Thank you for the advice and sympathy. I'll check out how the bulbs look and see whether they are plantable. They will probably need fertilizer if they are. Perhaps sometime they will be able to make flowers. The guy who was meant to plant them is a neighbor and can't get away. This is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, which is when the bugbane patch and crocosmias are at their showiest. "Lucifer" is the only one I can reliably overwinter. I wonder whether it could be crossed with something else. Jane Sargent _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…