It has been really hot! My Lycoris beds are showing some bloom. A number of Lycoris squamigera shot up stalks starting the 26th, I believe. Around here, you can count on or about the 25th every year with differences only in quantity of bloom, I suppose, based on weather. We got a good rain Friday and some L. sprengeri, sanguinea, and longituba are poking up spikes. I have been dripping another bed which has had a single xhaywardii (before I started dripping) come up, some houdyshelii, an unnamed (lost label) from Jim W. that looks a lot like houdy, radiata pumila, and longituba x sprengeri (or vica versa), again from Jim W. I miss your little sales, Jim... If you've only recently planted them (since 05), Bill, they are probably just playing catchup. If the same bulbs have leafed out for you at the proper time before, I wouldn't know why they are coming up now. Mr. Kelly M. Irvin The Bulbmeister 10846 Hodge Ln Gravette, AR 72736 479-366-4968 USDA Cold Hardiness Zone 6b E-mail: mailto:bulbmeister@bulbmeister.com Website: http://www.bulbmeister.com/ Forum: http://www.bulbmeister.com/forum/ Blee811@aol.com wrote: > The L. radiata that Conroe Joe so graciously offered are in a different area > and two are showing some leaves---I don't think that's what they're supposed > to be doing right now! > Bill Lee