George, Check out Neomarica spp. The only one I'm familiar with is a showy blue-flowered weed that's readily available in the greenhouses here (just let on that you noticed it blooming), but I see Southern Perennials & Herbs (http://www.s-p-h.com) has a yellow one as well and that there are maybe 15 species total, all sub/tropical. > The orchid I wrote about yesterday is called "Walking" or "Drooping Iris" > around here according to a lady Miz Anne talked to last night. Anne had > taken an arrangement of Amaryllis and statice to the show opening at the > art gallery and the lady had brought an arrangement of the orchids I had > talked about. This gives me a starting point but does anyone have any ideas. BK--- better go pretend to study for this 100-level Intro PC Databases final that I took (having once _written_ a respectable relational database) just to keep my student group insurance.