Can you name this flower?

[Mags]

For the last two years this plant has grown plenty of leaves but it flowered for the first time this year. I must have planted a bulb or something and have no idea what it's called....:roll:

It showed in one of my earlier garden pics and Eileen asked if the leaves were of an Amaryllis but I knew it wasn't that. All the leaves died off before the flower appeared.....

http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/16701Pinkbulbplus151007%20013.jpg




http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/16701Pinkbulbplus151007 013.jpg






A few more bits of autumn colour.....

http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/6637Pinkbulbplus151007%20002.jpg






http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/17677Pinkbulbplus151007%20016.jpg






http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/21348Pinkbulbplus151007%20018.jpg






......and a heather..

http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/8275Pinkbulbplus151007%20021.jpg

[dinahsmum]

That's Naked Ladies Mags! As you say, only the leaves or the flower show at any one time - hence their nakedness. Sorry i can't remember the proper name - it's Nemeris or similar Try a google! :)

Edit There you go - it's on this link - just scroll down a bit! Nerine! (and I was very careful to google 'flower naked ladies' Heaven knows what I might have got without using flower!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/main.jhtml?xml=/gardening/2006/10/07/gspot07.xml

[charliebubs]

LOL @ you two!!!! ;)

Lovely pics Mags. My garden has gone all drap and colour-less again. What a waste of all the money I spent in the garden centre in July :roll:

[Moli]

Think this is it Mags..


http://www.pallensmith.com/images/mailbox/surpriselily_mega.jpg
Lycoris - These bulbs are the surprise of the late summer garden. The flowers emerge before their foliage when little else is in bloom. There are two popular forms: Lycoris squamigeria, naked lady, and Lycoris radiata, spider lily. Naked ladies have pink trumpet shaped blooms and spider lilies have a red, delicate, spider like flower. Grow in full sun to partial shade, well-drained soil. Best grown in Southern gardens where the bulbs can stay in the ground over winter because bloom performance improves each year. Zones 7 through 10.

[Mags]

Thanks for solving the mystery, ladies!:D

Thank goodness you were careful with your googling DM, you may have ended up with a red face! :-D

I must be wary of telling neighbours (especially men!:roll:) that I have a Naked Lady in my garden this year!! :lol:

[Grete]

I must be wary of telling neighbours (especially men!:roll:) that I have a Naked Lady in my garden this year!! :lol:

:lol: Oh I dunno, would probably get you lots of visitors :-D

[Mags]

:lol: Oh I dunno, would probably get you lots of visitors :-D
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[dandysmom]

Ha! I wasn't too far off, Mags, Lycoris are in the Amaryllis family! That's a lovely flower!

[Mags]

That was a very good guess then Eileen! :D