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Post by coppice on Jun 8, 2017 16:02:16 GMT -5
Also known as resurection lili. Don't love yours up too much past setting them out deep in zone 5.
The grower who gave them away at the Athens (OH) farmers market. offered to buy back any you returned to him.
Makes a big old onion-y looking bulb and benefits from neglect. The patch here was from two bulbs that were simply tossed out on the lawn. Eight-ten years later there were fifty in a patch. (note I said thrown out on lawn and not planted).
Has a nice green top in the spring and by June 1st they are all passed away. 'Bout September there will a couple lilies with no greens in their place. Pink, the flower is very very pink.
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Post by paulf on Jun 9, 2017 12:52:40 GMT -5
Our yard has several rows of Naked Ladies planted by my wife's mother and/or grandmother a long time ago. For maybe fifty or sixty years the Surprise Lilies have kept coming back.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 9, 2017 13:54:04 GMT -5
I need to pick up some of those. They are cute and the surprise blooms are so much fun.
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Post by september on Jun 10, 2017 19:26:12 GMT -5
Never heard of them before! Too bad it is too cold for them to survive here. Beautiful!
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Post by paulf on Jun 10, 2017 19:58:20 GMT -5
There are a couple of varieties or types that list zone 3, but most are from zone 5-8.
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Post by september on Jun 10, 2017 23:48:17 GMT -5
I do have some potted smaller old fashioned amaryllis that are descended from some that my mom had 60 years ago. Don't know where she got hers, they are not the huge ones you see now.
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