Jim: Not being much of a chef, and one who is never allowed near the oven, I should have distinguished between dry baking and evenly moist baking. We have our best luck cooking lycoris with evenly moist baking. Our trials have also shown that dry soil reduces flowering, therefore we irrigate regularly in our sunny areas. Since the foliage only comes up in fall and is mostly gone by summer, plantings in our full sun rock garden have produced the most vigorous and floriferous plants for us. Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent