A note on weedy bulbs prompted by Diane's remark, "I assume people in your area behave similarly to those here. Those >bulbs didn't leap out of the garden on their own and colonize waste >ground. Instead, people weeded their garden and trundled the weeds >to the nearest public space where they dumped the wheelbarrow full of >whatever they didn't want. That gave the weedy bulbs their start." We think this must be the only way that a colony of Kniphofia got way out in the Mt. Hood National Forest at about 4000 feet elevation: somebody dumping garden debris. As far as I know, it is not spreading. Jane McGary