Hi folks, I think enough opinions have been said on this topic and we may allow this thread to rest in peace. Let's get back to discussing geophytes. :) I'm away from my Berkeley home base for a while, spending some time here in the Great Frozen North of Minnesota. At the moment, temps fluctuate around 0F (-17C) so no Mediterranean-type winter geophytes will survive. This autumn I saw a fruiting of Clintonia borealis, a true cold hardy species. I believe the local woods also host Sanguinaria canadensis, a really elegant spring flower that I encountered once in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. I longed to see those again and I think I'll get a chance to see them when the snow melts, whenever that happens to be (hopefully March and not May). Nhu PBS President On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, The Silent Seed <tylus_seklos@aol.com>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Anderson <banderson805@gmail.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Tue, Feb 11, 2014 1:22 pm > Subject: Re: [pbs] OMG >