(Maybe Mr. Klein's grandmother was a rock gardener.)

Although rather insignificant in form, the tiny drabas treasured by rock gardeners have merit.

"Clarence Hay had been a legendary figure in the rock garden world," Mr. Cabot, a rock gardener himself, said.

Closer inspection reveals it is being sponsored not by the American Psychological Association, but by a group of rock gardeners in New Jersey.

It's not a spreader, like some Ajugas, and rock gardeners can't get enough of this weirdo.

The contents and design are models for all rock gardeners.

Plants are available from rock garden nurseries or they can be mooched from friends who are rock gardeners.

Paul Francois, a serious rock gardener, remembers the morning he came to the garden to discover a bullet hole through his prize Opuntia (a kind of cactus).

A mysterious fire at the laboratory prevented Mardas from presenting his inventions, but he later said: "I'm a rock gardener, and now I'm doing electronics.

These small bulbs are favorites with collectors, rock gardeners and serious horticulturists who plant them where the early blooms make a dramatic spring show.