Amen. Panyoti K. at Denver B.G. can grow any number of things in their cold dry winter climate that turn to mush here. Boyce Tankersley On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com> wrote: > The replies so far have all been focused on temperature. That is certainly > an important consideration. However - I think soil type / drainage is at > least equally important. > > My New Jersey garden has a heavy clay-ish soil. No idea why Fritillaria > imperialis is happy and multiplying by offsets but let's just ignore it for > the nonce. > > My Connecticut garden of happy memory had that mythical high organic, > moist but well drained gardener's holy grail and everything grew > wonderfully well. > > My opinion - cold wet soil will kill geophytes that would have survived > equally cold but better drained soil. > > Judy in New Jersey where today is - again - overcast with rain, rain, rain > (at least it doesn't need shoveling) and the first galanthus and eranthis > are in bloom > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >