Dylan wrote: > If you grow a particular species, what sort of geographic or other > variation exists within > that species? Yes. I used to grow one of each. I needed to fit in as many different plants as possible, so one was enough. Then I started going to talks given by travellers and collectors. The plants that they showed sometimes didn't look much like mine at all. So I changed my habits slightly. If something does well for me, and I like it, I will get seed of it from anyone, anywhere, in hopes of some variants. It was just after this that I realized that concentrating on bulbs would let me squeeze in lots of different plants, and many more than one of each. Raise a cheer for skinny plants! Diane Whitehead