Lily Daze

June/July 2001
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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The day lily (so named because its buds bloom for one day only) that punctuates flowerbeds from Virginia to New Brunswick is not a true lily. You can tell it from the other orange lilies because its blossoms are unspotted and point up, like cups, rather than down, like bells. Unlike true lilies, the day lily has a leafless stem, with its long leaves shooting up from the base of the plant. It is sometimes mistaken for the tiger lily, another Asiatic import, but with spotted, downward-hanging blossoms.

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-Fred Schaaf

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