Dear Norm, It would be helpful for you to include the species for some of your seeds which are not all winter growing, summer dormant. Some of the genera you listed have summer growing, winter growing, and mostly evergreen species. Hesperoxiphion peruviana which is probably the one you have is another one to start in spring as it is a summer grower. Don't forget that Nhu and Mike Mace have created some wonderful information about growing from seed on the wiki. Nhu took on the project of adding information I had saved that others had offered over the years and adding it to the wiki page. This took him a very long time. Please see: <http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…> Mary Sue