Dear John, The foliage may suffer some frost damage. But the bulb, which is very much on the surface, may need some protection by a mulch. Like with Paul this species easly withstands -6-8° Provides the spot is well chosen (sunny, sheltered and well drained). Regards Lauw le 8/06/04 15:02, Paul Tyerman à ptyerman@ozemail.com.au a écrit : >> Lifting Urginea maritima for the winter would be disastrous, as it is a >> winter-growing plant from Mediterranean coasts - whence it is collected for >> export by unscrupulous bulb companies. It is extremely frost-sensitive and >> will promptly be killed by more than a degree or two of frost. >> > Well don't you DARE tell that (the frost sensitive bit) to the bulbs of it > that I grow. ;-) Maybe we here in Aus have a strain that doesn't mind > frost but my 2 bulbs of it even just took without any problem an > unseasonably early -5 followed by -6'C the two mornings over the weekend. > So many other things got hit badly as this is VERY early for that hard a > frost here and a lot of things were still only closing down for the winter > and hadn't completely hardened off (so to speak). So many plants in our > garden pulped to a certain degree that would normally easily accept -6'C > later in winter when they have prepared for it. Even with this early low > the Urginea maritima are doing just fine and not looking like they've been > damaged in the slightest. Big healthy leaves are still there, having > emerged in teh last month or so and still growing. > They went through last winter fine as well, taking -8'C as well Lauw de Jager http://www.bulbargence.com/ South of France (zone 8 Olivier)