I'm glad Jim McKenney is pleased with the Crocus flavus I sent him. I grew them from seed purchased from the Archibalds. The wild form of C. flavus is much smaller than 'Dutch Yellow' or 'Yellow Giant' but it makes up for that by being earlier and increasing fast both vegetatively and by seed, which is freely set here. It's also perfectly hardy (I grow it without protection). Other crocuses in flower here include, in addition to the C, michelsonii I described earlier, C. leichtlinii, C. olivieri, C. ancyrensis, C. gargaricus, C. korolkowii, several subspecies of C. biflorus, C. sieberi forms, and probably some others I was looking at 2 days ago when giving the bulb frames their first spring feeding (a little early, but we're having a dry spell when they needed watering anyway). The recent hard freeze seems not to have damaged much of anything in the frames, and in the open garden the arums are still looking all right; unhappily, rabbits seem to be eating everything else that sticks a leaf above ground. A rabbit even climbed into one of the frames and chewed on a number of plants, including some deciduous lewisias that were just emerging. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA