you didn't dig up some of them red ones for you and me??? g there's a
YELLOW lycoris????? don't torture me girl, bad enough I still ain't located
the old Milk and Wine Crinum yet........and they grow down there like weeds
too. They acclimate up here wonderfully...........madgardener
"Zemedelec" wrote in message
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I went to a party at a decidedly rural location in Mississippi, about an
hour's
drive from NO. The hostess lived in a hundred-plus year old house that
used to
be the local post office, quite a way down a lonesome highway near the
Pearl
River. Six acres that were alive with red and golden-yellow lycoria
radiata--in these parts they're almost a weed. Gorgeous, though--she said
she
once even had some beige ones. An odd cross? Anyway she also harbored
(and
fiercely protected) golden orb spiders--we were warned where NOT to go so
as
not to disturb their webs. Well, she was our hostess and they were "her"
spiders, I thought tolerantly--then thought again when I got a close look
at
one of the nearer spinners: its yellow body was the size of a 50-cent
piece and
its legspread must have been 3 inches. Yeoooow! Another invitee
mentioned
that the golder orb was "the least venimous spider of its size in
Louisiana."
zemedelec