I am a bit confused. Did you purchase blooming flowers that were in a pot? Or, have the bulbs been in your yard for at least one growing season? Or what? If you just purchased the bulbs, then no dividing is necessary (or appropriate). After they have been in the ground for one year, you can dig them, split apart the bulbs (should be several 'daughters') and replant at the same depth. Jim

blakekr- I live in Western NY State. I planted saffron this last year - not enough to amount to much but I'm a plant junkie and I find I learn alot about a plant just by growing it. I'm not sure how it will fair through the winter - that is yet to be seen, but it did sprout and has held its leaves through the winter. I would really go with what ksrogers said. Try near to your house, on the most sheltered side. Even though you are in Zone 5B your property will have micro-climates in it where it is warmer or colder. This can bump the hardiness Zone in those locations up or down respectively. Those spots are pretty easy to find this time of year - it is generally where you feel warmer or colder around your place. I read once about people in Alaska locating a flower garden over their septic system just to get a bit of a micro-climate bump from the relative warmth of the waste water. While I'm not suggesting you do that, it illustrates how people use those spots to stretch what is possible in their zone. A few saffron bulbs aren't that costly to try it out and see if it works for you. I bought the bulbs I got at my local garden center/nursery. They carried them with the other fall planted bulbs. Just make very sure to look for Crocus sativus which is the saffron crocus. It was much cheaper than buying saffron bulbs from the catalog herb places. Good luck! FataMorgana

Hi there! If you're not familiar with Stemma (a pdf-magazine), I recommend that you get those at the "other" hoya forum. Great resource with lots of information and well written. Unfortunately it's discontinued, but there are quite a few issues available for download anyway. In Stemma 3:1 there is a review of a book titled "The Genus Hoya". It covers about 120 species of Hoya. If you speak German I would recommend "Hoya" by Surisa Somadee and Jens Kühne. It covers about 200 species. The books by Dale Kloppenburg and Ann Wayman I don't have any personal experience of. Kami

Yes thank you, I tried all these options. They could only turn up the Westfall or Mariano versions and it's not either of them. It must be pretty obscure which is why I came here, I thought maybe someone here might know it. It was only a 1980's publication. Thanks for your help, I'll keep looking. Luisa