Jane McGary mentioned Anemone biflora. The photograph of this species in The Bulb Book of Rix & Phillips was my introduction to this species. A form with bright red flowers is shown there. It's been 25 years since I first saw that, and I've been waiting patiently for that species to appear in bulb catalogs. For those of us who live in climates where severe winters make the poppy anemones unreliable garden plants, this species seemed to give hope of a winter hardy red-flowered vernal anemone. But have I got it right? Can we expect this species to be as hardy as, for instance, Anemone blanda? Is there some difficulty which has kept this species from becoming a common garden plant? Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/