Lilies: Lilly beetle killer?, 0 by yehudith

yehudith wrote:
No, she's my family and she's 86 and widowed. I'm a geriactrics nurse, no longer work clinically, I'm now a part-time instructor at the local community college. How can I not have her come to us, besides we all love her and my daughter will have the benefit of having her here when she comes home from school before I get home. We plan on putting in an elevator chair to avoid the stair issue. We put in a small kitchenette, so she has some independence, but she'll be taking most of her meals with us. She's an ex-beauty queen who loves a garden, that's why we planned the retaining walls the way we did. Her brother was an orchid hybridizer, retired from IBM at 30 and spent the rest of his life growing orchids. When ever I have an orchid I can't get to do right I send it to her and when we go visit it is usually smothered with flowers.

Now I'm going to be good and go back to researching victorian lilies. I want my cottage garden to have real heirloom plants, I doing everything I can to avoid modern plants. I'm also trying to stick with blues, yellows, lilacs, greys etc. My house is grey and white so I think that would work nicely. Also, eggplants and squash, and peas etc. all have the same colour flowers. Method in my madness

I included the view from her livingroom. Can't you just see the roses and lilies all underplanted with cascading vines and maybe a couple hostas or an hydrangea? The beds are 4 feet front to back so there's lots of room.