According to the garden centre pot tags, I was buying three matching tiger lilies, and they certainly looked it at the time. The middle one took an a worrying appearance once the buds appeared - as though some pesky bug had encased it in fuzz, but inexplicably decided to skip the adjacent plants. Then it bloomed, and the penny dropped.
It's extraordinarily lovely:
But nevertheless looks a little anemic and incongruous flanked by these:
I think it will have to move to the other side of the path for next season - the pale pink rose would be a far more congenial companion.
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In other news, summer continues at a pace somewhere between heat-induced torpor and visitor-induced pandemonium. All very very good (except for the three weeks of sequential family flu that left me sleep deprived but otherwise astonishingly unscathed), but I've been a little absent online as a result. Nevertheless, there will be new yarn this week. Tomorrow or Friday - it depends when Rob finishes the skeining.
That is a gorgeous lily. I bought some mismarked tomatoes, and now have no cherry tomatoes in my garden.
Posted by: marylou | 29/07/2010 at 12:46 PM
It is lovely, but just slightly different from the others.
Posted by: Cookie | 29/07/2010 at 01:46 PM