Dear all; I used to think that narcissus were the totally fool proof landscape bulb for my climate, but have found out slightly differently*. In any case it is still the most reliable, easiest, cheapest and available landscape bulb for my area. Perfectly good acceptable cultivars are sold in garden centers, mass markets, and drug stores every fall, yet I am constantly amazed that it is not in EVERY garden. I live in an area with a major building boom. Houses and developments pop up at an alarming rate. People spend a million dollars on a house and get the standard green meat ball landscape or worse Zero-scaping. Just a few dollars would bring years of joyful bloom in daffodils that multiply and satisfy. So this plea is for you good gardeners to give even your worst black- thumb gardening friends a bag of daffodils of any kind. Plant the bulbs for them if needed. They are available in quantity now. You practically cannot loose. Why wait for Chrsitmas? Surely no one has too many. Best Jim W. * We are subject to late frost and one time, in decades of growing daffodils, a especially hard late freeze totally killed flower stalks and foliage of a couple early varieties, but even so they recovered enough to boom the next spring. This is a rare exception. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +