Rimmer I am in zone 4-5, Minnesota, and love my rainlilies. They literally bloom everytime it rains. I plant mine in the garden, they love my regular garden area. I take them out in the fall, and separate the smaller bulbs from the larger ones. I store them in my crawl space, in large containers with wood shavings. The 2-3 years old bulbs get fairly large, like an apricot, and they bloom profusely. The smaller ones I plant independently, in a row, like garlic. I have so many, I give them away to people that come to visit my garden, a fistfull at a time. When I run out of space in the garden, I plant them in large containers, close together. Hundreds together in 3 foot long containers. I line the containers in the sun, along the fence. They don't do well in the containers compared to those in the garden, even though it is the same soil, they grow some, and rarely bloom. I can't get myself to throw them away. Eventually they find their way to being planted in the garden. Then they grow large and bloom a lot. I started with probably half a dozen bulbs, now I have thousands. A lot of work in the spring to plant each bulb and in the fall to dig, clean, cut the roots that get quite long ( 10-12 in) dry in the sun, and store. But what don't we do for our plants? Luminita _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…