I thought maybe this was a delphinium, but the foliage...............
I like the way the orange gradually breaks through the green......
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8 comments:
Lovely photos of orange day lillies. I'm trying to track them down in France as they always seem so easy to grow.
Thanks, and thanks for the visit.
These are actually true lilies, rather than daylilies (which are hemerocalis rather than lilium).
Daylilies are exceedingly easy to grow. They have long narrow leaves that originate near ground level, and the flowers grow up on long stalks, several buds on each stalk, but no leaves.
True lilies have much shorter leaves that are on the same stalks that bear the flower buds.
I've never grown true lilies. There are a ton of kinds, and I believe some are easy to grow, while some are harder.
The other flowers, the purple ones, are larkspur. I also call them "bunny flowers". Someone one time showed me the little "bunny head" in the center of the flower, and I can't NOT see them now. In your photo, the flower on the left shows a profile of a bunny face, facing left. The big petals sort of form an oversized ruff collar around the head. Can you see it?
Larkspur are great. They self sow every year, if you let them go to seed. They are mostly purple, but white and pink happen, too.
Thanks, Leslie, for the eddification!
I do see the bunny. :-)
Self-sowing is good. I should get some seed and put some in my yard!
Thanks!
I'm SO glad you see the bunny. It's one of those "see it or not" things.
If you have one larkspur, you will have more next year. When the flower stalks stop making flowers, you are left with an upright pitcher shaped seed pod where each flower had been. Inside are a 'million' little black seeds. Let them fall off, or collect them. I just let mine fall. They put out a rosette, close to the ground fairly early in the spring. I grew them in Texas, and I think they do well everywhere.
One of my favorite "invasive flowers", if there is such a thing.
I can almost see its little purple nose wiggle.... :-)
I have lots of favorite "invasive flowers," including dandelions.....
That larkspur was blooming on the north side of someone's hedge. I have lots of shady areas..... I definitely need to get some larkspur seeds and scatter them around.....
Thanks for the tip! :-)
ps -- visited your site but didn't have the energy to sign up so I could comment -- love your drawings and love your description of your working process!
Thanks for visiting. Wordpress sign up is a little process-ey. I would love for you to join the comments. I am an avid plant person, though I don't do too many plant/flower posts. My dog, Deuce, blogs (ok, I blog for him) and I tend to put more plant stuff on his blog. http://www.lesliehawes.com/blackdog/
It's supposed to be my plant diary, but he took over...
Please kiss your pup for us. We are thinking about you.
I am enjoying Deuce's blog. :-) Great pics -- especially love the Tucson moonrise! Wow!
One of these days I'll have to register with wordpress.........
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