Hello, No offense taken to this mis-naming. Thanks for the welcomes. I have lurked, after joining, for about two months and even before that I have read through many of the archives before I joined. I grow many things in pots, but I try to plant things out as soon as I think they can handle it. The only thing that stay in pots are those many, ever increasing, tropicals. All the plants are grown on my parents property, almost a full 2 acres. I plan on moving to the Asheville, North Carolina area, but that will have to wait and see. I hope the climate does not force me to leave certain things behind when the time comes. I manage the gardening on Saturday's when I make the 2 hour drive from here to there and then back on Saturday evening to start/finish homework. I forgot to mention that I grow many species Lilium and have done well with quite a few, but formosanum still gives me trouble. I have a bunch of formosanum coming along in pots but none, not even var pricei, will grow outside. All the other species stay outside in the garden. Lachenalias are great, especially the pustulate and mottled ones. I have about a dozen species that are in there 2nd year. Also Massonias. I have several collections of Zephyranthes atamasco that have wintered here in Z5 also. And many collections fo Hymenocallis occidentalis. All the best, Waiting for spring, Aaron Floden --- James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote: > Dear All; > Seems silly to welcome Aaron to the list since I > welcome him > to my door more often. And surprised he wasn't > already a regular (but > may have been lurking?). His garden is at the > southern end of Kansas > City (mine in the north end of town) and he can make > it here in half > an hour, but it take me closer to an hour to drive > (at the speed > limit !) to visit him. > He commutes from Manhattan KS (KS St Univ) to home > at light > speed and goes planting hunting at the drop of a hat > (or less) with a > fantastic eye for finding variegated and unusual > natives. Then I can > sometimes talk him out of later. > I had the pleasure to introduce him to Tony Avent a > week or > so ago over lunch and then sat back for their > 'drone' on Trillium > collecting spots. Not too painful (wink). > So he grows a lot of bulbous plants- many from seed > - and > will surely add to the list as his class time (or > avoidance of class > work) and fiance Heather, permits. > Welcome Jim W. > -- > Dr. James W. Waddick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com/