Rosemary wrote: > Lucinda: I wish I could *find* stock. Every year, I try to find stock here. > Every year, the nurserys tell me that our weather is too hot and humid - > that they don't even order stock because it doesn't thrive here. Is this > true? Does stock need cool and dry? Stock definitely poops out here in Atlanta (zone 7b). It's not worth the effort for the pitiful showing it makes here. I'm a zone warmer than you, Rosemary, but I have a hunch your humidity and heat will do a number on stock where you are, too. I don't know if it would work as a Fall-planted bedding plant.....you may get freezing temps too soon. Dunno. Catharine.