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By Anita Garner<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Naked Ladies show up in the oddest places in Northern California in July and all through August.\u00a0 Clumps of them, pink and fragrant, with up to a dozen beautiful blooms on each leafless stem. They’re\u00a0 energetic.\u00a0 They’re sturdy.\u00a0\u00a0 They’re random.<\/p>\n

They scatter all over the countryside in Napa and Sonoma and Marin in places where no one would have thought to plant them.\u00a0 All of a sudden comes this magic in a distinct shade of pink, from a bed of weeds, a crack in a sidewalk, along fences, lining a country road, and in no particular formation. You have to smile at their tenacity and because critters don’t like them, they stay around a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’s something mysterious and charming about them so I had to look it up.\u00a0 Read on if you want to know too.<\/p>\n

They’re in the lily family, starting life as a bulb. During the winter a plant with leaves appears, looking like any other plant.\u00a0 Then the leaves die away and you can easily forget about them. A few months later during hot weather, up pops a bare stalk then another and another.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I wanted to know how they get scattered all over the place. Turns out they drop seeds which insure surprise sightings in years to come.\u00a0 Once a bulb’s planted, you’ll never know how many will show up next season.<\/p>\n

People say Naked Ladies are practically indestructible, but I assumed I\u2019d lost the ones in my yard in Mill Valley a few years ago. A tree had to be removed right next to where the Naked Ladies bloomed the summer before.\u00a0 Along with the tree and its roots, everything went.\u00a0 Only dirt was left.<\/p>\n

Then came the summer and overnight one bare stalk started pushing up, then another, beautiful and fragrant and naked.<\/p>\n

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