Showing posts with label AugustBlooming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AugustBlooming. Show all posts

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Magick Resurrection Lillies, Naked Lady Lillies



The last pic repeatedly shows up turned sideways, but the flowers in it just seem to glow. I took the pics without a flash, just pulled back the curtain & let the sun light them. Triple digit heat again, 100; I was hoping the forecast was wrong, 99F at 6 p.m.-hideous!

I put these beautiful fleurs in my black hobnail vase, it's sooo different from the white hobnail that I have. The fleurs are pastel pink when just opening, then fade to an opalescent pinkish ivory. They have a beautiful scent, delicately sweet & almost like peonies but without that carrot undertone in peonies.

These come in bulbs, like daffodils & are easy to find. In spring just the long strappy leaves pop out of the ground; I water them & feed them monthly with just any regular plant food/fertilizer-but I start to add bonemeal in May.

Bonemeal was difficult to find this year, it usually is available in every garden section, I'd get it at Rite-Aid, Kmart, Home Depot, Target. It helps the plants to give more flowers & also strengthen the roots; I use only bonemeal in November on the hydrangias, winter honeysuckle, roses, etc. to help them over the winter.