>So perhaps this week we can consider Eremurus is the topic or people >can share where Lycoris grows successfully since Jim Waddick has in >his subject heading suggested it as a topic for this week. Dear all; I really was just replying to the TOW--Bulbs for Pacific Northwest since it was brought up. Didn't really mean to alter TOW. Having sent out thousands of bulbs over the last 13 years (!!!) I'd love to hear about responses and adaptability of Lycoris. All but a couple of species grow well here with little care (my usual). Although I have warned before I will repeat my educated guesses about Lycxoris and roots. Since I haven't dug established bulbs at all months, I can't say definitively, but I believe roots are (semi) permanent. In nature and here they do not receive a dry baking so roots remain. However in digging and shipping, roots dry and drop off rapidly. Mature bulbs planted in the dormant season (roughly July - Sept.) are able to bloom the fall after planting. These same bulbs may go on to grow new roots and establish rapidly, but many may take an entire year to settle in, grow roots and return to vigor. So even if a bulb blooms the fall after planting it may not bloom the next fall (to recover) and continue blooming the second fall after planting. I have some people say that the bulbs failed to do anything, then write years later that they were surprised to see a bright yellow (usually) spot in the garden and found the label for Lycoris chinensis. Even bulbs with husky foliage can get lost in the spring rush to green and good gardeners fail to notice that they growing right along. I have also had numerous experiences of bulbs failing to show the next spring and even the second spring after planting and then appear and bloom the third year. A situation I refer to root re-growth. This condition may occur in other bulbs, but perhaps less intensely. This also results in a person asking for bulbs one year then 2 or 3 years later wanting many more. Anyway I'd appreciate experiences regarding bloom, growth and multiplication of Lycoris in the Pacific Northwest or elsewhere. To allay questions, Yes I will be selling Chinese Lycoris species again in spring. If you wish to add your name to receive my availability list please email PRIVATELY with your email and snail mail addresses. Thanks. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +