At 10:09 11-07-2005, Andrew Broome wrote: >Jim said... > > > Has anyone out there who gardens on the east coast of North > > America had long term success with either Oxalis adenophylla > > or O. enneaphylla as garden plants? > >I've had no long term success with any of the 'alpine' South American >species even here in my part of NZ where it rarely gets near 30C in the >summer and only a few frosts per winter. They certainly don't like the heat. > >You *might* try the hybrid, Ox. x 'Ione Hecker' since this *seems* a >little more tolerant at least the one clone I've kept alive for nearly 2 >years now after several attempts. > >They're such attractive plants, I wish I could keep them alive but I've >pretty much given up on trying them here under my conditions. > >Andrew. http://freewebtown.com/oxalis/ > I wonder if people with too hot summers might not grow such plants indoors, just as people with too cold winters grow other plants indoors (me, for instance.) I say this, and yet my livingroom has a horrible temperature these days, now over 29C! It's because the house is built of limestone bricks which accumulate heat and don't release it very readily. When I wake up in the morning or in the middle of the night, the temperature is over 27C. However most Americans have air conditioning and these heat-abhorring plants might do very well inside. Carol