05-03-2004, 07:42 PM
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Dogtooth Lilies
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The dogtooth lily leaves are up & more beautiful than hostas. The
hardiest of all dogtooth lilies, the yellow hybrid called "Pagoda," has
always done spectacularly well, but a little pink one, E. dens-canis, did
not do much last year. Right now though I see it not only is leafing up
beautifull, it is actually leafing up in a foot-wide area with lots & lots
& lots of leaves, though I'm pretty sure only one had been planted from a
pot into that location. I now wonder if the pink failed to bloom in 2003
because it was being exclusively energetic about reproducing itself
underground. Some of the yellow "Pagoda" have been in their spots for four
years & never spread like that, though they certainly do get bigger &
better every year.
Spit :~}. A friend of mine has yards of the pink dens canis one
naturalised like a rampant weed in her shady lawn under a yew tree.
She's given me lots but in my last garden they just sulked along for
years, not multiplying and not doing well in the flower department
either, though I did enjoy those blotchy leaves. I didn't do any better
with Pagoda, shop bought.
Janet
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