It's the first great mystery of fall, and even after watching it happen for nearly 50 years, I can't get over it: The naked flowers of the lycoris, the red spider lilies, emerging from the weeds of ...

Many plant lovers have a special fondness for daffodils, that early blooming bulb which always seems to push out of the ground in the cold of winter and fight the elements to bring forth a sign of ...

What does the enigmatic mistress of Roman general Marcus Antonius — who died 2200 years ago — have to do with a group of flowering plants? Well, the fascinating lady's name — Lycoris — is commemorated ...

Kathy Huber has worked for the Houston Chronicle since May 1981. She was Features Copy Desk chief before becoming the first full-time garden editor for the paper in 1988. She writes a weekly garden ...

There’s probably no more delicate flower found in our gardens. I’ll give you two choices of names: Lycoris squamigera or “naked ladies.” Or you can go with the unimaginative “surprise lilies” that is ...

Q: My lycoris won't bloom in the ground or in a container. The bulb necks are exposed, and I kept the ones in a terra-cotta pot dry during the summer. New growth appeared but without blooms, although ...

What does the enigmatic mistress of Roman general Marcus Antonius -- who died 2,200 years ago -- have to do with a group of flowering plants? Well, the fascinating lady's name -- Lycoris -- is ...