My thanks to Mark McDonough for bringing my attention to a level lower than the Lilium: yes, there are alliums! In my defense I can say that they weren't quite in bloom then. They include some forms of A. nutans, fine but not spectacular (the variegated one not being blooming size yet); a good white A. cernuum and rather too many reddish-purple ones; what is meant to be A. texanum, from the Allium Seed Exchange -- it has white flowers, all right, but the leaves are plain green; any A. sphaerocephalum that has escaped elimination (though I may become more permissive in more unkempt areas); lots of A. flavum (including ssp. tauricum if it ever gets to flowering); and a mystery one from Denver Bot. Gard. seed that is not A. gooddingi, which is only now opening its heads of pink flowers. I humbly agree that I could well stand to have many more. There are also Alstroemeria haemantha and Oxalis rubra, if they are to be included among the geophytes. Jim Jones Lexington, MA; Home of liberty and of Mark McDonough