Also in white, orange, and any flower color except blue.
When I found this bed of lilies one June at the Missouri Botanical Garden, I couldn’t resist. I wonder how many other visitors snapped their photo that day. Or in the years since?
When I was a child, we called the orange ones “tiger lily”. It was pretty much the only color we saw. According to my recent search, they are Asiatic lilies. Of course, that’s rather misleading. Since the plant is native to North America and Europe as well as large portions of Asia.
Regardless of name and place of origin — they are a credit to any garden.
In the mid-19th century, many American gardens included a few flowers among the vegetables. They added a splash of color. Sometimes they also furnished medicine or a little pest control. In the sweet historical romance, New Dreams, one of Louisa’s first tasks at the bakery was to tend the garden. Fenced to keep out the animals which tended to wander, the garden contained raised beds of vegetables, herbs, and (I like to think) a few flowers. Check out this summer read at the link: https://amzn.to/3vWydWE
