Sand beds & sources
James Waddick (Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:12:22 PST)

Dear John ;
This is great. I built a sand bed as follows. 5 ft wide, 3 ft
deep and 3 ft high. This is built at the end of the driveway with a
lining of Weed barrier and hardware cloth to keep critter from
digging up into the bed. It is filled with pure coarse sand and a
couple chunks of real tufa and other stones on top.

I have no Crocus in it yet (!), but I now have a great
shopping list. The few things I have planted in this bed are doing
amazingly well. It may yet give me hope for Crocus goulimyi,
cvijicii, baytopiorum,gargaricus, hadriaticus, niveus and others I
have tried and lost.

I do have a 'complaint' about your sources as it is harder
and harder for imports into the US. USDA has given me more trouble in
the past year than within the last ten years and I fear that imports
will be even more difficult. I am sure this will(does) encourage
illegal imports, but it also discourages many potential sources from
sending seeds, bulbs and plants to the US at all. Even the Crocus
Group does not include US members in their seed program (Tony is this
true?).

My fairly new sand beds and troughs turned out to be simpler
projects than I anticipated and have impressed me greatly.

Best Jim W.
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Dr. James W. Waddick
8871 NW Brostrom Rd.
Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711
USA
Ph. 816-746-1949
E-fax 419-781-8594

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