Jim wrote, >Suddenly I'm feeling very acquisitive and want to start a new collection. >[of Anemone nemorosa variants] At a recent local plant sale, I acquired a couple of new ones from a Swiss nurseryman who has relocated to my area. His nursery is Edelweiss Perennials, and it has a rudimentary website (be sure you search for Edelweiss Perennials, not "Edelweiss Nursery," which is a midwestern bedding plant operation). I've also found an excellent list of these plants at Long Acre Plants (U.K.) but have not received a reply to my inquiry about whether they ship overseas. The "crested" form that Diane Whitehead describes as a plant passed from garden to garden is probably the same as the one that I got from Bovees Nursery in Portland, Oregon. I tried to buy it there years ago and they would not sell it to me, but I got it anyway by buying a field-grown rhododendron from them, with the anemone rhizomes in the root ball. I expect they sell it on purpose now. They have a mail-order operation but I don't know if they're on line. I don't recall whether Janet Galpin, who is working on a British National Collection of Anemone, is on this forum, but I've corresponded with her in the past and she probably has a good list of known varieties of A. nemorosa. I recently researched the British National Collections program while casting about for something to write. In this scheme, both institutions and individuals maintain and curate systematic collections of one genus, or one section of a genus (e.g., there is a national collection of Japanese Anemone cultivars). A standing committee examines proposals and certifies the collections based on fairly elaborate criteria. Some years ago, American nurseryman Barry Glick was trying to stir up interest in starting a similar program in the USA, but as far as I know it never got off the ground, or should I say in the ground. Especially with the movement to restrict the entry of new plant species to the USA, it might be good to explore establishing such a project now, under the auspices of a representative and stable committee, with official input from plant societies. (Replies to this paragraph should have a new subject line, please.) Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA