Lycoris

I love your idea of growing the Lycoris with the Matrona Sedum both of which I have.

Emergence « Fairegarden 2009

These may look like daffodils with a wider blade but are Lycoris squamigera, Surprise Lilies or Naked Ladies.

Emergence « Fairegarden 2009

The surprise lilies, Lycoris squamigera are blooming!

Back To The Garden « Fairegarden 2008

Men with vivid imaginations create for themselves a paradise peopled with the most beautiful houris, more seductive than those of Mahomet; Lycoris had a beautiful body but it was unfeeling; the imagination of her lover pictured her as falling before his caresses, he led her by the hand over pressed flowers, through a thick grove and along limpid streams; in that sweet reverie his life slipped by.

Satyricon 2007

Men with vivid imaginations create for themselves a paradise peopled with the most beautiful houris, more seductive than those of Mahomet; Lycoris had a beautiful body but it was unfeeling; the imagination of her lover pictured her as falling before his caresses, he led her by the hand over pressed flowers, through a thick grove and along limpid streams; in that sweet reverie his life slipped by.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Here are cool springs, soft mead and grove, Lycoris;

The Bucolics and Eclogues 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Here icy cold fountains, here flower covered meadows, Lycoris;

The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

'Pauca meo Gallo, sed quae legat ipsa Lycoris, carmina sunt dicenda; neget quis carmina Gallo?'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Men with vivid imaginations create for themselves a paradise peopled with the most beautiful houris, more seductive than those of Mahomet; Lycoris had a beautiful body but it was unfeeling; the imagination of her lover pictured her as falling before his caresses, he led her by the hand over pressed flowers, through a thick grove and along limpid streams; in that sweet reverie his life slipped by.

The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Here icy cold fountains, here flower covered meadows, Lycoris;

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter