While so many flowers are finishing their bloom and leaving their drying foliage behind, naked lady, Amaryllis belladonna, is just beginning to bloom, naked of any foliage. Clusters of a few to several bright pink flowers stand on bare stems about two feet tall. Individual flowers are about two and a half to three and a half inches long, and resemble lily flowers. Foliage only appears after flowers deteriorate, and lasts only until weather gets warm late in spring. The strap shaped leaves are about a foot to a foot and a half long. Through summer, the two or three inch wide bulbs are dormant and bare, and seem to be dead with their tops visible at the soil surface, but retain fleshy roots below. They should therefore only be dug and divided if they get too crowded or need to be moved.
Tony Tomeo 
I can grow other amaryllis outside, but Naked Ladies did not like my garden.
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Goodness! It grows like a weed here, and is naturalized on roadsides. There is quite a bit of it right outside. There is only one other Amaryllis or something that is related to it that is naturalized here, and it is more docile. The others prefer to retain their foliage later, so want more water through the year.
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I think it was too wet here.
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Oh, so its dormancy was interrupted, or it did not know when to go dormant. I did not think of that. It may rely on long andry summers.
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