I don't have this problem... Perhaps it is because your area is too warm for them. They do seem to need a certain amount of chill. At 08:49 PM 1/24/2003 -0800, you wrote: >IThey will look so >bad by the time they bloom I will have to dig them all out and throw them >away because I won't be able to stand the mess for 8-10 weeks. Marguerite English, Editor: 'The Bulb Garden' Gardening in USDA zone 7, 3700 feet in the mountains east of San Diego, Ca., US of A.