11.   Blooms are best if the bulb is slightly pot-bound.

12.   A. Anemone blanda bulbs are actually tubers, enigmatic collections of bumps that look more like fossilized animal droppings than anything else.

13.   Add water or chicken broth to pan until bulbs are about half covered.

14.   After flowering, the mother bulb is exhausted, dies and gives up its food reserves to its daughter bulbs.

15.   Bulbs are easy to fool.

16.   Bulbs are used to getting whacked.

17.   Bulbs are vegetables.

18.   Bulbs are a little like seeds in that they store plant embryos in easy-to-ship form.

19.   Bulbs are that storm-proof.

20.   But African bulbs are so quick they may bloom in the bag.