Touch of Nature has a very good price for the red Lycoris radiata. (They are listed as one of GardenWatchDog's 30 top companies). I plan to order some, to establish in another part of the garden. Some of my red ones are just starting to bloom, some have finished, as have the white ones. The yellow-flowered ones are a"no-show" so far. Another member of the Amaryllis Family are also starting to bloom. The Oxblood Lily (Rhodophiala bifida). They have some foliage present when they bloom. Other fall flowers I am still waiting to see, are the Crocus and Sternbergia. Cyclamen hederifolium started blooming about 2 weeks ago. Rb Here is a link that might be useful: Touch of Nature - Lycoris

Oh whew...I am so relieved to read that nobody thinks they are spider mite webs. Whew, whew!! Is there some definitive way to determine mite webs vs spider webs? Thanks TJ. You are right. And I haven't sprayed a thing, good or bad, in the last 15 years with the mentality of "come what may" but this yard has been trying. I have never seen so many good and bad bugs in my life...and in the last month resorted to BT to kill the hornworms that are decimating my tomatoes and since I'm spraying anyway, I bought the neem which I'd read up on here. It appeared to be pretty innocuous overall, so that I used along one fence where most of my succulents live in light shade and dappled sun--that's the area where both of these photos were taken. None of it was sprayed on my edible or flowering plants, as I read that neem can damage blossoms... The only thing I have consistently used except when I lived in SF was snail bait and they seem to be having quite the blast anyway this year. Jean, we sure do! I can't confirm my neighbor ID'd what she saw correctly but upon hearing that and about two minutes before I ordered neem, lol, I did google it and Japanese Beetles were spotted in the Sacramento area, right above me, per the CA Dept of Ag. I only read one article but that was close enough for me! Ken, my spiders are year round, I'm afraid. January has much less than the other months but there is no month where I can't find spiders crawling on my plants or webbing here and there. Come spring, there's virtually no plant I can't find a spider on or at least evidence of some spider having been on it. That said, I still find it really bizarre that at this yard, for the first time ever in my gardening life, I have not seen ONE aphid. Spiders are not predators of aphids, are they? I've never seen a ladybug here either..probably because there are no aphids. Not complaining but I find it so bizarre! Thanks again, folks!

Dont let them touch me. I hate wet plants touching me when I walk around my house. I hate dry plants touching me because ticks, chiggers and other crawlies. And how little spiders can string web across paths so I get spiderweb on my nose is like a little superpower.

"I live in Michigan's northernmost county, Keweenaw." Ah yes, the Keweenaw peninsula, famous for its native copper mines of a century ago. These deposits were originally worked by Native Americans long before Europeans arrived. This is one of the very few places on earth where native copper is found. Native copper is the metal itself sometimes alloyed with a bit of silver. Most other occurrences of copper are compounds of copper such as copper-sulfate, etc. Our rock hound club (from Wisconsin) has hunted for copper specimens in that area. Hello neighbor.