A short story. I used to have a working relationship with the Agriculture department at the college where I teach in Yuma. I had permission to stash a large number of dormant bulbs and Dudleyas, still in their pots, in an air-conditioned greenhouse while my family and I were out of town one summer. (It was the summer before we bought our house and I could finally start planting in the ground after years of carrying all my plants from place to place.) When we returned, I discovered that the air conditioning was turned off and the bulbs had been cooked in their pots like potatoes. (This is Yuma, remember.) Everything was dead -- except for the Drimia maritima and, interestingly, Oxalis drummondii. The sea squills have bulb tunics like kevlar. I have them now growing in the open garden here in Yuma. Shawn Pollard -------------------------------------------- On Sun, 6/5/16, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote: Subject: [pbs] Drimia maritima To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Sunday, June 5, 2016, 10:00 AM Dear Friends, I am not known for easy or sane projects, but I hope I can some help on HOW EXTREME I can go with Drimia maritime here in Kansas City Zone 5/6. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/