This is a favorite flower of Joan and Gene Lemme of Dixon, Ill., Best Overall Garden winners in our Glorious Gardens Contest 2006. Now is the time you see it blooming. Why they love it: Lycoris ...

The surprise lily, or Lycoris squamigera, adds beauty and fragrance to the garden in late summer. Its many common names are as whimsical as the plant itself. It has been called magic lily, mystery ...

The subject line of the email sounded a bit alarming: “Think I actually have Lycoris squamigera.” But the sender was my West Chester gardening friend, Gary McKown, and though I had never heard of ...

These seemed to pop out of the ground overnight. Just a stalk and then, boom, a flower. Is it a lily? Naked ladies are having a banner year. More demurely known as resurrection lilies or magic lilies, ...