Dear Friends, Last weekend I made a trek to Pine Knot Farms for their open house(amazing hellebores) and Barry Yinger of Asiatica Nursery had a sales table there. So did John Lonsdale of Edgewood Garden. If you are not familiar with Asiatic, I urge you to take a look at the web site http://www.asiaticanursery.com/. Barry had dozens of plants for sale from tropical to woody, perennials and so much more. All rare and choice items. Speaking of bulbs he had some wonderful things for sale. I bought a few tubers of Arisaema. All of the Arisaema he sells are blooming size tubers of around 36 species and selections. They look great. Either fully dormant or just starting to make roots. An excellent time to get them, give them slightly larger pots and wait for planting season in the garden. Barry does not recommend watering these until they show signs of growth. He sells a few species in extra large size tubers and the rarest varieties are a bit more expensive, but it hard to beat these for quality, rarity and price. I recommend you look at these now. He sells a good variety to hard to find bulbous plants of other genera too such as Caladium (exotic Thai varieties), Crinum, Cardiocrinum (3 different), Lilium, Paeonia and a few Iris (another of my purchases). Everything just looked perfect and his web site induces severe plant lust. Meanwhile, here it continues to be chilly, dull, grey and damp; a good time to look at rare plants and place an order. I recommend you take a look. This note is an unsolicited note without Asiatica consent or knowledge. Best Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +