I was surprised yesterday at some potted Frits in the greenhouse which are emerging, despite being virtually ignored for a year, and pushed aside until the snow melts enough so that I can run them out to the compost pile. Now, they are emerging, and have buds. I am always amazed at how bulbs react around the globe at the same time. Along with two pots of F. stenanthera emerging with thick buds, there is also pot of F. raddeana which is now showing two stems. OF all of the Frits I keep ( which isn't that many!), it's F. sewerzowii. which performs best in the variable conditions of my cold (and sometimes hot) greenhouse in Massachusetts. Matt Mattus USDA Zone 5b On 3/1/09 2:26 PM, "Jane McGary" <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote: > Fritillarias here in the cold frame that are in bloom are F. > raddeana, F. gibbosa, F. stenanthera, F. latifolia, F. armena, F. > euboeica, and F. striata. I'm very pleased that the measures I went > to to protect the plants in December, when the temperature dropped to > 14 F (minus 10 C) were effective. F. striata, from southern > California, emerges very early and has in the past been damaged, > though not killed, by cold snaps. > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/