This must be another instance of my magic conditions allowing me to succeed where I should fail, but I've had Frit. eduardii in the garden for may years now - probably 8-10 or so - and it's done splendidly well, blooming beautifully and, this year, even setting seed (we had a warm spell when it bloomed, and consequently bee activity). I actually have two groupings of it, one at the top of a slope, the other part way down on a different slope. Late frosts/freezes are always a threat - this year they spent two nights enveloped in Remay - but the worst an unprotected freeze has ever done is disfigure the plants and flowers (which is why I now cover). I haven't lifted, split, or otherwise molested them in all these years, nor have I fertilized. My soil is generally a clayey loam, perhaps slightly acidic (it varies). As more people have heard than want to by now, the distinguishing feature of my climate here is excellent winter snow cover (totaling 10-12 feet per season). Oswego is fairly far north in the US: latitude is 43°28'N (longitude 076°30'W ). On a different topic, I've grown Alstroemeria presliana ssp. australis here for many years as well (probably 12) - it does beautifully in the open garden (no south wall), and it isn't invasive like A. aurea, which I keep trapped between the south-facing foundation of the house and the adjacent driveway. When I got seeds of that one from a garden at Cornell U, long ago, the gardener said "sure, you can have some, but you'll be sorry!" And to some extent he was right. But it's hard not to love them when they bloom. Ellen Ellen Hornig Seneca Hill Perennials 3712 County Route 57 Oswego NY 13126 USA http://www.senecahillperennials.com/