In response to Jane McGary, Diana Chapman wrote: "Leucojum roseum is very tiny and delightful with pink glistening flowers. This Leucojum is so small it has to be grown in a pot or trough." I have a raised bed that is about 10 ft across, curcular, having a Dragon's Blood tree (huge succulent grown into a tree) in the center. I originally made this bed for hippeastrum bulbs and it is half or more very coarse cilica sand. There is no water beyond my hosing it when I think of it - which can't be more than 12 times a year. In desperation for fear of losing the bulbs in a pot amongst hundreds of pots, I put my L. roseum bulbs together in this bed. I am amazed when each year they come back and bloom. Surely they have foliage but if so it is so small and sparse and disappears so quickly I can't now recall seeing it. However; they bloom reliably every year around early December I think and the blooms come up with no visible foliage...which is just as well as the blooms are quite small on stiff upright stems with the approximate diameter of a darning needle. The are very cute and the stems are about 4-5 inches, hooked at the top like a shepherd's crook, with nodding pink bells. Perfect for a trough I'd say. I don't think they have increased but neither have they declined in numbers over the 3 or 4 years they have been in there now. One would need half a dozen planted perhaps an inch apart. Cathy Craig EA _________________________________________________________________ Let the advanced features & services of MSN Internet Software maximize your online time. http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/…