--============_-1168588035==_ma============ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Eremurus bungei, a yellow one, now called E. stenophyllus, has flowered here a number of times, but doesn't last long. I had no success with any others I've tried. I planted them a lot deeper than Arnold suggested - it's easy to dig in sandy soil. Their susceptibility to slug attack when they first emerge might explain why I had little success. Every time I open Phillips and Rix' Bulbs, I look at the pictures of Eremurus olgae in the Elburz Mountains,and stenophyllus in the Hindu Kush, and wish I could visit the areas at bloom time. Since the country in question is Afghanistan, I no longer have a desire to actually do this, but I'm glad the photographer, Christopher Grey-Wilson, went. The pictures let me know how hopeless trying to grow them is for me. Look at them - blue sky all the way to the horizon, not a bush in sight, let alone a tree. -- Diane Whitehead Victoria, British Columbia, Canada maritime zone 8 cool mediterranean climate (dry summer, rainy winter - 68 cm annually) sandy soil