Jim SHields wrote, >The Lycoris are now all nearly over with here. I hate to see them go, as >this means summer is about to end. However, there is consolation at >hand: the first Colchicum are starting to bloom in my lawn, C. >byzantinum. It is usually the first one up in autumn, and this year is >typical. Usually, the next one to appear will be Colchicum cilicium >"Purpureum". Jim, will you please explain how colchicums coexist with a lawn? That is, one thinks of a lawn as being mown at the time that the colchicum leaves are in growth. The flowers would, however, be pretty in grass. Jane McGary Northwestern Oregon, USA