Saturday, September 8, 2012

Spider Lilies


My red spider lilies are in bloom now, perhaps a little late after a rather dry summer.

I was looking at my passalong plant book for information about them.  They were called naked ladies in the book.  We passalong gardeners usually think of the tall, large pink lilies that bloom in late July as naked  ladies. 

The two flowers have in common the classification Lycoris and the luxuriant green foliage that appears in the spring and then dies back to the ground. So obviously they are relatives.  Their bare stems do give each the naked lady name. 




These are the large pink naked ladies.

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