Does anyone grow Zauschneria?

I fancy growing these for late summer and autumn colour - advice please.

 

Zauschneria californica? Or to be more accurate it is now Epilobium canum.
I never had any luck overwintering it, but I know more now.
It needs the protection of a south facing wall, ideally evergreens over the top of it (to protect it from the winter wet) and most importantly rather poor soil. It grows successfully at high altitudes in California (where it does get cold) so it ideally needs an alpine bed - soil, gravel and sand. Given these I reckon that I can now overwinter one here in West Oxfordshire (where are you?).

 

Epilobium canum survives here over winter and has done even through the bad winters of a few years back. I have a salmon pink form of it rather than the standard red one. I also have one labelled Z. pumilio (not sure of the correct name) which is a small creeping plant which again has survived outside for the last 10 years at least. Agree about the need for well drained soil.

 

Bother another name change, but at least it is pronounceable if less memorable.
It survives happily down here on top of a stone bank, flowering nicely at the moment can get a bit straggly.

 

Thank you all for your advice and opinions.
I garden in Cradley Heath in the West Midlands, the spot where I'd like to put them is west facing, gets a lot of sun in summer and the soil is fairly free draining.
I'll risk it for a biscuit, methinks. Thanks again.