I have had the lily 'Eyeliner' in the ground a couple of years now. It put on an amazing show this year. Today I was looking at them and noticed two have stem roots below the blooms. I immediately cut them off and potted them up. Very happy!
I did a search in this forum for this topic, but didn't find anything that dealt with it specifically.
Here's a pic of the bloom, then pics of the roots.
Barb
Here's a pic of the roots.
Too cool for school!
Barb
And another with the leaves removed.
I've never seen anything like it ~ how far up the stem were the roots? Can you re-post the 3rd pic?
Will do, don't know why it didn't attach. i'll try again in the next message.
Here's a pic of another, still in the ground. I put an orange arrow pointing at the roots. As you can see, they're forming right below the blooms. The two other smaller ones don't have the roots.
Barb
here's with the leaves removed.
That is just weird! Hope you have luck rooting it ~ do keep us posted on your progress. Thanks for all the pics. :)
Very interesting. Can you think of anything that may have come in contact with that area (only) that may have triggered such a proliferation? --- nick or scrape, touch of Round Up or some other chemical, insect repellent, mud, ketchup* (I'm not kidding! You just never know...)
*Ketchup has special qualities, according to the Prairie Home Companion Show. LOL
As does Windex! ;)
Any possibility it could be water related? Have you had tons of rain?
That is definitely interesting.
Nothing that I can think of. I suppose something could have happened when that point of the stem was at ground level earlier this spring.
Hhmmm...
Barb
Polly,
That's about the only thing I can think of - we did ahve several big storms a few months ago. maybe that's it.
