Got a fabulous(?) flower picture sent from a friend and then decided to use one of Mrs. Phactor's daylilies, and then it sort of dawned on me that both were in a sense lilies at least in the old taxonomic sense of the lily family. So first up is the genus Sansevieria, snake plant, or mother-in-laws tongue, or bow string hemp. Lots of people grow this plant because it is tough and easy to grow, and not many people use the leaf fibers for bow string anymore, but you could. Most people don't notice the little white flowers although the inflorescences can be fairly large. So our friend thought that it was sort of fabulous to have their semi-mistreated plant flower, and now here it is certified fabulous.
Daylilies (Hemerocallis) are one of the most widespread and colorful of summer perennials, and TPP has no idea what this particular yellow-orange variety is called. Our current yard had a lot of daylilies when we moved in but they were all the invasive (stoloniferous) orange ones (H. fulva), so-called "ditch weed" type. They have mostly been removed by Mrs. Phactor using sheer stubbornness to eliminate them. Her tip: never plant stoloniferous daylilies. This particular variety has really big flowers and makes for a large display. The lily family was a giant glump of lineages and TPP hasn't yet even figured out all the families the former lily family has been broken into. Snake plant is in the Asparagus family, and daylilies are now in the Asphodela family, the "true lilies" TPP thinks. So today, lilies, or two lilies today, or to day daylily.
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