No worries! Like I said, I always have to check, between those 2. Looks like you’ll have a ton coming in over the next weeks - of both!

So I guess I have a ton of the Asiatic lilies, a lot of the OT hybrid (also sometimes called Orienpet, but that sorta sounds silly to me), a few trumpets, and a couple oriental.
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Also, that many of the flowers that were sold as star gazer bulbs were definitely not.

If they don’t smell and tend to stay a lot shorter, they’re more likely to be the asiatics. If they grow a lot taller and have a smell (that I personally love), they’re probably the oriental type.

Trumpet and daylilies (along with lily of the valley, calla lily, toad lily, easter lily, turk’s cap, and several others, are a lot easier to tell apart based on looks, but the Asiatic and Oriental types always confuse me until I smell them!

Some references (which, I have to use something as reference every year):

• https://bygl.osu.edu/node/1096
• https://worldoffloweringplants.com/difference-asiatic-oriental-lilies/
• https://www.thespruce.com/asiatic-lily-care-guide-7510540 (which is where I get reminded “Unlike Oriental lilies, which bloom in late summer and are known for their aroma, Asiatic lilies bloom in late spring or early summer and have little to no scent.”)

These are gorgeous! Beautiful colors, and it looks like a lot more to come! ❤️

Ooh, that’s exciting! They’ll be beautiful!

Thanks!

I’m going to have to move my star gazers after the growing season is done. They only bloom one flower each year, and have never sprouted new stems from the bulbs/scales!

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Your flowers are gorgeous! That’s all in one pot?? Beautiful ❤️ I bet they smell great that close to the house 😍

They’re one of my faves, too! I have 2 (that I don’t water as regularly, so they’re still small) that I think I’ll move closer this fall/winter. You’ve done an amazing job with them, and inspired me!

I don’t know if or when it came back (there seems to be a 30 year cycle for fashion where everything old is new again) or if you are just your own individual who doesn’t care if it’s in, just doing it because you like it.

Or maybe you’re rockabilly. Or too punk to care.

Or maybe I stopped noticing it and it never actually went out of fashion - it was me who went out of fashion!
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Tight-rolled jeans with rolled-down socks.
Also, aforementioned backwards clothes - even trained my Grandma to reply “jump, jump?” 😁

That’s awesome! Good idea keeping mosquitoes away - I’m a friggen mosquito-magnet and get a new bite almost every time I go outside (and most of the lawn is kept tidy, but we don’t clean up all the long grass in the “lily garden” - yet)

Very nice! They bounced back well! What else is in there with them? The bigger bushy leaves look kinda like geranium to me, but it’s just a guess
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It’s great that you got to keep the original plan, once the trees got a little bigger!

But it’s really quite amazing how well hostas do, when given shade. We have so many (in the back) that aren’t even the same as any of the other hostas in our back yard!

We had a similar (but reversed) situation - had a giant oak in the front yard when we bought the house. We put hostas in the shade - our front yard was full shade, so they did really well.

A couple of years later, our oak got sick and full shade turned into part shade. Then we had to take it down, so the already stressed and crispy hostas - which had already stopped doing well - seem to be barely present in the front.

We don’t have as many hostas in the front anymore.

😅

Ya know, I think those are actually all volunteers - I think we also had only seen variegated, except for this one kind that are giant and blue.
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Thank you, though! We also are loving how little grass can grow between/beneath them!

Thank you!
My spouse floated an idea that would double the size of this flower bed.
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I’m all about that! I wanna split and scramble some of the colors around, now that I know what it all looks like!🤞

I’m sure they would have been great ~

Sorry to hear that your deer are jerks (and those beetles! Man - those guys suck!)

Like the Santa maggot guy

I kinda like the idea of it being Santa instead of Satan 😁

Oh that’s even cooler than decorative grass! The whole bed looks great, man. The scatter planting will be fun, too! Now I know that I like lupins 😁 thanks!

I’m gonna have to do some splitting and replanting this fall, too. The flowers did much better than expected after just one year - lol