Spider Lilies (Lycoris) start their dramatic show in the late summer or early fall, usually after a good soaking rain. They are quite colorful on their 1- to 2-foot-tall stems.

Growing in dense colonies, the spider lily's large, white flowers, sitting atop 3-foot stems, are breathtaking. Making the flowers even more stunning is the natural habitat in which they live.

White spider lily flowers in clusters of six to eight blooms on 12- to 18-inch stalks with long, curved stamens, making it an excellent cut flower. Leaves emerge in fall and die in spring.

And there’s the native white spider lily, Hymenocallis galvestonenis, which has dark-green, broad straplike foliage and white summer blooms with recurving petals around a center trumpet. This is ...

It's September in the South, and the spider lilies have begun to bloom again. There they are, with their long, green leafless stalks and crowns of crimson flowers, looking a bit like red daddy ...

Fall is a good time to plant spider lilies, if you can find the bulbs. Although they have been planted in our country since at least the 1800s and are long-lived, they are not common.

Some people call them spider lilies because of their white flowers' thin sepals, which can measure 11 inches long - but not my people.

Local Spider lilies ready for their close-up at SC’s Landsford Canal State Park By JOEY HOLLEMAN - [email protected] May 27, 2014 12:19 PM ...