The Naked Ladies, sometimes called Surprise Lilies are blooming all over town. They're a surprise because they have no foliage. They have pretty foliage in Spring, but, it dies out and when you've forgotten about it..pop!..up they come. Aren't they pretty? I think it's a town law that everyone must have a few of these.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Naked Ladies
The Naked Ladies, sometimes called Surprise Lilies are blooming all over town. They're a surprise because they have no foliage. They have pretty foliage in Spring, but, it dies out and when you've forgotten about it..pop!..up they come. Aren't they pretty? I think it's a town law that everyone must have a few of these.
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Those are very interesting! Indeed a nice surpsire!
I have a few of them. I never planted anything like that...they just came up on their own. I pick them and bring them in the house and they smell sooo good!
Isn't that the most amazing thing! I'll look around for some of those for next year.
I once had several miniature red tulips blossom directly on the soil one spring. No foliage or anything. But that was because I was a garden noob and planted the bulbs way too deep. Amazing they made the journey up to sunlight at all.
I LOVE them. They remind me a little of Bear Grass. Out in the west, every now and then--there it is! I think the Naked Ladies are prettier, but the Bear Grass was always a surprise when we'd come across it on a hike.
Those flowers are so pretty.
I love trumpet vines. They have little shooters that come up all around the plant on the ground. You could dig one of them up. I think my mom would soak a vine in water too. They are a strange plant. In the spring they look completely dead. But there is still life in that brittle vine.
My kids picked me some of those yesterday & we never knew what they were called. Now we do. One day we can go out & their everywhere & the next day their gone,but their so pretty when we got them.
I had never seen these before and I'm typically pretty observant, especially if there's anything pretty to look at. Yesterday, on my way to dinner, I pull up to a stop sign, look to my right and boom. Whole patch of them at this darling little house on the corner. It's funny how once you become aware of something, you see it everywhere and have no idea how you missed it before.
Frimmy, I can send you some Naked Lady bulbs in return for white Columbine seeds.
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