If there is ever a time to just sit and marvel at the abundance of flowers in the garden it's now - as the lilies bloom. Over the years I have tried a lot of different lilies and had varying success, but these are the days that make all that trial and error worth it.
What do you like? Yellow .?.. check!
Darker yellow? ... also check!
Gold? Sure!
Striped? Easy as pie!
Red? it gets better and better!
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| Yes, it looks coral to me, too. True red is still under construction in the lily world. |
Oops - i forgot black!
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| This one came from Andre Viette - at his farm. |
How about a calla?
or, two?
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| These are not supposed to be hardy here - this one came from our "old" house 17 years ago. Still going strong, altho the color changes slightly from years to year. |
And, you've already met the tree lily ...
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| Does it occur to anyone that for a girl who doesn't like yellow flowers, I have a lot of them? |
I have not had a lot of success with some of the fancy orientals, but it may have been placement or the amount of clay in our soil. My asiatics lasted only a couple of years - again, placement, or clay? And, there are many I haven't tried, but you can bet that I will be scouring the catalogs for early-blooming and late-blooming varieties to add to my inventory for next year. I've already spotted a pretty pink one in my neighbor's yard that I'm going to request.
The new pink ones I planted last fall have not yet bloomed, but soon ...
Lilies are just too pretty to not have more!
