Friday, September 16, 2022

Aug 1 My Carolina Lily Update

 


Back in April I began seeing the early plant structures for Lilium michauxii appearing. They are rather uniquely shaped and easy to spot once you know what you are looking for. Once I spotted a few, I pin flagged them so I could monitor them. Overall I located 5 areas which indicates to me that they propagate fairly easily via seeds. Deer love them so they often disappear before they bloom and as they bloom and after they bloom. Hence the need for the pin flags. My Spring tally was 49. There was one area of closely clumped plants which I enclosed with wire fencing. Others I tried to protect with small wire exclosures but found them difficult to secure in the ground. A few I dug up and transplanted to better protected areas. 

Then came bloom time in late July. Five in my large exclosure bloomed for about 3 days. One of last year's transplants bloomed for about a week. It is pictured above. Plans for next bloom season are evolving. Hopefully, I'll have a nice report next year.

oops, a bit early for these seeds





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