Dear Trough Growers, I don't have a trough and haven't tried to grow anything in one. After hearing a woman with hot summers say she had to water hers every day, sometimes more often I lost interest. Perhaps this is a dumb question and I expect I'll be flooded with references to reading about troughs. If you were picking tiny bulbs to go in a trough for year round interest, wouldn't they have to be bulbs or corms that would be happy with wet conditions both in winter and summer? I know on this list a lot of people have reported successes with bulbs that are supposed to be kept dry during dormancy and weren't. Presumably the other plant roots would be sucking up the moisture too and I assume the mix would have a lot of air in it as well. Normally a lot of California bulbs are recommended for a dry dormancy. And I lost all the rhodohypoxis I left out to be rained on in winter, but they come back fine kept semi-dry. Delphinium nudicaule and Delphinum luteum both come back in containers with other plants watered year round however, but I suppose their leaves might be a bit robust and their tendency to reseed could be a problem too. Mary Sue