Actually, Mary Sue, 'Golden Bells' is N. bulbocodium cultivar recently introduced by the Dutch. It is supposedly very floriferous with numerous scapes per bulb. I have not found it to be a mass of golden bells, but it does persist in my garden where other bulbocodiums dwindle away and is a very late season bloomer. Kathy Andersen ksa@del.net Wilmington, Delaware zone 6b-7a ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 8:59 PM Subject: [pbs] Common Names > Dear All, > > Mark's comment about Rhodies amused me because living in Rhododendron > country I too have been trying to focus on what we are really talking about > here. People obviously have a lot of affection for this genus and want to > give it a nickname. > > I mentioned a couple of days ago that a woman called to have me identify > her yellow flowers. When I tried to tell her they were Narcissus > bulbocodium she told me she didn't think so because she had Narcissus and > Daffodils and these were different. I tried to explain they were all > Narcissus. She was quite pleased when I offered her Hoop Petticoat as a > name however. She told me she much preferred common names. Today she called > and left me a message that the owner of the nursery had come to her house > to look at the flowers and I was wrong. The plants she had were correctly > called Golden Bells. > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > >