On 11 Apr 04 at 20:46, Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > ...Please share with the group any bulbs that fit any of these > possibilities or even just surprise you even if you read they had > an unusual fragrance. Although in doing so it lives up to its billing in the press, Arum dioscorides is always a surprise -- but not a pleasant one. It reeks of a compost heap that's been over-watered and gone to the dark side. The first few years it flowered, I wasn't clueful and kept wondering just what my neighbors were putting in their compost! Add in its dire coloring of dirty yellow-green with blackish purple-maroon spots and you have a sure winner! -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island