Dear all, In Mary Sue's absence (she is on vacation) your board is going to take turns with the Topic of the Week. These topics were suggested by none other than Robert Parker, one of our illustrious members, and a loyal dinner guest at the bulb dinners I have here at our home twice yearly. This weeks topic is: Have you ever planted a bulb and had it disappear from sight and thought you had lost it only to rediscover it 4-6 years later? My own contribution to this topic (and the reason I chose it from Robert's suggested list) is that I have three Lycoris bulbs that originally came from Jim Waddick (who, for those of you new to PBS, introduced the original idea of the Bulb Exchange some years ago). I planted them at the top of a slope that descends from the back edge of our back yard. I was very new to bulbs at that point and although I was trying very hard to follow all directions exactly, I somehow became confused and planted these bulbs 12 inches deep! Each year as I scanned the slope, they were nowhere in evidence. After two or three years I gave up and emailed Jim W. about the planting particulars. He said they should only be planted about 3 inches deep. It's suicide to go out on that slope except under the most serious emergencies since the whole thing is a 1:1 slope and both John and myself have rolled from the top to the bottom several times while weeding over the years...and we're neither of us is getting any younger either. So I resigned myself to no lycoris bulbs. But THEN, last year as I was surveying the slope from the edge of the back yard I saw one lone flower stalk amid mostly plain dirt. Yes! One of the long-lost lycoris bulbs! Eventually all three appeared that year and bloomed. I am hoping that they will appear again this year. The moral is: don't give up! Cathy Craig EA President PBS