Third annual Conca d'Or lily post

I was explaining to Matt this afternoon about my Conca d'Or lily anxiety. It goes like this: Conca d'Or blooms, all of a sudden, earlier than I was expecting. And immediately, while I am rapt with her beauty, I can't bear the thought that the bottom flowers are going to turn brown. Nooooooooo! But it's inevitable, folks. Also, there are only so many hours in the day, and I feel that to maximize the good things in life, I should spend them all with Conca d'Or.

Some facts: Did your lily salesman claim that Conca d'Or is so fragrant that just one bulb's worth of blooms will attract fairies? It's totally true, and completely unfabricated! And one bulb will multiply quickly. That's all I started with, as you can see in this post: A Rosie and a lily, which I think was year two for my bulbs. Now I have, like, so many. And the tallest ones are taller than Matt, who is six feet tall. He's my measuring stick. For last year's post, see here: Conca d'Or and friends.

Conca d'Or and friends

I love my Conca d'Or lilies so much that when they're blooming, I wonder how life will ever be as good when they're gone. Also, my Conca d'Or lilies have brought me fame (or what passes for fame around here): they are the search term that brings the most visitors to my blog. Actually, it's not just them. It's that when you search google images for "Conca d'Or lily", you see lots of pictures of huge lemon yellow lilies, but only one picture of huge lemon yellow lilies with a hot babe in a frilly purple off-the-shoulder blouse, and of course you click on that one, and then here you are at my blog. So, for my second annual post on this topic, Matt and I posed with our lilies, which are now taller than Matt, and from my perspective, that's pretty tall. For the babe, see A Rosie and a Lily!

A Rosie and a lily

This is my friend Rosie, with my Lilium 'Conca D'or.' I think they are both lovely. For the record, I do not make a habit of planting Giant Yellow Things in my garden. In fact, as a rule, I despise them. But life is complicated, and thus... there is room in my heart for Conca D'or.

And also, we have a new pearled earth header, which I hope you like. I enjoy drawing pictures, and I plan to share some of them here going forward.

My July

Bronze fennel tentacles

Lilium 'Conca d'Or'

Crimson gala apple

Hemerocallis 'Hot Toddy'

Dianthus 'Chianti'