Dear All, With all the recent posts I am almost reluctant to post a new topic for this week. Ironically, thanks to Jim Waddick and Alpine-l, Galanthus is scheduled to be a topic for February. So it looks like we might get an introduction after our discussion. Please continue all the threads going on now as long as you like even though I am introducing a new one. Rhoda McMaster suggested that we could have a topic of the week where people shared their favorite 5s. This was something she said that everyone could participate in and wouldn't required an introduction (both of those ideas I like). One of our topics this past summer was favorite bulbs for shade. This week's topic is your favorite five (or more) yellow flowered geophytes. I know people who try to avoid yellow in their garden for some reason, but I like it as it is cheerful and goes well with blue which is another of my favorite colored flowers. Please share your favorites in this category. I'm not quite ready since when I looked through my data base I had about 20 strong candidates and will need to reduce them. To help me I decided to use as my criteria ones that I am growing (versus ones I have seen in the wild) and ones that are reliable bloomers and have bloomed more than once. That will remove plants like Ornithogalum dubium that for me is hit or miss. If it came up every year, it would certainly make my list. But if others want to include plants they don't grow or plants that bloomed once that is fine with me. We should get a broad range of plants since we have people from all over the world, but more than one nomination is just fine. Mary Sue PBS TOW coordinator