"Has anyone succeeded with Eranthis pinnatifida?" Indeed, yes. A few plants are flowering now in the garden; it has been here for about 9 years and I've also raised seedlings from fresh seed to flowering size in about 4 years. They are tricky - keeping them through their first dormancy is the problem, not too dry but not too wet. Eranthis stellata is also flowering at the moment, that also presents the same problems from seed but I do have a few 3 year-old seedlings. They are both beautiful. Last year's seed collections were scratched into the soil around the parents in the hope that they would do OK there. The only Eranthis I've germinated from stored 'old' seed is E. longistipitata - which is supposed to grow in more arid areas anyway so might be expected to have longer-lived seeds. Best, John John T Lonsdale PhD 407 Edgewood Drive, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, USA Home: 610 594 9232 Cell: 484 678 9856 Fax: 801 327 1266 Visit "Edgewood" - The Lonsdale Garden at http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/ USDA Zone 6b