Jamie Vande Cologne Germany Zone 8 There were there, in a basket, just staring up at me with a silly grin on their tunics, saying "Hallo,! Take us home!" I'm a sucker for cutsie corms, so I brough home 15! Babiana stricta, well, we will see about that part, I'm always suspect, especially from Holland! (do you know how badly they pay their packers?) Seriously, though, I was wondering if anyone has experience with these packaged goodies. They are certainly nice and firm, although offered out of season, and I plan to just pop them into one of my large terrace pots, maybe at the base of a wisteria standard. What think we, those more experienced than I? Am I better off trying them in their own terra-cotta? Any chance of them surviving a frost in Zone 8? Spring is raising it's lovely head and I have finally noted for sure, that one of my G. nivalis is definitely and consitently much larger than the wild form (cultivated clone is better). I collected this one bulb some three years ago in a cemetary, probably the best place to find interesting plants seeding about. It has subsequently increased and I currently have some 6-8 bulbs in a small clump and they are almost twice as large as the normal Galanthus nivalis. Same blooming period and do not look to be a hybrid, as the leaves, flowers and habit are in proportion to G. nivalis, just twice the size. Any comments from the peanut gallery? I am not a Galanthophile, just avid gardener, so I have little idea of what to note, other than the obvious. Input appreciated. Ciao....