Whether one admires mass bulb displays such as those at Keukenhof and many other public gardens depends on individual taste. I like to see "masses" of flowers in the wild, where they are mingling with other vegetation and elements of the natural scene, but a solid block of uniform blossom, even in well-shaped beds, leaves me cold. One reason is that I know how it got that way and what will happen to it once the flowering is done: mass planting and mass demolition. I'm sure visitors to my garden expect to see a "prettier" sight with more flowers in mass, but the only such sights here are the naturalized daffodils and muscari in April and the alstroemerias in summer. The rest is very spotty and always subject to experiment and revision. I'm always trying to create natural-looking associations of plants, as rock gardeners tend to do, but it takes many years to find which species will flourish just to the right extent, without becoming invasive. And once I identify them, the predators seem to also! I was pleased to have a flowering stem on Notholirion thomsonianum in the open garden this spring, but two nights ago a rabbit ate it (just the scape, not the leaves). Fortunately, those in the bulb frame will flower, and rabbits rarely invade the frames -- though they have done so, as evident from their droppings. My recently acquired collie is keeping the deer out, but the rabbits are too elusive (or too numerous) for her. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA