Earlier in the spring, on the first 90+ day of the year, we went to the house of a woman in Homewood who had posted on Craigslist that she had plants to give away, on a "you dig" basis. These tiger lilies were among them. We transplanted seven; one died right away, one died after a couple of months, Peter lovingly pulled the tiny buds off another, but the remaining ones have been looking promising for a while. And today the first one bloomed! I'm so happy that they like the sunny bit of garden I picked out for them, which got much sunnier after Mike and his dad took a chainsaw to a dying maple tree soon after we moved in. The chainsaw stopped working when the tree had been reduced to a five-foot stump, which they took out - with the additional help of our brother-in-law Scott - over Thanksgiving two years ago. (We women and children for the most part remained sensibly in the house, because it was cold, and children don't mix well with Chainsaw Fun.) Sadly, we have no photos of Chainsaw Fun, so you'll just have to imagine it.
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Hello, those are some beautiful tiger lily's!!! Congrats on transplanting them. I do the same for most of my backyard....trasplant from elsewhere for free.
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