I've got a few bulbs in flower that are native to the Pacific coast, and they're putting on a rather nice show: Brodiaea coronaria, from a few bulbs collected roadside a couple of miles from me. Mixed in with the brodiaea are: Allium accuminatum, two forms, both collected locally: one with rather darker flowers and sturdier stems than usual; and the other with white flowers. Elsewhere in the garden: Triteleia ixioides: grown from exchange seed, and putting on quite the show. Not native locally; a Californian bulb. These are all easy bulbs if you live in a temperate Mediterranean climate - winters not excessively cold, summers very dry. All of them seem to be proliferating, and the show of flowers seems better this year than usual, perhaps because we had a longer, chillier winter than usual. I've sent a few bulbs of the darker Allium accuminatum to a couple of nurserymen in the past, asking that the cultivar name be 'Oluna' (after Oluna Ceska, a botanist and botanical artist here), but neither has made an appearance in a catalog to my knowledge. More's the pity as it is superior to the run of the mill specimens of the species. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada