Carolina Gardening: Blooming and Growing In July, 0 by TomH3787

TomH3787 wrote:
Deb - That's a really pretty candy lily. I used to have ones with different colors as well but over the years they reverted to the common orange w/red speckles variety that looks mostly like a large blackberrry lily (Belamcanda). At least for me, they seem to be rather short-lived perennials and you'd need to collect seeds from the most colorful ones and cull out the plain ones to maintain variety. But, as I recall, the ones with more vividly-colored flowers tended to be less vigorous and produce fewer seeds than the plain ones. Good luck with yours! You may want to manually pollinate it (or cross-pollinate it with others with desirable colors) to ensure a good supply of seeds.

Not much new is blooming yet... we did finally get some rain on Friday but it's still too dry.

Here's Aloe cooperi ...