Mayo your weather looks better than mine!! I'd say go ahead and try, I wanted an early bloomer and a very late bloomer, but since I don't have lots of space to plant them I guess I'll stay like this.. or not.. who knows! But I don't have access to all the cultivars so often I find something I like and I can't find it here.
I have a ridicolous assortment LOL only 15 cultivars, and I can't even tell how they perform since I saw very few blooms until now, but we can keep in touch