Late Bloomers...
I noticed along the side of the road one week in September, bright red lilies blooming, renewing the summer-weary landscape. I remembered my grandmother always having bright orange day lilies growing in her yard all summer. The September rains always triggered the dormant bulbs of the late bloomers, Oxblood lilies.
Some gardeners call these beautiful blooms, schoolhouse lilies because; they never fail to bloom about the time the children start to school. You may find these gorgeous blooms in neglected flower beds or at abandoned homesteads, because their deep roots enable the bulbs to withstand poor soil, severe temperatures, and humidity. Each year the brilliant oxblood lilies hold their heads high on the slender foot-tall green stalks to shout I'm alive! The indestmctible spider lily also plums, siren red, at the peak of the storm season, earning its name hurricane lily.
The extended season of the tough nectar-bearing blooms draws beautiful butterflies to your garden. Butterflies tend to favor gardens that produce late blooming lilies that provide nectar for adults and a place to lay eggs. We are thrilled when Monarch butterflies choose our garden for a home.
Planting the oxblood lily bulbs now for next fall along side the hurricane lily in your garden will give you hope, happiness, hefty dose of courage! Looking at the stunning beauty of the Oxblood Lilies, my thoughts raced to the late bloomers that are entering the autumn of life. Fabulous after 50 folks and Fall lilies are both independent types. I'm sure you have people in your circle of life who have taken the experiences of long life and bloomed into bright flowers.
Michelangelo was seventy-one when he painted the Sistine Chapel.
Albert Schweitzer was still performing operations in his African hospital at eighty-nine.
John D. Rockefeller was making $1 million a week when he died at ninety-three.
Golda Meir was seventy-one when she became prime minister of Israel.
Let your roots grow deep into the soil of God's love to produce a late bloomer in your ageless life.
Some gardeners call these beautiful blooms, schoolhouse lilies because; they never fail to bloom about the time the children start to school. You may find these gorgeous blooms in neglected flower beds or at abandoned homesteads, because their deep roots enable the bulbs to withstand poor soil, severe temperatures, and humidity. Each year the brilliant oxblood lilies hold their heads high on the slender foot-tall green stalks to shout I'm alive! The indestmctible spider lily also plums, siren red, at the peak of the storm season, earning its name hurricane lily.
The extended season of the tough nectar-bearing blooms draws beautiful butterflies to your garden. Butterflies tend to favor gardens that produce late blooming lilies that provide nectar for adults and a place to lay eggs. We are thrilled when Monarch butterflies choose our garden for a home.
Planting the oxblood lily bulbs now for next fall along side the hurricane lily in your garden will give you hope, happiness, hefty dose of courage! Looking at the stunning beauty of the Oxblood Lilies, my thoughts raced to the late bloomers that are entering the autumn of life. Fabulous after 50 folks and Fall lilies are both independent types. I'm sure you have people in your circle of life who have taken the experiences of long life and bloomed into bright flowers.
Michelangelo was seventy-one when he painted the Sistine Chapel.
Albert Schweitzer was still performing operations in his African hospital at eighty-nine.
John D. Rockefeller was making $1 million a week when he died at ninety-three.
Golda Meir was seventy-one when she became prime minister of Israel.
Let your roots grow deep into the soil of God's love to produce a late bloomer in your ageless life.
posted by Shirley W. Mitchell @ 10:09 PM
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