Hi Gordon, Years ago I organized a topic of the week for several years. There were several topics on the best bulbs for specific regions. Topics we discussed can be found in: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… We discussed Bulbs for Pacific Northwest, Bulbs for Mediterranean Gardens, Bulbs for Continental Climates - Upper Midwest, Bulbs for Texas. It depended on finding a person in a particular region willing to introduce the topic with his/her experience and then for others to share as well. I made wiki pages for the favorite plants people listed by color and plants you can grow in the shade, but never found the time to make wiki pages for some of the other topics discussed. I remember when I decided to do the color pages being told by one of the other volunteers that I would come to regret it and it was a really big job so I understood later his advice. The Legacy Bulb pages came about because Kathleen Sayce was willing to spend a fair amount of time creating text for me to add to the wiki. Ernie O'Byrne introduced the Bulbs for the Pacific Northwest. You can see how his experience compares to yours: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbslist/… And a lot of others responded which you can find in the archives for that month (January 2003). It would take someone to come up with a compilation from all the people's suggestions for a list. I agree that knowing what you can easily grow is really helpful and the categories we discussed were really broad and there are huge difference of microclimates within them which makes a list only a starting point. My climate in coastal Northern California is probably a combination of Pacific Northwest and Mediterranean. Being coastal I have success with entirely different bulbs than inland gardeners only a couple hours away. I can grow things Southern California gardeners can't and they can grow things I can't even if we are both Mediterranean. My list would only contain a few of the things on your list. Mary Sue _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…