There is an anonymous bulb collector in the Netherlands, who has several hectares of land, and replants all his plants every year. He plows the fields with a tractor, but digs his bulbs by hand, sieves them to find every bulb, dries and cleans them, and then replants them while kneeling in the soil. As the soil is sandy, and would blow away in the wind, the fields are covered with chopped straw. A friend of his is posting pictures on the Scottish Rock Garden Club forum as various bulbs come into flower - at the moment, lots of Iris reticulata, Crocus, including beautiful cvs of korolkoowii and biflorus, and narcissus. http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1331.0 Click only once on a thumbnail to show the larger picture. Diane Whitehead