At 10:16 AM 12/22/2004 -0800, Don Mahoney wrote: >Last year it had 10 or 12 flowers, I have it in a deep 10" clay pot in half >sand and half peat and it gets liquid fertilzer 3 or 4 times during the >growing season. They are really suseptible to frost and I've lost every one >I've left out when it gets below 30 F. Don Mahoney Richmond, Ca. Plants growing in pots are (or should be known as) notoriously less hardy than their congeners growing in the ground. Even plants which survive brutally cold conditions in the ground will often die during an overnight freeze when growing in a small pot above ground, particularly if the pot does not touch the ground. I was reminded of this earlier this week when the first really cold temperatures of the winter arrived. Overnight it suddenly went from comfortably cold to 11 degrees F. For the most part I was prepared, but a big pot of Disporopsis fuscopicta on the ground looks pretty sad now. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where Oxalis braziliensis is blooming on the light table near some newly germinated eighteen-year-old seed of Ipomoea tricolor Wedding Bells and newly germinated ten-year-old seed of Tropaeolum peregrinum. >