Hi Everyone, I have finally joined and I am pretty excited. I have tons of questions, but I also hope to contribute information. Now that my bulb season is over, I am freer to talk about them, and thereby making the season endless. I take care of a collection of SA bulbs at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden of New York State. It has become more than my job as any of you can well guess. It is a modest collection of about 30 Genera and 100 species. I inherited the roughly 20 year old collection and have added to it in the seven years I have been curator. Mostly I have weeded out virus infected plants and tried to keep the rest alive. This is my first time joining such a list. Thank you for letting me participate. Karla ******************************************** Karla Chandler Curator of Helen Mattin Warm Temperate Pavilion Brooklyn Botanic Garden 1000 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 phone: 718-623-7200 x 6400 fax: 718-622-7847 http://www.bbg.org/ ********************************************