When my daughter brought me a big tub of bulbed plants early this spring, & I thought they were all Daffodils. I moved them to a garden bed where the Daffodils bloomed & are long-gone now. Yesterday I noticed this:


We recently had the hedge clipped (as evidenced by the leaf mess among these plants), so I don't know if this flower stalk had been standing up but had gotten trampled, or not... I don't think it normally lays on the ground like this.


A friend was recently telling me about a weird looking Lilly that she has, that sends up a tall shoot of flowers & look kind of goofy standing there all alone, before the leaves get going... & when the flower is gone, the leaves start growing & stay for a long time. She called it a "Naked Lady Lilly". Another friend told me that they're also called "Surprise Lilly". Is that what this is?

i ddon't know what those are, but i do know about a lily that grows here calledd a surprise or huricane lily. doesn't look like yours.

i thought i had a pictture. i will hhave to keep looking.

i'd love one that looked like yours!

u r thinking of Amaryllis belladonna, check 2 c if that is your plant

No it's not a naked lady. They are light pink and bloom in August, and are about 3 feet high on the stem.

Well, It's not August but these are pink & the stem is 3 feet tall. The leaves are almost identical to Dafodill leaves but are a bit "grassier" in texture.

(It's definitely NOT an Amaryllis.)

OK, so far we've identified what it ISN'T... Does ANYBODY know what it IS?

Gosh that's pretty!!!

well, anyone want guess? these are so pretty!

Well I do not have a guess...But the surprise lily's I have are red and bloom mid summer and the leaves do lay down like that, but are a darker green with a stripe. It is very pretty though!!!

The plant I have in my current flower bed and have always called a surprise lily is about 4 to 6 inches high now and just the green "stalk" like leaves are visable, and are standing straight up now, but will droop some later on in the season--those will die and sometime this summer/fall up will pop a approximately 2 ft woody looking stalk-(no leaves then) with several pale pink lilly like flowers on the end. Am I calling my plant by the correct name?

It reminds me of a rain lily (Zephyranthes) possibly Zephyranthes macrosiphon.

Donna

JunieGirl-
What you are describing sounds like a magic lily.