Jim wrote, >In the summer of 2005 Jane McGary sent me a bulb of Ornithogalum >reverchonii. ... Yesterday I took a look, and there is a big inflorescence >on the way up! Photos suggest that this is among the most if not the very >most elegant of the Ornithogalum - Yippee! This species, which is endangered in the wild owing to habitat loss, is a large plant with long, lax foliage, and the flowers are not as showy as one would hope after seeing the photos (Jim probably means the close-up in the Rix and Phillips "Bulbs" manual). Nevertheless, the flowers are unusual in form. I actually prefer the Ornithogalum species that flower right on the ground, stemless or nearly so. O. fimbriatum and O. lanceolatum are particularly pleasing, but they increase so slowly that I haven't tried them in the open garden yet. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA