While my home garden is in Zone 5b/6a (depending on whether the glass is half full...) I also have a garden in the south of Mexico, which I have neglected this past year. I am working on fixing it up now. I have a Zephyranthes question. My commonest kind of Zephyranthes, a lovely generic white one about 10'' tall, has lived in a raised bed in the sun for maybe a decade. It seems happy there. Now a bunch of them have popped up in the lawn, scattered up to 20ft away, not just directly under the raised bed. They are in full sun. We had a few unnaturally dry months, but now we get our usual thunderstorms and amazingly violent short rains, and the Zephyranthes are flowering. They are so cute that we mow around them (perhaps ought to move them for convenience.) My question is how they got out onto the lawn. How do they disperse their seeds? And could they have been doing this all along, while I was keeping the grass really short? It got out of hand a bit this year when I was not present, but now the grass looks respectable again. Amazing things happen to a neglected garden here. We had a mature coconut palm fall over in a storm. One of my neighbors collected a bunch of the coconuts and planted them all over my lawn, and of course they grew. Our recent weeding has included pulling out young coconut palms. We have sprouts of a number of other kinds of palms, as always happens, and the canna seeded into the edge of the lawn. Vines are attacking. The Megaspekasma erythrochlamis is now 10 ft tall and needs to be disciplined with a machete. I do love that plant. It makes enormous flowers and asks for nothing. The heliconias all need to be whacked back by about 2/3. Bougainvillea needs to be shown who is boss. A banana tree has mysteriously appeared in one corner. We are well on the way back to having the jungle this used to be. But I wonder how the Zephyranthes sneaked out onto the lawn. The neighbor is a possible but unlikely explanation, because the flowers have been blooming only very recently and wouldn't have drawn much attention before. Jane Sargent _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…