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Naked ladies

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Shh, if Sorto finds out she'll make Jo put clothes on them!

Okay, I knew they were also called Naked Ladies.

But, I didn't want to cause ANY problems for Sorto, specially since I "damned" a caterpillar in her wonderful Baby Birds story.

So there.

I debated with myself for a hot second before posting their other name.

LOL!!! Not at all surprised that it only took ONE second for you to make up your mind on that!

They're also known as Resurrection Lillies and Magic Lillies, and their proper name is Lycoris squamigera; they are members of the Amaryllis family of flowers. That's probably a MUCH nicer collection of names than Naked Ladies -- at least, where Sorto is concerned.

I've only known them as NL.

Jo, we've got those things growing wild EVERYWHERE!
I thought they were asparagus sprouts when they first started coming up. The wife accused me of weed-eating 'em down, but I didn't.

She was "surprised" when they finally did come up & bloom.

Russ, they grow wild here too! I was shocked as can be the first year I lived here, when the leaves died off so quickly. Thought maybe my nutty Yellow Lab had done something to them. And then got the beautiful flowers a few months later -- what a wonderful surprise!

They've spread quite a bit over the last five years. I'm going to move them before the tree man comes to take down that dead tree, so that nothing happens to them.