I must get busy and add some more photos to the wiki soon, but right now repotting the bulbs is taking all my attention (list out in about a week!). On the subject of Narcissus, I wanted to point out a hint I found in Janis Ruksans's new book "Buried Treasures" (Timber PRess, and every one of you will want it). He writes that a deep mulch of pine needles helps deter bulb fly from attacking Narcissus. This European pest is well established now in North America and although I check my bulbs carefully when I lift them, I'm ashamed to say I have sent out some bad ones in the past, which I will certainly replace if notified. I just moved all the Sternbergia species into a corner of the frame and am going to install window screen over them, high enough that they can flower and extend their foliage under it; I should have done so with the Narcissus also but there are a great many pots of them, perhaps it's the next protection project; however, I can collect pine needles (a neighbor's planted pines seeded copiously into one of my meadows) as a mulch and try this. Another hint is that planting daffodils in the shade deters the fly to some extent. I can't understand how it is that the bulb fly does not attack the hundreds of ordinary daffodils in my garden, but homes in on some rare species in the frame. I haven't lost the sternbergias in the open, either, nor the snowdrops, which are also preyed on. This past year I covered susceptible plants in the frames with Reemay before the flies appeared, weighing it down around the edges with sand, and found no infestation in pots so treated, but I think the window screen, well above the plants, is the answer. I've now put all my crocuses in their own sections of the frames with aviary wire (small mesh chicken wire) tightly fitted over the sections. The first section so treated completely escaped the invasion of deer mice that devastated the crocuses a couple of years ago. It is, however, ugly and difficult to weed through. The crocuses easily raise their leaves and flowers through the wire, and a well-filled pot in full growth looks all right, though impossible to lift and take to a meeting for display. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA