Some of the Rainlilies (Prairie Sunset)a hyrid between
a native rainlily and introduced rainlily from South America will give you some color too.It ia a cross of Haberanthus tubispanthus and our native Cooperia drummondii.

My prairie sunset rain lilies are blooming now - and bloomed a few weeks ago when we had a spot of rain. They truly do have sunset colors in them. I also like the pink rain lilies which are also blooming now that we've had some rain. Bigger flowers than the P sunset, so show up much better from a distance.
Oxblood lilies should be coming up pretty soon. I love those too.

I had wanted some yellow ones, and saw some growing on the side of 610, where 288 joins it, in Houston, near the Astrodome, but with the crazy traffic, no way in heck I could ever stop there and get a few.

Looked out in my yard one day, and there was a huge patch of yellow ones growing there. I couldn't believe it. I have the white ones and two different sizes of pink, but had never seen the yellow ones growing anywhere around here, but there in Houston. (I live 45 minutes away...sort of n/w of Galveston.)

Rain lilies are my new favorites too. I have white, pink, yellow and sunset. Currently the white ones and the yellow ones are blooming. With all the rain we've gotten in the past week, I'm surprised they're not drowning!

Do the other kinds smell good? I gifted myself with some seeds of yellow and pink from the botanic gardens. I like the scent of the white ones.

I think I saw some wild rain lilies the other day. I was driving along 287 towards 20 in Arlington and saw these stands of white flowers that hadn't been there the day before! I just about pulled over (in the rain) to look at them before remembering "oh yeah it's a busy highways and my kids are already yelling to go home." (Hardly their fault, they're 3 and infant.) I'm sure it would've been a popular decision for Mom to stop on the road and go poking around in the grass. Then again, it's not a democracy.

I WILL stop some other time when the kids are not with me. I want to be sure those are what I think they are! It's tempting to take home free plants, but I know it's not good to remove specimens from the wild. I will just admire them in their natural habitat. (Says the girl who desperately wants to be a master gardener.)

I was driving along 9th in Midlothian & was wondering the same thing mommyfox. I was just coming here to ask Lou if those were rainlilies. About a block north of the high school, Lou.

Ok they ARE rain lilies! How cool. I stopped the car and ran out and looked and ran back. I was scared someone was going to stop and ask if I needed help, and I'd have to tell them that I had stopped to look at a flower. >.> NOT CRAZY REALLY! They were pretty - some white, some white and pink. There were also some wild morning glories blooming around there, which was cool because they haven't been around this year.

Oh, Mommy, I do that aaaalll the time. The last time I did it, I looked up and saw a cop car parked in front of mine. *gulp* I walked up behind him and waved into his rear-view mirror, so as not to get shot by coming up beside his car! He just didn't see me and noticed my purse locked in the car, etc. I was so lost in my own little wildlife world, I don't know how long he had been there. LOL!

Depending on what other Rainlilies you want to add but
most of them have no scent.That is where hybridizing can
sometime help crossing back to a species that has fragrance. Enjoy reguardless ! Zephranthes Grandiflora
has nice BIG Lavender Flowers and is a lot more floriferous
and sets tons of viable seed.Enjoy!

I'm so excited b/c I finally got some of the yellow rain lilies. I dug them up last week at my mom's before she mowed them over. They are now under one of the trees in the backyard where I can see them from my window. :-)

I just found some white ones in my yard today. Some of them have a little pink on the edges. I don't know how the poor things survived the summer here. We had a little shower last night that must have made them pop up and this spring I had yellow ones bloom. I don't know where they came from since I never saw any last year and it rained all summer, lol.

My Prairie Sunset rain lilies haven't set any seeds but they are the most beautiful ones I have. Except when the grasshoppers eat the flowers. Any one have an idea on how to stop them. Don't say marigolds because I already have some and they ignore the marigolds and go right for my rain lilies and cannas. Arghhhh!

Kaolin clay is supposed to stop up their little insides (constipate them to death?)

I've been watering a pot of something that I forgot what it was all summer, had begun to wonder if it was onions or some such, & today it bloomed...

beautiful white rainlilies!

Sylviatexas, Can I giggle a little bit over constipated grasshoppers. LOL. Okay I'm done now. How should I apply the kaolin clay? brush, makeup sponge... Okay I'm giggling again.

with a Q-tip, of course!

snork!

I've always gone the lowest-tech way with almost everything, so I'd probably just fling it willy-nilly, but if you want a more consistant application, a big sifter-type thing would be good, something like those 8" or 10" wide tea strainers that you find in generic dollar stores.

I always mix kaolin clay with water and spray it on. That way it sticks real good. I'm afraid if you just throw it, it may just blow away. But it does turn everything a ghostly white.

I don't know anything that really controls grasshoppers. I wish some creature ate them all up. Surely they must have some nutritional value. Maybe you can catch them and throw them into a pond somewhere filled with piranas.

Sorry, Paintbrush, piranhas are a tropical species from the Amazon in South America. So they freeze to the ground every winter. They might come back in zone 10, but in our zone 8 they're considered annuals.

*laughs uproariously because it's 6:30 in the morning.*

Mommy, you gots to put them in the garage in the winter!

For those of you who traded for my rain lilies in the spring swap, here's what yours will look like if you leave them in one spot (I think I moved these here a year ago, no more than 2 years).

I have a couple of "clumps" and they were all blooming last week when I went to Quitman. Outstanding!

Lin

I forgot to mention, I think these are Zephyranthes candida, and they stay mostly evergreen.

I love Rain Lilies!!

Lin