Still trying to live.....
By Nadinest1
@Nadinest1 (2016)
Canada
August 21, 2011 8:30am CST
When we moved into our house 15 years ago, the front of it was over-grown with pin k peonies and tiger lillies....along with 2 cedar trees on each side of the front door.
It didn't take me long to realize that ALL of those flower are going to be dug up and taken to the woods to die(we live in the country).
Every summer I glance in the woods and there are always a few tiger lillies still popping up....after 15 years. They are trying hard to stay alive!!!
My mother and sisters thought it was terrible to throw those beautiful flowers away....but as you guessed, I am NOT a flower person.
Here is a picture of the die-hard(literally) tiger lily found in the woods.
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6 responses
@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
21 Aug 11
I probably would've left them, just because they would be too much work to get rid of them... outside doesn't work for me.
Tho, a few times, I've got out - in the spring - and pulled up some weeds, like dandylions and sticker clover and wild carrots (all either or or produce stickers)
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@danishcanadian (28953)
• Canada
21 Aug 11
I find it interesting that you claim not to be a flower person, yet you feel bad for the plight of the flowers you re-located. I wish I lived there. I'd love to have all those flowers around.
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@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
21 Aug 11
Not everyone is a flower person. If your mother and sister don't know this by now, then you need to enlighten them.
My family often times doesn't know what I want and they don't know my interest. They think they know me, but often times they really don't.
If you have tiger lilies I would not throw those away, or get rid of them. Let nature take care of them. They are rare where I come from, and people usually have to go out and buy them because they don't naturally grow here. You could always sell the ones that you grow.
@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
21 Aug 11
You had my hopes up of seeing a tiger lily again. But that's not a tiger lily. That's a daylily. Tiger lilies seem to have gone the way of the dodo.
@Nadinest1 (2016)
• Canada
21 Aug 11
Oh....here they are just known as a tiger lily. I stand corrected. I will let my sisters and mother know the difference.
Thanks.
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
21 Aug 11
A great many plants are very harty, especially weeds, no matter what you do to them some will survive. I have found flowers that were planted years ago and given no care, blooming in spots they never grew in before. I know that birds spread their seeds and often they wait for a wet Spring to grow. Well we have had a very wet Spring.
