tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post1903954709162113786..comments2024-03-24T09:10:04.676-04:00Comments on TARA DILLARD: Naked Ladies: Harbinger of AutumnTara Dillardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16233493520013405385noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-62965548969183616902017-06-08T12:48:50.656-04:002017-06-08T12:48:50.656-04:00Tiffany! I think it is August when they bloom! T...Tiffany! I think it is August when they bloom! This year we had so much rain I am hopeful!!!<br />Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-40709346861816913942017-06-08T02:48:19.820-04:002017-06-08T02:48:19.820-04:00Not yet, you sweetheart! I hope they will!! I ha...Not yet, you sweetheart! I hope they will!! I have to watch the places where they show up every year here.....and then I will search! I sure hope so! As you know, I adore them!!!Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-35659948122227489362017-06-04T01:42:31.699-04:002017-06-04T01:42:31.699-04:00Penelope, did your surprise lilies come up this ye...Penelope, did your surprise lilies come up this year???? I hope so! :)<br /><br />Cheers,<br />Tiffany<br />Tiffanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00530593193492419831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-65464148251294970162016-09-03T02:17:39.845-04:002016-09-03T02:17:39.845-04:00Dear Vera! I love "passalong plants" to...Dear Vera! I love "passalong plants" too! Thank you for the wonderful expression!Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-15775291591584041102016-09-03T02:13:40.849-04:002016-09-03T02:13:40.849-04:00Tiffany!
I cried when I read your letter! Of cou...Tiffany!<br /><br />I cried when I read your letter! Of course she did! And I love what she called those funny pink flowers that pop out of nowhere!<br /> "Surprise lilies"!!<br /><br />They are such a surprise! No leaves.....just pop! beautiful pink lilies out of the ground on their long stems!<br /><br />I hope mine come back some day!!!Penelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-19882310322280815742016-08-31T01:51:35.897-04:002016-08-31T01:51:35.897-04:00Yikes! so funny.......(no, it is another coincide...Yikes! so funny.......(no, it is another coincidence......I am used to them with you!)<br /><br />'Naked Ladies" I have always loved....they just spring up all over the place around here....by the side of the road.....random places in gardens....<br /><br />About 8 years ago (or something....I have no sense of time; it is scary most creative people are like this)<br /><br />Anyway...my friend had a great property near mine in Montecito ....and he said......"I think you told me you liked "Naked Ladies" (he knew I knew what he meant)! His gardener dug up around a hundred of them....delivered them...and we planted. Every year they have bloomed. This year.....(I will look again tomorrow) not one.<br />SOB! It rained a little bit....but they are way back......in the non-irrigated.......I hope they are not dead.<br />I am so sad! I find them very "estatey"!! They are in so many of the lovely old estates here in Montecito!<br />Fingers crossed for next year!<br />The great <br />Eric Nagelmann is the landscape archtect who is a big hero around here! Google him! When you come; you two will meet!<br /><br />PenelopePenelope Bianchihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07863486521957665886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-2438470501186732852016-08-30T21:42:49.184-04:002016-08-30T21:42:49.184-04:00When you are planting bulbs, 500 feels like too ma...When you are planting bulbs, 500 feels like too many before you're done.<br /><br />When they bloom, you wish you'd put in 5,000.<br /><br />Jean Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09000315400392984647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-9049911609187035652016-08-30T20:04:36.035-04:002016-08-30T20:04:36.035-04:00Oh - I would love to have some of the pink ones! ...Oh - I would love to have some of the pink ones! <br /><br />I have the others. Youngest son did yard work for our local entomologist and brought home several bulbs. I just love passalong plants and I think of both my son and Dr. Osborn every time they bloom - - - all these many years later!<br /><br />I love keeping up with your farmhouse transformation!Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12027231380756742964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-82221740625517811552016-08-30T19:51:57.487-04:002016-08-30T19:51:57.487-04:00My Nana was an avid gardener. Mimosa and a particu...My Nana was an avid gardener. Mimosa and a particular kind of rose scent inevitably remind me of her yard, as well as hollyhocks, Chinese Lanterns, and jackmanii clematis. One of my very favorite pictures of me and my sister as children is of us standing next to her surprise lilies. And I grow many today myself :)<br /><br />I had the opportunity to travel to where she grew up early this summer, and visited her parents' and grandparents' little cemetery, which thankfully has been preserved from the urban encroachment all around. When I got there, though it was quite overgrown, by each side of the gravestones, I could see those big strappy surprise lily leaves. I know she planted them there.<br /><br />I could barely drive away, my eyes were so full of tears. Tiffanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00530593193492419831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935757824325245429.post-67369783238293799832016-08-30T13:08:16.665-04:002016-08-30T13:08:16.665-04:00Beautiful.Beautiful.Lori Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00233955188892423314noreply@blogger.com