The Lycoris bulb is doing its' thing. The Swedish ivy (Plectranthus verticillatus) coming out of the top of this pot has been there for a while. The cuttings on the side were added in the past couple weeks, but still blooming. Tradescantia sillamontana and Begonia 'Sinbad.' Until moving them to AL with me, these elephant ears (Colocasia esculenta,taro,) were a potted house plant, stored in basement for winter. 2 Summers ago, I had one that bloomed, but this year, several of the offspring of the original bulb are finally big enough to do it too. They're not much to look at, a yellow thing sticking up in the middle of the leaves, but just the idea that they're there is really cool to me, after having these bulbs for so many years. The red thing is Lycoris radiata (red spider lily/naked lady/hurricane lily.) Looks like there were a bunch of them! I don't see these daily, they're @ my Mom's house. Apparently I hadn't taken a good look at "my" plants over there for a few weeks.

A little more info is needed: How much sun do they get? All day? Only in the morning? Or only in the afternoon? How deep are they (front to back)? What kind of soil is in them? Native desert dirt? Potting soil? Sand? Kinda in between? It's hard to make suggestions without the specs. : )

Here in zone 7 ive only had my stella's, and one other bloom, but we have lots of scapes! Be patient, sounds like you may have had some spring sickness from the way you were describing your DL's leaves. Sometimes they take longer to bloom when they have that, cause they have to "grow out of it". Add that to the fact that your way up north, I wouldn't worry. They will bloom. I notice that when it starts getting warmer if you give them a BIG drink of water, mine start sprouting scapes over night. We had a thunder storm last night and bam this morning i found a lot of new scapes that weren't there yesterday. Isn't it funny how they just seem to appear out of no where? One morning your will find yours rising too! Be patient and hang in there! -Jessica

Not much so far. I do have onion seeds up and have digitalis, shastas, several varieties of vinca, three of salvia, Rocky Mt. bee plant and a few others (I can't think of) going under the lights. We are going to start fencing the garden today because of our new puppy. I could see gardening was going to be impossible.....he digs everywhere. I probably have lost several plants over the winter because of it. I plannned on the double-loop fencing but could not get it locally and by the time I ordered it and paid for shipping (and a delay) the cost was going to be several hundred dollars as compared to maybe $200. I am just too cheap to do that. Besides I plan to cover the fence with roses and clematis and tall lilies so I don't think much will show. The big hang up was the delay. I have potatoe sets drying and will put those out as soon as we get the fence in along with lettuce and spinach. We are in a severe weather pattern right now, so may not get to do the fence today. We surely do need the rain though.