"Sometimes an unseasonable season - one that is exceedingly wet or dry, a summer of record heat, or a winter milder than usual - brings about the flowering of a plant that has been existing in the garden for quite a while without finding the right conditions for blooming."
Elizabeth Lawrence, The Little Bulbs
And so it is in Elizabeth Lawrence's garden even today. It has been a little over two and a half years since I started tending this awesome plot, and I am still amazed and delightfully surprised—on a nearly daily basis—by "new" blooming plants. The plants are in no way new to the garden, they just have not found, as Elizabeth says, "the right conditions for blooming". Some of them have been so well hidden, had I not seen them blooming, they may well have gone undetected for another two and a half years! Some of the loveliest flowers in the garden today are crinums. And Elizabeth Lawrence so loved her crinums. As far as my research shows, all of the crinums in the garden are original to Elizabeth planting them during the 35 years she lived and gardened here. Talk about a tried and true plant!
Elizabeth Lawrence loved her crinums. This is a delicately scented one that has no name… yet.
Today's blooming "surprises" include a very delicately scented one I have not yet correctly identified. If anyone has any ideas, let me know, so I can cross-reference them with her massive database of handwritten index cards.
Come by and be surprised by the continuing parade of blooms in Elizabeth Lawrence's garden! Until then, I remain...
Yours in Dirt,
Andrea