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Gardening

Botany

(70,504 posts) Tue Jun 23, 2015, 10:47 AM Jun 2015

After 4 years I now have my first Michigan Lily blooming

(picture taken from the internet)

Great native wildflower!

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After 4 years I now have my first Michigan Lily blooming (Original Post) Botany Jun 2015 OP

That is gorgeous! femmocrat Jun 2015 #1

A native plant nursery in Wisconsin (prairie nursery) Botany Jun 2015 #2

Just beautiful Brainstormy Jun 2015 #3

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. That is gorgeous!

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 10:49 AM

Jun 2015

We used to call them "tiger lilies" but I haven't seen one in years. How did you acquire it?

Botany

(70,504 posts)

2. A native plant nursery in Wisconsin (prairie nursery)

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 11:11 AM

Jun 2015

I am friends w/the owner and we swap seeds sometimes
and sometimes they have Michigan Lilies for sale. I got some
bulbs (corms) a few years ago and I potted them up ..... this
is the first one to bloom.

Brainstormy

(2,380 posts)

3. Just beautiful

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:09 AM

Jun 2015

haven't seen one in a long time

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