Crocosmia lucifer

	Gene's posts about browning Croscomia foliage brings to mind the big
question:  What makes this gorgeous plant happy?
	  I have fallen in love with the brilliant dainty striking red
blooms, but I have had mixed luck with the plants overwintering here in zone
5. 	One winter I had one live through, and I thought it was because it
was planted in a raised scree bed with very good drainage. But that didn't
work the next year ... 
	Then I tried from tubers, but most of them didn't live through the
winter and the ones that did are still very small so won't bloom this year
and are in too much shade in order to protected from winter wet ... 
	This year I bought one as a small plant, put it in the scree bed,
and it bloomed nicely (but briefly because of lots of humidity, I think) and
then the foliage turned completely brown ...
	Once I also tried buying a big plant in a pot (at Lowes!) in the
early spring, but it was a wet spring and it rotted not long after being
planted in the ground.  Yet out in Oregon where my sister lives and it rains
a LOT, croscosmia are practically weeds. BUT, it sounds as though they
thrive in dry hot Southern California for some folks on this list.
	So--please--someone tell me what they really want--these blazing red
beauties--if they are to live and bloom in zone 5?

Susan and David in Urbana, Illinois, zone 5b

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