Hi Kathleen, Well the climate envy goes both ways. :) Those Colchicum autumnale I received from you via the PBS BX 321 in August 2012 just have not thrived at all in my garden, likely because it is so much drier and warmer here. I ordered several species bulbs from a nursery in the PNW for the first time last year and have been giving them extra dollops of stored rain water but I expect they will not thrive like they would in your garden. Kathleen wrote: "Photographs don't always document the colors we 'see' in flowers. So I'm curious, using these cards, how close could you get to specific flower colors?" Good question. I am learning how to document color. When I see a flower in the garden, the color I perceive is influenced by its surroundings and the lighting. Sometimes even with the Pantone color chart I think I have captured the color match but then upon reviewing the photographs I see it is not an exact match. There is not only the expected variation between plants but also shades within a single petal. The color chart is more precise than my blue painters' tape but even that common blue tape is better for my purpose than no reference at all. Awhile back someone mentioned on this list that a catalog photo seemed over saturated. Imagine if the catalogs included a calibrated color chart. - Gastil