I have followed this thread with some interest and not a little trepidation! I live on an island in the Adriatic Sea - the real Mediterranean climate and last autumn I planted 300 snowdrop bulbs under orange and mandarin trees. They all came up and I had a nice display in the spring. I was looking forward to them spreading and naturalising...... until I read about the damp conditions they need. We have had 0.8mm (0.03 of inch) rainfall since mid May. My soil temperature thermocouple, at 5cm depth, albeit in the open, not under the trees, was registering +43ºC (110ºF) and the soil is dry as far down as you can dig. But it was the same last summer and this spring my tulip, allium, crocus and other bulbs all flowered. Most are under trees. I will report back next year and tell you what happened to my snowdrops! Norman -- This week's "*Life in a Dol house*" Blog: *https://goo.gl/D0P8Iu/ <https://goo.gl/D0P8Iu/>* *Ovaj tjedan "**Život u kući Dol" **Blog: * *https://goo.gl/D0P8Iu/ <https://goo.gl/D0P8Iu/>* The natural year in Dol: : *https://goo.gl/8TxpSs/ <https://goo.gl/8TxpSs/>* The weather today in* Dol *: *https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/ <https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/> <https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/>* *Vrijeme danas u Dol: **https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/ <https://goo.gl/3aRJ2c/>* On 16 July 2017 at 18:44, penstemon <penstemon@q.com> wrote: > >Good to know, Bob -- thanks! Parts of British Columbia's interior has a > similar climate to Denver (where I lived for several years), or at least > the "wet parts of the Front Range" and I will pass on your experience to my > gardening friends in "the Interior" as we call it. > Sure. Though where I live is hardly the “wet part” of anywhere. Our little > neighborhood, on the western fringes of the Denver metro area, has received > about an inch (2.5 cm) of rain since the last week in May. (I’m not > complaining; there was a hailstorm in Denver and its northwestern suburbs > featuring tennis-ball-sized hail, in May.) > Not counting some alliums, there are about a dozen species of plants in > flower here right now, mostly natives. This suits me just fine, though I > imagine it would drive most gardeners crazy. > Bob Nold > Denver, Colorado > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > ᐧ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…