Saturday, June 25, 2005
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I've read that all of those orange day lillies that are common in roadside ditches across the country are clones and that this plant cannot reproduce sexually.
When i am hiking the woods and I happen upon a patch of day lillies are start to look around for signs of a former cabin. Since they travel well and replant so readily, I understand that settlers put them in their dooryard gardens -- among the first things they planted.
When i am hiking the woods and I happen upon a patch of day lillies are start to look around for signs of a former cabin. Since they travel well and replant so readily, I understand that settlers put them in their dooryard gardens -- among the first things they planted.
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: June 26, 2005
: June 26, 2005
Pablo,
That's interesting; here in our neck of the woods they are called tiger lilies (which they also call the spotted orange true lilies, which makes for some confusion) but I think most parts of the country call them ditch lilies. They are certainly ubiquitous here in farm country, and typically there is a big clump in the ditch in front of old farmsteads. They are hell to get rid of; I accidentally brought some in mixed in with hybrid daylilies from a previous garden, and I don't think I'll ever be free of them.
Don
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That's interesting; here in our neck of the woods they are called tiger lilies (which they also call the spotted orange true lilies, which makes for some confusion) but I think most parts of the country call them ditch lilies. They are certainly ubiquitous here in farm country, and typically there is a big clump in the ditch in front of old farmsteads. They are hell to get rid of; I accidentally brought some in mixed in with hybrid daylilies from a previous garden, and I don't think I'll ever be free of them.
Don
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