Lilies: Blown out Trumpet?, 1 by llilyfan

llilyfan wrote:
So....I grabbed that pot and gave a good pull as I stood up and this long willowy (is that a word?) pliable (thank the Lord) stem came along with that barren pot.

As I took a closer look it was obvious that it was a lily stem and that it had grown up between the 2 pots. Now, I had heard that those nepalense could wander; so, that was why I had planted it on 4 inches of tamped soil in that pot. I guess that when it put out its wandering stem, it hit the side of the pot and got disoriented and went down rather than up, finally found the drainage hole, got its bearings, and started looking for the sun.

I now very carefully continued to remove it from its place among the asiatics and not only was there a stem of 18 inches, there was a very nice bud on the end of that same stem!

Part 3 coming in a minute!