TIGER LILIES IN THE SUN

My Mother had several tiger lilies next to her deck that provided a colorful accent in her flower bed. She gave me some seed from them a dozen years or more ago. I dropped them in a flower pot along with some lavender plants my son had from school. Every year the lavender and the lilies would spring up and give some some nice colors. They were in an out of the way part of the yard that we didn't see very often and we rarely watered them or took care of them. They were ignored. After a strong storm this summer, I noticed that the pot had blown over and the lilies, now about six feet high, were on their side. The pot was disintegrating and ready to be thrown out. Rather than throw it out, I decided to replant them (not something I do regularly since I'm not much of a gardener). How the lilies had survived amazes me. After re-potting them, the lilies found a new home on our deck where the bright sun lights them up every morning. The shadows our the nearby trees provides a nice backdrop to highlight their beauty.