Actually it's Iphion uniflorum, aka Spring Starflower.

I have masses of them in my own garden.

Dave

"paghat" wrote in message
news
In article , "Ben Tuinman"
wrote:

We have a plant in our garden, a perennial, which we don't know. We
would
like someone to identify it for us. Its petals are tiny white, and they
close at the end of the day...... Thank you !

http://www3.sympatico.ca/btuinman/Plants.htm

Rainlily aka Zephyr Lily or Fairy Lily. See:
http://www.paghat.com/rainlily.html

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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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