seattle, Washington On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Gastil Gastil-Buhl <gastil.buhl@gmail.com>wrote: > Our friends in snow country must be tired of all that snow because this is > the second request in one day of how to grow a warmer climate bulb in a > cold climate. This was a question to our contact form. He will watch the > list to see the answers so please reply to the list. > > > Michael Tongate wrote: > >> The students at the local school had a bulb sale. My wife bought some > Dichelostemma (Firecracker). I have read that this is a west coast native. > I live in central New York. How well will it do in my climate? Should I > even try? Do I have to do any thing special? It is an interesting plant. I > have never seen it before. I would appreciate any information that you > might have about it. Thank you for your help. > > He has already seen the PBS wiki page for this species here: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > --