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When my brother and I were little, we overheard my mother one morning telling my dad that some naked ladies popped up through our driveway. We ran outside to see who these brazen naked ladies were (was it the drunken lady and her friends from accross the street?) Seeing no naked ladies, we ran down the street and knocked on several of our neighbors doors to see if they had spotted the naked ladies walking up someone elses driveway. We were rather dissappointed to learn that they were just sprouts of pink lillies; but the adults all had a great laugh at our expense!
Oh we have hundreds of naked ladies in Northern Calif, they love the high desert climes...they pop up & bloom so pretty, then die.
Then the heat sets in, up to 113 all summer from late May until the late October rains set in...and then pow!
The leaves grow up...ALL the native plants in the high desert area go dormant in the heat except the oaks, and there alot of varieties there.
One of my favorite is the California Buckeye, which grows leaves & blooms in early spring..by summer heat in June it appears to die..but slowly you notice the big "balls" which are their nuts, growing until the trees are covered by only these hanging nuts..then in fall's rains, the tree wakes up and grows leaves again over the winter & the nuts fall..washed down the muddy hillsides to root.
Their nuts are similar to a horse chestnut, but the tree looks fig-like.
We had a HUGE Buckeye on the hill behind out house. I love the blooms.
When my brother and I were little, we overheard my mother one morning telling my dad that some naked ladies popped up through our driveway. We ran outside to see who these brazen naked ladies were (was it the drunken lady and her friends from accross the street?) Seeing no naked ladies, we ran down the street and knocked on several of our neighbors doors to see if they had spotted the naked ladies walking up someone elses driveway. We were rather dissappointed to learn that they were just sprouts of pink lillies; but the adults all had a great laugh at our expense!
Oh we have hundreds of naked ladies in Northern Calif, they love the high desert climes...they pop up & bloom so pretty, then die.
Then the heat sets in, up to 113 all summer from late May until the late October rains set in...and then pow!
The leaves grow up...ALL the native plants in the high desert area go dormant in the heat except the oaks, and there alot of varieties there.
One of my favorite is the California Buckeye, which grows leaves & blooms in early spring..by summer heat in June it appears to die..but slowly you notice the big "balls" which are their nuts, growing until the trees are covered by only these hanging nuts..then in fall's rains, the tree wakes up and grows leaves again over the winter & the nuts fall..washed down the muddy hillsides to root.
Their nuts are similar to a horse chestnut, but the tree looks fig-like.
We had a HUGE Buckeye on the hill behind out house. I love the blooms.
