>John wrote: > > "Sand beds, summer dry but uncovered year round - medius, niveus, >cartwrightianus, goulimyi, tournefortii, boryi, cancellatus, speciosus, >hadriaticus, longiflorus, serotinus, leitchlinii, chrysanthus, antalyensis, >flavus, biflorus, laevigatus, korolkowii, pulchellus, cvijicii, baytopiorum, >gargaricus ssp. gargaricus." 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. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +