A favorite online retailer High Country Gardens is having a bulb sale that will add spring beauty to your water wise garden. My favs, are Fritillaria imperialis 'Rubra Maxima' & Fritillaria meleagris, thinking - "wouldn't it be great to see them in the wild? arid rocky mountains of Turkey and else where in the Middle East".

See the images in Penelope Hobhouse's - Garden of Persia - for wonderful views of this land its plants & people.