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We moved to a new house in May, never watered the lawn (doing extensive landscaping changes) and in August this single pink lily magicall...Read More
I bought a house in southern MN 17 years ago. The first year I discovered the Surprise lilies in the flower bed, and some came up in the ...Read More
I'm in zone 7. Last year, I received about 40 Naked Ladies from a lady who said she thins hers out every few years because they multiply ...Read More
Finally I am glad to discover "naked ladies" have other names ! My dear mom-in-law loved them and would direct us to see them in her area...Read More
I live in Lakeville Minnesota (zone 4) and received this bulb over 8 years ago in a package of Peruvian Daffodils. I didn't get a peruvia...Read More
So my naked ladies greens are coming up in the various gardens. These flowers look so much better in a mass, and I unfortunately planted...Read More
I was given a surprise lily by a friend and was told to plant it in shade or partial shade. I now have many plants in this location and s...Read More
Billings, Montana area, zone 4... it surprised me, all right. House sat empty and neglected for 3 years before we got it, so it dates bac...Read More
I just came across this article and am happy I finally know what this beautiful flower is!
As I was tidying up my spent da...Read More
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I live in Los Angeles and I have purchased a clump of bulbs from a local house sale.
In mid summer the long s...Read More
If you dig up an old stand, the bulbs will be from 4 - 6 inches deep in Zone 5. Not on the surface and not partially exposed. The bulbs...Read More
Received mine in June and I had 2 bloom in August. One even has seed pods on it. With all the comments requesting patience for Lycoris ...Read More
These do not like disturbance. If overcrowded, they're best divided in June when the foliage dies down, and replanted immediately without...Read More
I planted these March 2013 and pretty much forgot about them.
August 1 I found them popped up, and opening... very prett...Read More
The funny thing was that I bought bulbs from a store and the package must have been mislabeled. I planted what I thought were "other" bul...Read More
Surprise lily was most definitely a surprise for me. It took 8 years to bloom! I didn't give up on them b/c from the very first season...Read More
Like so many others, I was unfamiliar with this plant but was pleasantly surprised when it came up "out of nowhere". We had only been in ...Read More
Surprise lily grows in the courtyard at the University of Minnesota Biological Sciences Greenhouse. I haven't been around in late summer ...Read More
A friend from a Church in Monticello, Illinois gave me over 100 bulbs to plant in Medina, NY. I gave some to my siblings and the rest we...Read More
When I moved to Wisconsin several years ago, I was saddened when I learned that "Naked Ladies" were not supposed to be hardy in zone 4a. ...Read More
This plant truly lives up to its name of "Surprise Lily"! Late in the summer it appears and year time I see it I am totally surprised. ...Read More
My daughter found a pile of them about 4 yrs. ago. washed up against a tree in the woods on the other side of our creek, the Manatawny in...Read More
What.can.be.done.w/the.red.colored.seeds.that.are.produced.after.the.
flowering.stage?
Can.they.be.placed.in.the.ground.to....Read More
Patience!!
Okay- the billionth note on this plant (quite the hot topic!). I have planted this bulb in two different gard...Read More
As of currently, it hadn't bloom for me for four or five years - and to add a note, the other genus that also contain the name surprise l...Read More
I received about 8 bulbs from a neighbor many years ago as we were getting ready to move, so I planted them at our new house in a corner ...Read More
My residence in the hamlet of Furnessville in the Indiana Dunes has hundreds of these Surprise lilies and thriving in several areas and f...Read More
We have lived in this house since June of 2000. Every spring these leaves have come up on the southwest side of the house and died back. ...Read More
I live in zone 4 in westcentral Wisconsin. We get REALLY cold winters, and I have had this plant for about 20 years. Some years we get ...Read More
What a surprise when my husband and I moved into our 40-year-old "new" house and found these (at the time unknown to us) beautiful, slend...Read More
I grow them in large pots and keep them out of the direct sunlight. One stem in August had 8 flowers
It's always nice to have a beautiful flower appear in a hot, dry period of summer. They come back faithfully year after year, and ask fo...Read More
These plants have beautiful foilage and flowers. They grow on top of the soil in Perris. We brought two bulbs from San Fernando Valley...Read More
The durn things grow when & where they want. But I wouldn't be without them. They grow all over here in and arround Lindsborg, Ks. Jus...Read More
This plant is an old timer in the Shenandoah Valley and central piedmont area of Virginia. You can find it around old abandoned houses a...Read More
A friend had these growing in her back yard, they were going to plow them under... so I took all I could dig... hundreds of bulbs! I pla...Read More
I first ran into "naked lady lilies" in CA on a trip in Aug 2002 and fell in love with the color and way they grew. I've since received ...Read More
I have to remember to fertilize in the spring when the foliage is showing in order to get them to bloom in my poor sandy soil, but it's worth it.
I moved into a house that already had these planted. I didn't know what they were until late summer. What a pleasant surprise when I sa...Read More
Dug some clumps of bulbs from my mother-in-law's and stuck them in the ground at home. They've been doing well for 6 years, now. They g...Read More
These bulbs should only be divided when absolutely necessary because they sulk and sometimes don't bloom the next year. Lift the bulbs wh...Read More
I think mine were planted about 6 in. deep here in zone 6 in Illinois. I planted them behind my smaller bushes and some inback of my fo...Read More
I have seen these bulbs bloom where thrown out on top of the soil - in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. In California's coastal climate,...Read More