It's 10 pm -- do you know where all your bulbs are? I just had one of those experiences suffered, probably, by everybody who grows a lot of bulbs: I found a bucket of bulbs I had set aside to plant and forgotten. These were cast-offs from my repotting operation in midsummer and had been sitting under my potting table, outdoors, in an uncovered plastic bucket, through temperatures ranging from 90 to 25 F, with no moisture except fog and splashes of rain, for over 3 months. I wouldn't have noticed them except that Crocus nudiflorus reached out with its huge purple flowers and caught my eye. To my surprise, the heap of crocuses, frits, narcissi, and others had formed a mass of roots in the bottom of the bucket and most of them seemed to be in a condition at least as good as what I've seen in commercial bulbs on sale in some garden centers. I disentangled them carefully and planted them here and there in the rock garden, for whatever they still have in them after this dreadful experience. I suppose it was being so crowded that saved most of them from freezing during our recent cold snap. So look under your potting bench before it gets any later! Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon