I think these are naked ladies. what is wrong with them?

don't know what to make of this. leaves are pitiful

sorry, accidentaly lost my better picture. you can see ugly foliage on the lower right corner of pic.

Habe you had them before? I think the foliage is suppose to die and then the flower stalk comes up, hence the name Naked Ladies, no leaves.

Hey Voss ~ an the bottom / center of your pic, are those lilies that are done blooming? If that is the case, then the time might be right for them to die back. Mine don't die back until around the first of July (I think!) Maybe someone from your area will weigh in here with some advice.

Mine die back this time of year. I just ran the lawn mower over mine yesterday because they looked so bad. They will be back come Sept. with a bloom. Here's part of mine last fall in bloom

thanks everybody. This is my first year with them, so I know nothing about them. I think these were planted in Jan. 2006
Moby, bottom center is lily Sorpresa, a walmart purchase. Those babies have beem blooming for at least two weeks. I am delighted with them.
georgiaRC, i love that row planting.

vossner,

The naked ladies AKA surprise lilies come up beautiful and green, then die back.

Sometime in July or August (where I live) they shoot up these gorgeous blooms.

If you need more...let me know.

Dee

thanks for the offer, Dee. I will certainly save your name. I will report here later on.

The surprise lily and the spider lily do the same thing just the blooming season is a little different. I have a row of the surprise lilies back of the spider lilies. Wish I could get them to bloom at the same time. Here is a picture of both the spider and the surprise made earlier this spring. I have probably 500 of the spider in at least 4 beds. The surprise only in this bed. Here the spider lily is called naked lady and other places the surprise is called naked lady. I call the picture attached here "Naked Ladies In Traning." I made this picture while cleaning out a bed up the drive way so just imagine the weeds on the drive way aren't there. The ones next to the drive way is the spider.

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What weeds? ;)

Well the dark matter on the drive. I think it might be leaves and weeds. I was using the leaf blower to get them all together.
Moby do you have any of these or are you zone hardy.

Here's my surprise lily.

Yep, that's the kind I have that are hardy here ~ Lycoris

Are the spider lilies hardy also?

I think we're on the border of being hardy. Believe I've seen some around town in the past, but not many.

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I got some as part of a trade with a californian a few yrs ago and always assumed I'd just been lucky that they keep coming back. That was the yr I moved and they are still in the same location under some giant hosta! I have to get them out of there.... The foliage looks terrible and they have never bloomed because the hosta I think wouldn't let them - but here they are again this spring right back again. I never knew there was a difference between surprise lily and naked ladies... My grandmother who lived in MN always had naked ladies and would Tee Hee every time she said it.

Good thread, I learned something here.

Will they grow in zone 4?

beaker_ch..

I sent quite a few bubls to Paridise in Canada last year.

I haven't heard from her lately..so I don't know if they returned this year.

Dee

Lycoris squamigera is hardy in the Minneapolis area. I have grown them for 15 years. Squamigera appears to be what is in all the pics here except Georgiaredclay's, which I believe to be Lycoris radiata-not zone 4 hardy (at least that is what the books say).

Rick

Yep, GRC has lots of radiata, too.

thanks, everybody.

update: During my morning inspection today I noticed the leaves were totally gone. I have no plant eating pests that would have eaten the leaves.

was this supposed to happen? what next, glorious blooms????

Shouldn't be too much longer ~ probably not more than a month? I always forget to notice...then surprise! That's the fun of it. :)

oh boy!

I got some of these from Moby (thank you, Moby!) in 2004 and the leaves came up last year, but no blooms. This year one leaf got about 5 inches tall and is already dying off. Is that right? Seems like the first year it had more leaves and they hung around longer.