Asiatic Lily
By webeishere
@webeishere (36313)
United States
May 27, 2010 9:33am CST
Well due to a very hot March here in Minnesota my plants flowers and trees sprung up earlier than normal. This is the first of my maroon/white Asiatic Lilies to bloom. They usually don't open until mid-June. They are a hardy blub flower that withstands the frost we get here in May. Mid-May we got a killing frost 2 days in a row and the lilies survived even though they were out of the ground already. Whew! So did your area get a mid-May killing frost? Are your flowers bloomed yet?
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
27 May 10
Not my lilies..:( How come yours bloomed before mine? I thought you lived in an area that has a colder climate? Though we did have close to freezing weather a couple weeks ago, I did see my lily, but it hasn't bloomed yet..:(
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
27 May 10
We had temps in the 80's for nearly a week in March is why my bloomed early I guess. It can get to minus 25 here in the winter, so I'd say it's a "colder" climate. HAHAHA!
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
27 May 10
And yet your flowers are blooming and you have berries..
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 May 10
Yeah, it got a little chilly here, too, mid-May. Not nice, to say the least, but I don't think anything got killed off in my garden (other than what the roofers trampled).
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
27 May 10
We have also had a few days of 90 and near 90 temps this month a lot as well.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 May 10
28°C past few days... about the same, I guess.
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@lilybug (21107)
• United States
27 May 10
We had 5 or 6 lilies open up this morning actually. I don't know what kind you would call them. They are orangish red in color and they are on stems that are about 4 feet tall. There are about 15 buds on each of the maybe 10 or so that are growing.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
27 May 10
I had 3 when I looked this morning.
More should open soon too as they all have buds ready to burst.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
27 May 10
That is gorgeous. Most of my Iris is done, except the Louisiana iris, which is blooming now. The roses are going crazy, mom's amaryllis is going crazy, the buddleia is just starting to bloom, the day lilies haven't started yet. No May frost here, but up in Grass Valley there was some...
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
27 May 10
No, we have not had a bad frost here in may. That would be very unusual for us to. Feb. was such a bad month for us we needed a break. Hope your weather will stay good now.
@margerydaw14 (735)
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1 Jun 10
i have been away on holiday, so just missed my aquiliega plants in flower, they are just past their best. But they do sometimes flowere later in the season. My scented geraniums are flowering in lovely shades of blue and pink. But lots of my plants start to flower mid summer- fuchsias, roses and all the myriad pots and containers and the flower beds.
we do have reasonably mild weather. I have never lost any plants to frost this time of the year.....yet. shouldnt speak too soon should I 
Glad to see your posts, Grandpa Bob, best wishes to you and your family.
Glad to see your posts, Grandpa Bob, best wishes to you and your family.@margerydaw14 (735)
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16 Jun 10
thank you very much for best response grandpa bob. I mentioned my aquiliega plants, and they are now flowering again. probably the rest of the plants in the same plant are now coming into flower. they do look lovely, i like their unusual shape. I bought some new , supposedly lilac , roses, the buds look suspiciously pinky/red !!
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
28 May 10
hi grandpa bob oh my nope no killing frosts here, got down to 40 once but that was all. been pretty nice here lately but we have the hot weather season ahead of us.right now its just right, light sweater weather but dread the hot days of July and august on sometimes through
nov.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
28 May 10
40?
HAH!
We had snow mid-May too.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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29 May 10
Hi GRANDPA BOB,
We did have much good weather and now flowers are budding in my garden and its all looking so nice, this British climate can't make up its mind.
Tamara
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
27 May 10
This all sounds so beautiful! I bet they smell good, too! I don't have very many flowers around my place any more. I just have a lot of honeysuckles that bloom wild every year. I also have some hyacinths that bloom every year in March on my patio.
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