Mary Sue wrote, >I don't have a trough and haven't tried to grow anything in one. After hearing a woman with hot summers say she had to water hers every day, sometimes more often I lost interest. ... If you were picking tiny bulbs to go in a trough for year round interest, wouldn't they have to be bulbs or corms that would be happy with wet conditions both in winter and summer? Reply: It would of course depend on what else you were growing in the trough, and how large it was. Larger, deeper troughs hold moisture longer, and you can of course manipulate the composition of the fill, or put them in partial shade so they don't dry out or heat up too fast. It seems to me that if you combine your bulbs with dwarf shrubs and perennials from the same type of climate and habitat, you could grow them together happily. For example, western American penstemons, eriogonums, and fritillarias; or Balkan daphnes, campanulas, and crocuses. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA