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Can you name this flower?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....  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.....  A few more bits of autumn colour.....    ......and a heather.. 
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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...07/gspot07.xml |
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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 |
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Think this is it Mags..  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. |
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Thanks for solving the mystery, ladies!  Thank goodness you were careful with your googling DM, you may have ended up with a red face!  I must be wary of telling neighbours (especially men! ) that I have a Naked Lady in my garden this year!!  |
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Ha! I wasn't too far off, Mags, Lycoris are in the Amaryllis family! That's a lovely flower! |
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That was a very good guess then Eileen! |
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