Mary Sue is one of the kindest, most generous, sharing and knowledgeable individuals it has been my good fortune to meet and correspond with. She has always answered by requests for help and her knowledge of geophytes is legendary. My current circumstances do not permit me to tour South Africa and other areas of geophytic biodiversity but her emails and the wonderful habitat images she shares with us on the PBSwiki ensure that I at least get some insight into these areas - granted after viewing them I am photosynthetically active (green) with envy - but they significantly enrich my life. In a similar way a house full of teenagers and working parents north of Chicago is not an ideal environment to try to grow non-hardy geophytes. Again, the images posted to the wiki from the plants grown by Mary Sue (and all of the other contributors) fill that void and have often been forwarded to the horticulture staff at CBG as inspiration. Frankly, I don't know how she finds time in a normal day to contribute everything she does ... I am simply grateful. Boyce Tankersley Director of Living Plant Documentation Chicago Botanic Garden 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, IL 60022 tel: 847-835-6841 fax: 847-835-1635 email: btankers@chicagobotanic.org