Hello, Bob. May I first urge you to share as many of your treasures as possible with Diana Chapman. You surely know her. I am a grower of special bulbs but I am in rainy zone 6 in BC, north of you, and would have to shelter your Moraea in a greenhouse, at least till I got a sense of how to adjust their drainage. For what it's worth, I grow many Calochortus outdoors, in the rain, in sand. I shelter them only when they are about to bloom, because their floral tissues are so easily damaged, as are those of Crocus, Colchicum and the like. I can think of a number of private collectors who will speak up. Perhaps you will favor them. Nonetheless, after Diana, despite my different climate I am a reasonable candidate to receive starts of your plants because I have a good record of conserving stocks, whether or not I sell them. So many growers drop a stock when it can't earn its keep. I have all kinds of refugees in my beds, garden, greenhouse. Many have been dropped by the people I got them from. :-)) You can see my website at http://www.hillkeep.ca/ . I am just north of the border with WA. This year we are basically not selling, just growing and planting because my father is not well. My mother is 80, he is 90. I am 59 and have at least a couple of decades of feisty growing ahead of me. With best wishes, Paige Woodward paige@hillkeep.ca http://www.hillkeep.ca/ ---- Original Message ----- From: <robertwerra@pacific.net> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Cc: "Robert J Werra" <robertwerra@pacific.net> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 9:54 PM Subject: [pbs] Free moraea corms > To all, I fell in love with winter growing moraeas 19 years ago, first > with the peacock moreas, then with the fugacious ones which I love even > more.I have been faithful, well pretty faithful except with some dalliance > with gladiolas, daubenyas, calochorti and a few other charmers. I grow 30+ > moraeas. However, I am 76 yrs. old and it is time to pass some moraeas on > to younger, equally passionate and faithful moraea lovers, preferably in a > warm to hot mediteranean climate in the U.S. If there are any out there, > please let me know privately on my Email. I will be gone for 2 weeks. It > is not too late to plant them. I will have seed and some other material > for our regular PBS exchange later. Bob Werra in inland No. Calif. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >