From my kitchen, I saw something pink moving with the breeze in the back garden earlier this month.

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I immediately ran out to check what it could be and was very surprised to find a 2 ft. leafless stalk with 5 small buds, one blooming lily-like flowers. The stalk seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, near some low-growing perennials and a red Japanese maple tree.

As the temperature dropped farther down, I decided to cut off the stem, bring it indoors and put it in a tall vase. They opened up one by one over a period of several days.

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It gives me such a pleasure to watch it day after day.

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That was also a good move to beat the recent frost.

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What an opportunity for me to watch and photograph the sequence of the blooming process!

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These autumn spider lilies belong in the genus Lycoris and Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae).