Not only do I have naked ladies in my flower garden, but they are really putting on quite a show.

The naked ladies, of course, are not the kind you would see in a strip club. They’re plants and are among the most strikingly beautiful flowers in Southern gardens. The story of how they got here from Japan is pretty interesting as well.

First, I am a little bit like hummingbirds in the sense that I love red flowers. Naked ladies are about as red as red gets, and the arrangement of the crinkled petals and the extraordinarily long, sweeping stamens in a graceful flower cluster makes for an irresistible sight. I can’t drive by a colony of naked ladies without looking.

The common name derives from the fact that the flower stalks appear long after the foliage has died back. They just pop up fro

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