Lilies everywhere, you've got to love them!

Lilies are my favorite flowers. They are simple, undemanding, spectacular en mass and elegant alone. Simply elegant....you have got to love 'em! My garden, as young as it is, is showing its lilies this week and it is spectacular. Most of these lilies have a beautiful scent. Yes, unlike many other folks, I love a flower with a scent. Scented posies are addictive. I can't eat just one chocolate, and I don't want to sniff just one scented flower.  

When I moved from my "lifetime home", the house we were never going to part with but were forced out of by NY taxes...we dug up many of our daylilies that had been growing there for thirty-five years. We transplanted the lilies into a collection of five gallon buckets we had saved for this project.  The five gallon buckets had contained substances such as laundry detergent, joint compound and kitty litter.  We used them as flower pots; giant flower pots, and substantial growing environments for the perennials. The five gallon containers were easy to tranport and held a substantial amount of loam.  The plants were able to live in them for years, as long as they had the proper conditions of enough light and water. Last summer we planted some of the lilies in our new home's garden after over a year in the five gallon pots.  This year we replanted many more plants that had spent over two years in the pots. It was all worth it. We have a garden rich in color and texture, and we will soon have a garden rich in masses of color. It saved us thousands in landscaping costs, that is for sure. It also gave us the opportunity to bring plants to our new home, that had a special sentimentality for us. I brought my mother's double orange daylily, grandma's tiger lilies and lemon lilies with an enticing lily scent, and my beloved red velvet daylily with a magnificent scent. Those are only a few of our precious garden transplants that moved with us. I am so grateful for their company.

My favorite red velvet daylily

Gigi's Lemon lilies, Mom's double orange daylily, and some Campanulas bought at a Master Gardener plant sale. All the citizens of my traveling garden.

More on my beloved lilies next time!