Yesterday my house in George West got 1/2 inch of rain and last night we got about 3 inches in San Antonio (along with some hail). First of all, we can really use the rain. La Nina is already here so every drop we get will have to last a long time.

Seconds, if you were blessed by this rain storm, give it a few days and start your patrol looking for rain lilies. First you'll see one might think "how cute!" But this is what that one plant will become if you don't keep after it.



I guess people actually buy these things. Once they get into your lawn, they are a beast. They pop up fast after a hard rain. They come from a bulb which lives about 8 inches down. If you let them go to seed, next time it rains you'll have about 30x more than you started with.

I have them. In pots--they're not frost tolerant, so those get stored over the winter downstairs.

They do reproduce fast and the pots require digging and splitting about every two to three years!