On 30 Apr 2012, at 23:26, Jacek Zwoli ski wrote: > My experience with general bulb commerce in Europe is the following: galanthus > bulbs survive drying, though injured while leucojum vernum do not survive. > Purchase directly from the nursery that grows the bulbs may shorten the dry > period and thus help the bulbs to survive. I have had reasonable success with flabby fall-purchased commercial Leucojum vernum by soaking as described in my earlier message, potting up in clean, washed sand, and keeping in a cold frame over winter. However, when planted out in growth the next spring, very few survived. My suspicion is that though this treatment brings them to life, the bulbs are still quite weak and prone to rot in the open garden. If they ever turn up again locally, I would keep them in their pot of sand for at least another growing season before planting out. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate