The season for oporanthous bulbs opened this week with Rhodophiala bifida, Scilla/Bernardia japonica and an old garden form of Colchicum agrippinum distributed by Jane McGary. The Rhodophiala is already gone for the year. Other than those, there is nothing else to report. The Lycoris season was a bust here this year – virtually nothing bloomed other than one or two L. squamigera. Bulbs of Amaryllis belladonna and Nerine sarniensis ‘Corusca Major’ are plump, hard and evidently profoundly dormant. We were expecting a cold front this weekend, but the hurricane off the coast upset that one: it remained very hot (over 80 degrees F and humid until well into the night last night. By morning it had cooled off a bit down to 70, We have experienced a record-breaking number of days with temperatures over 90 degrees F this year – I’m sick of it. 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/