Hi, I too was amazed by the new Lycoris photos on the wiki from Mari Kitama, added by David Pilling. Jim's post made me remember all the massed blooms I've seen in the wild. I suspect the ones in Japan were planted. Perhaps she can tell us about them. It made me think it might be fun to have a wiki page showing some of our images of bulbs massed we have photographed in the wild. I have memories firmly established in my mind of ones I've seen in South Africa: Romulea sabulosa, Romulea diversiformis, Romulea kombergensis, Oxalis obtusa, Moraea miniata, Daubenya aurea, Bulbinella latifolia, Lapeirousia silenoides, Oxalis namaquana, Geissorhiza splendidissima, Hesperantha vaginata, Geissorhiza radians to name just a few. Our first trip to South Africa happened to be in a really good year (meaning abundant rainfall at the right time) and the day we went to Nieuwoudtville I remember saying to my husband would have been worth the whole trip because of the amazing displays of flowers in bloom. I don't think the scanned images of our slides quite captured what we saw. The limits of the wiki on file size also means that none of the pictures on the wiki can quite capture what it is like to see a whole field of flowers in bloom either. Seeing Hyacinthoides non-scripta turning hillsides and fields blue while hiking in the Lake District and Scotland was quite wonderful as well. Mary Sue