Yes they have been grown outdoors, but I live in a very cool, cloudy, coastal area so you may need to slowly acclimate them to your area as I know it gets much hotter in mentone. I will be out in Alta Loma either next weekend or the following weekend which is pretty close so I could bring a few plants with me. Unfortunetly I tried to ship about 5 plants and almost all of them didn't make the journey so i'm not sure if I can ship them after all unless it's something like 2 day shipping.