Well that's what my choir director called hers. They have quite a few names. Most of the older yards around here have some of these. My grandmother told me, when people thinned out plants they always gave them to neighbors, so there are common flowers all around. Makes the neighborhood pretty. jeffrey
I have some out back and am waiting for them to pop up.After this summer I am not sure they will. They are Amaryllis Belladonna L. ...aka Belladonna lily and Naked Lady for their habit of producing stalks with blooms in late summer after the leaves have bloomed and died away.
I remember those from my wild back yard as a kid - my Dad would call them naked ladies. Sure enough one pops up every year near the back fence of my home now. Guess neighbors would share them.
Are these the same as mystery lilies or resurrection lilies? The ones that I'm talking about first have foliage that appears in spring, then it dies off. Suddenly in the summer, in their place appears these flowers on bare stems. I see those growing around here and always think about planting them.
Netty, I'm also in zone 5 so I had looked them up to see if I could grow them, sorry to say they are slated for zones 7-11. Bummer for us.....
They are lovely. We've only got the naked maidens, Colchicum autumnale (autumn crocus, naked lady, meadow saffron). They're nice, though. They look like oversized crocus, but without the foliage, and bloom in September/October. The foliage comes up in spring and dies off in July.
They are lovely and I have heard of that name before for them. I have not seen any lily like that in our area. Maybe they do not grown in this zone or cold weather....thanks for sharing..
Sherry and Terry, I see these all over the place around here. (I did some research and did discover that they are the same as resurrection lilies.) Certainly if they can do well in my zone (southern WI), they would do fine where you are. All of the info that I am reading says that they are hardy for zones 5-10. I may try to plant some of them this fall myself.
Those are just beautiful and my colors for sure.Thank you for posting them so we can enjoy them along with you.
I used to have a big batch of them. Several years ago I took out a big flower bed and tossed about 200 bulbs. My mother used to call them reserection lillys. Here they bloom about mid to late August.
Aileen, they smell as sweet as they look. Netty, I am in zone 5, they grow just wonderfully around here, and take almost no maintainance, just thin them every ten years or so. Yes they are the ones that in the spring they have plenty of leaves, that completely disappear, then in Aug they pop up with the flowers. That's why my grandmother called them resurrection lilies. Oh No Capt Kirk, Grandma said it was a sin to throw out flower bulbs. It's hard to find neighbors that want them these days. Thank you all for your kind comments, looks like more are coming up.
