RE:Surprise lilies, AKA Lycoris squamigera

I think I related this before - but when we moved into this house about 20
years ago and I became interested in gardening, I noticed a big clump of
lily-like foliage which came up and never produced anything. So one year I
dug it up and found about 12+ onion-like bulbs, some of which I planted
around and the rest just threw away up into the little woods in back of the
yard. Surprise lily is a good name - surprise, they all thrived and bloomed
in the fall. Even the throwaways that managed to plant themselves (or got
covered enough by fallen leaves to do so). So perhaps the non-bloomers are
like my early ones - they have crowded themselves into not producing
flowers. I cannot remember what time of year I did this, however. And as I
look about the yard and woods, I can see those green clumps getting
suspiciously crowded again.

-Barb P.
S. Wisconsin

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