John, we saw this one in the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, during the 2012 MGS meeting in South Australia. I got seeds and tried to grow them under glass in the UK, giving them appropriate heat, but though they reached a decent size there simple wasn't enough light to bring them into flower, and the heat (we heated to 10 deg C) wasn't enough to keep them going through the winter in the hope of getting this annual to flower in the following May. I think in the Med there would be hope of flowering them outdoors in Israel and perhaps at low altitudes in Cyprus, but probably not even in Greece, let alone Italy or France or Spain.