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Funny Names, Fantastic Plants

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Meet the Bulb Lady®

Debbie Van Bourgondien

She’s as close to a gardening evangelist as you can get. Whether participating in her workshops, chatting in line at the grocery store, or just a chance encounter on the street Debbie is always ready to make a new friend and share her passion for gardens and plants.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 1 comment

We often receive questions about flowers that have strange or different names:

"I am looking for some of these bulbs -Naked Lady (surprise lily) - but they must go by another name. Are you familiar with them?"

They go by several names, but their Latin name is Lycoris... By the way, the common name "Naked Ladies" comes from the fact the bulbs produce leaves in one season (spring or fall depending on the species) and foliage during the opposite season... so the flowers never have foliage and therefore are "naked." We are carrying the red form (L. radiata) this spring, but we also carry several other colors in the fall catalog.

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Catie D. -

http://whatcatiedid.blogspot.com/

"They produce leaves during one season and foliage during the next"? Our Lycoris radiata produce flowers one season and foliage the next...;)

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