Hi Gang, I hope you can drop in at the Botanic Garden of Houston Web site. We are not a real garden yet, but we're working on it. We've identified about 250-300 acres of land and have an agreement with the city, and we have started a search for an Executive Director. We have funding for initial goals and are gearing up for a major capital raising campaign. If all goes well we'll start construction (ground breaking) of an actual botanical garden in 2-3 years. Perhaps, $100-$300 million and thirty years will be required to really achive our goal of a world class botanic garden for Houston. For now, we have a limited Web presence and I'm going to write a few article in hopes that visitors will want to come back and read new articles as they appear. Naturally, I hope to write about bulbs, bulb propagation, bulb suppliers, and so on. And, for sure, I hope to write about our wonderful Texas native bulbs and pass-along garden bulbs. But, it all takes time. For now, please check my first article (link below). Also, all of you have sharp eyes and a lot of "smarts," so don't be shy. I'm forever making typos, or confusing Jim with Jay, or getting species mixed up. This is the most helpful, honest, clever, frank, and superlative email/Web group I have ever participated in (yes, you should all be proud of yourselves). I'm quite willing to get criticisms from this group (even hopeful) because y'all get to the point and unfailingly seem to find polite ways to inform. Plants in History: Cotton (BGH Web article ) http://botanicgardenofhouston.org/djs/200702.html Cordially, Joe