Plant ID (reply)

One fine day Deb Fisher wrote:

>>A friend of mine has a plant, and we don't know the proper name (botanical)
>>for it.  She was told it is called "Naked Ladies".  The foliage comes up in
>>the spring, dies completely back, then it sends up its flower shoots, which
>>are just now blooming (Zone 5 - upstate NY).  The flower looks just like an
>>oriental/asiatic lily.  There are five to six pretty pink blossoms at the
>>end of one very long, leafless stalk (about 3 foot high), with stamens (I
>>think that's the name for the center part) that stick out of the flower.
>>Anyway, we were curious what they might properly be called.  They grow well
>>in the shade, and are quite pretty. 

These sound like Amerilis belladona, the smaller kind would be
Colchicums, spring and autummn flowering corms.  The goblet-like flowers
appear first, followed as you say by the the strap-like foliage.  Most
of the Colchicums are around 4 to 10 inches in height.  Most are frost
hardy and can be propagated by seed or division.
-- 
Graham Leatherbarrow.
  
Graham's Paradise Garden
http://www.maigold.co.uk
English Town Gardening 
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