Scilla peruviana (despite the name, about which there is a "confused botanist" story) is native to Spain, where it grows in the mountains at mid elevations. I grow it outdoors in Oregon, where it survives and flowers after winter temperatures in the mid-teens F. It is well adapted to dry summers, which Barbara probably does not have in New Mexico -- I believe the rains there are mostly in late summer? In the wild, I saw it growing amid shrubs and in roadside ditches, in considerable shade. Jane McGary At 06:16 PM 6/27/2010, you wrote: >I recently bought a bunch of geophytes in a fit of enthusiasm. One >of them is Scilla peruviana. Has anyone grown it in the ground in a >colder climate? > >- Barbara Weintraub >Santa Fe, New Mexico >6700 feet elevation >(Think high desert) >nominally zone 5b