It is always a pleasant surprise to go into the garden on a hot and humid August day to find that, quite literally overnight, Elizabeth Lawrence's Lycoris albiflora are blooming.
"Today, the seventeenth of March, is the Feast of Saint Patrick... In our family, though our attitudes are Anglo-Saxon, we always wear the green for Saint Patrick, and feel for him great affection, for his feast is my mother's birthday."
