Jim McKenney wrote: The most floriferous planting of Lycoris squamigera I have ever seen was in > full blazing sun: a field where seemingly thousands bloomed from a > planting > naturalized long ago. > I should love to see such a sight - or indeed almost any Lycoris at all, this country being a notoriously no-grow area for the genus. But my question is, how do such displays develop? Is it from seed? Are the ones observed in western Virginia adorning 'every small town' passed from garden to garden in a neighbourly fashion? John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/