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Thomas Jefferson's front yard mystery
I've been trying to figure out what plant this is.
http://houdini.till-morning.net/tjcoolplant.jpg It was a photo taken in Thomas Jefferson's front yard at Montecello. Can anybody help me identify it? |
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On 9/22/04 4:05 AM, in article
, "HoudiniMan" wrote: I've been trying to figure out what plant this is. http://houdini.till-morning.net/tjcoolplant.jpg It was a photo taken in Thomas Jefferson's front yard at Montecello. Can anybody help me identify it? A true lily (Lilium) - of some sort. The height makes me think of what I grew up calling a Tigerlily, but I don't know what the proper Latin is. (I've lost all mine to the dreaded red lily beetles, sigh) Cheryl |
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I'd like to know too, I have them in my yard.... not quite that tall yet but
they are here. |
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(HoudiniMan) wrote:
http://houdini.till-morning.net/tjcoolplant.jpg It looks like an orange tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium). Some do grow 5' tall. People claim to have seen some 9' tall. Paghat has a photo at: http://www.paghat.com/tigerlily.html -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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It is a Turk's cap lily--Lilium superbum.
Sue Western Maine "S. M. Henning" wrote in message news | (HoudiniMan) wrote: | | http://houdini.till-morning.net/tjcoolplant.jpg | | It looks like an orange tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium). Some do grow | 5' tall. People claim to have seen some 9' tall. | | Paghat has a photo at: http://www.paghat.com/tigerlily.html | | -- | Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to | Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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Henning" wrote: (HoudiniMan) wrote: http://houdini.till-morning.net/tjcoolplant.jpg It looks like an orange tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium). Some do grow 5' tall. People claim to have seen some 9' tall. Paghat has a photo at: http://www.paghat.com/tigerlily.html They look very similar but Asian varieties were not available in Jefferson's day so are not grown at Monticello. The American Turk's-cap is much taller than the tiger lily but otherwise so similar & so beautiful that one wonders how or why our wonderful native lily was displaced from American gardening when the tiger lily arrived. I don't have a webpage for the American turk's-cap yet because mine are too young to have bloomed yet, but someday when I have good photos of this lily in my own garden, I'll put up the article I've already researched for it. -paggers -- "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" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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(HoudiniMan) wrote: I've been trying to figure out what plant this is. http://houdini.till-morning.net/tjcoolplant.jpg It was a photo taken in Thomas Jefferson's front yard at Montecello. Can anybody help me identify it? Montecello gardens aren't supposed to have anything in them that Jefferson himself did not grow. That limits which lily this could be: American Turk's-cap (Lillium superba) native to eastern North America & primarily the Appalachians. Jefferson received his specimens of the American turk's-cap (Lilium superbum) in 1812 from Bernard McMahon, a Philadelphia nurseryman. Jefferson also grew the pink European Turk's Cap (Lilium martagon), yellow Canada Martagon (Lilium canadense), & the White Lily later known as the Madonna Lily (Lilium candidum). Here's the Center for Historic Plants website full of articles about Jefferson's gardens: http://www.twinleaf.org/ Twin Leaf Journal Online is maintained by The Center for Historic Plants which is also a nursery. It is supposed to sell heirloom & historic plants which Jefferson personally grew. But business being what it is, they presently sell an Asian lily which is in mass-production for any ol' nursery & which Jefferson never knew existed, while they do not offer the American turk's-cap. You will probably have to track it down from a native species specialist. I got my American turk's-caps as mere seedlings at a Rhododendron Species Foundation sale, but they weren't this year old enough to bloom. -paghat the ratgirl -- "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" Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com |
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