Mid-June to early July is Lily Time in New Jersey. Not only do I have a proliferation of these beautiful flowers in my own yard, but they line the roadsides everywhere you go. You can’t drive down a road without seeing their orangey splashes of color. I call them daylilies, but people around here call them tiger lilies (not to be confused with the oriental variety of tiger lily).
I just love how they seem to throw themselves open with wild abandon, seemingly taking in everything they can get from the world around them.
They seem to love the somewhat rocky, sunny flower bed next to the pool. They share the space with lush ferns.
Along our driveway at the edge of a patch of woods this lily grows. It never opens further than this and has different leaves than the other lilies. I don’t know if it’s a hybrid, a mistake, or just its own kind.
Soon their flowering season will be over. I’ll miss them but know that they will return again next year to brighten up my yard and the highways and byways of New Jersey.
Posted by Lynne on 07/08/2008 at 07:06 AM
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