I have a few Babiana species (disticha, pygmaea, and rubrocyanea) in a bulb frame watered in summer. B. rubrocyanea does not do well in as much cold as it gets there in winter (down to the mid-20s some winters) but the other two do; B. pygmaea flowered heavily last month, and B. disticha is beautiful right now. I assume they would not survive in the open here but I may try a few bulbs on the rock garden since they need repotting this summer. I gave some other species to my mother in California's Central Valley some years ago and they multiplied (and self-sowed) to the point of being a pest. There they withstood temperatures down to 25 F most winters, but it is much drier, and they grew well in the horrible adobe soil, which when wet has a texture similar to chewed chewing gum; somebody had tried to amend it by adding river sand, which resulted in lumps resembling chewing gum that had been tossed in the sand. She always watered everything excessively in summer, too. Obviously these are tough plants! Jane McGary Northwest Oregon