Justin wrote about growing winter-growing South African bulbs in a raised bed in a summer-rainfall climate (Woodville, Texas.) > I was thinking that a raised bed would be easier to maintain. I hope that > most of the winter growing bulbs that I have (mainly glads and moraea) > would do well enough. We do get some summer rains but a raised bed would > be easy to cover. I think you can get pretty hot in the summer. From my experience, some winter-growing bulbs will die with just one summer rainfall during high heat. So you would need to cover the bed but still allow good air circulation at the surface of the soil. Leo Martin Phoenix Arizona USA