Lee Poulsen wrote: Also, having been numerous times to Honshu, Japan in their summers and > a couple of times to southern China in their summer, it is very very > warm and humid there at that time. Might those places also have native > Lily species that could either take or even enjoy a similar kind of > weather in Texas or the southern states of the U.S.? And what might > some of those species be? What about Llilium brownii? That is a southern Chinese species, very unsatisfactory in the UK. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/