madgardener wrote in
:

there is an excellent book on Bulbs titled literally Bulbs
by Roger Phillips & Martyn Rix, an oversized paperback book
that has 254 pages in full color of not only the bulbs and
what they look like, but of the bulbs with the flowers and
leaves attached in glorious detail.

thanks Maddie. i'll see if i can order it from Border's.
there are literally thousands of the really tiny bulbs.
apparently they've been happily expanding there for many many
years. strangely, many of these bulbs are under the astilbes.
i don't remember seeing anything blooming where the astilbes
were, well, besides the astilbes perhaps they were too deep
for such tiny bulbs? more than 2" deep.
lee