Gastil I came in a few hours late, but I wanted to encourage you about your Moraea polystachya. I grew this species for years in Phoenix, Arizona and it was part of the collection at the Desert Botanical Garden there. It was entirely summer dormant there, and came out beautifully, in fact abundantly, after a long, and virtually dry summer. This one of the most reliable, and dependable, bulbs for that area and seemed to me to grow in almost any condition including extreme dryness through the summer. Good luck Mary Irish now in Castroville, Texas On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Michael Mace <michaelcmace@gmail.com>wrote: > Gastil wrote: > > >> I did not irrigate those all summer so they may not come back. > > Whoops, sorry, I miscommunicated. My point was that they tolerate summer > water, not that they require it all summer. Your baby bulbs are probably > fine. They'll just start growing later and (if they are blooming size) > bloom for a shorter time. I have a friend who never watered his until late > October. They grew fine but rarely bloomed. > > I keep most of mine dry from the time they go dormant until the start of > August. Then I start watering them. That gets them blooming in > October/November. > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >