Arnold - no, everything just goes into the gardens as they are. The soil is generally a clayey loam - close to neautral, reasonably fertile, fairly moisture-retentive. Gardens occasionally get amended with nursery compost (mostly MetroMix 510, plus perlite and whatever other stuff typically ends up in compost: judging from the results, more baby arisaemas and cyclamen than we intend!). As I said, we're on a hill, so there's an inevitable downward trend of free moisture. For example, I have several Kniphofia caulescens growing in a swale that is completely liquid in early spring (here, April-May), and they love it. The true bulbs and corms are not in wet spots - I do try to site them on definite slopes. Other than that, nothing gets special conditions or soils - Ellen Original Message: ----------------- From: Arnold Trachtenberg arnold@nj.rr.com Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:38:49 -0500 To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [pbs] Perceptions of Zones and Hardiness Ellen: Do you take any special precautions with the soil/medium that you grow all the South African bulbs in? Arnold _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .