Hunterdon County, New Jersey is supposedly zone 6b. With global warming it could be zone 7. This summer, I'd even accept zone 8. My concern is not just with winter cold. It is more about summer rain. My potted rhodophiala are kept in the greenhouse on an upper shelf, given a spritz of water perhaps once a month but basically dry. When a string of rainstorms are forecast in late August or early September I move the pots outdoors and have flowers in a week. They'll return to the greenhouse with the advent of cool weather, kept watered until I see signs of "we'd rather go dormant" and let them dry off. A couple of years ago I sent bulbs to my daughter in Houston. They have had more rain than usual this summer. She tells me that her rhodophiala have leaves reaching for the sky, no flowers. What I'm doing has worked for 15 years or more. Why change what I'm doing? Judy in New Jersey where today, like yesterday, heated up into the 90s Fahrenheit. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>