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Close up of my rain lilies- another benefit of rain! Tons yet to open from last weeks rain.

Very beautiful.

Beautiful April ! Thanks for sharing :))+-

What a cute little flower!!! Is it an easy to find plant?

Beautiful!

Very pretty!

Really pretty! What is a rain lily, anyway? Kinda like a daylily maybe???

Oh that is a beauty!! Yes what is a rain lily???Lauri

Until several years ago I had no idea what a rainlily was either- I thought it was just me, but clearly it's not. Ok a rain lily is a bulb, it multiplies quickly as a bulb but also puts out seed and the seed produces the plants quickly but I understand it takes a long time from seed to bloom. The plant, above ground, w/o flower looks like monkey grass, liriope- that sort of thing. Some varieties have thin leaves, other a bit thicker and one variety gets pretty large- the leaves aren't as tight or uniform as liriope, it's a bit less formal. Anyway after it rains (hence the name) the plant sends up flowers, many, many- some folks plant a few among their liriope borders- I have one that has huge flowers but it doesn't flower as often. I have them in pale pink, white, bright pink, yellow, orange, cream and apricot. Will see what's bloomed this morning and post. Oh yeah, they do not bloom w/o a trigger- rain or being tricked into thinking it's rained- a good rain, like we had last week, always produces the most flowers- I guess you can't improve on mother nature.

When I put Rain Lilies in plant search in Plant files it came up with Trailing Oxilias ) SP_ which I would not mind having I have the non-trailing Purple leaf one growing in our gardens they have little blubls too.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/64892/index.html

I could not find the pretty rain lilies

http://davesgarden.com/pf/adv_search.php?searcher%5Bcommon%5D=rain+lily&searcher%5Bfamily%5D=&searcher%5Bgenus%5D=&searcher%5Bspecies%5D=&searcher%5Bcultivar%5D=&searcher%5Bhybridizer%5D=&search_prefs%5Bsort_by%5D=rating&images_prefs=both&Search=Search


I have this one, it's very pretty http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55295/index.html

and also this one http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/49036/index.html


plus several others.

Wow April Thanks ! Now why my search I could not find. I've always called these Purple Leaf Shamrocks . They are so pretty. Our's are some what like these deep purple pink flowers
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/1241/index.html
There are so many mzing plants !

Allison I still think it's a different plant
These are in the amaryllis family, Zephyranthes & Habranthus- and what you are refering to is in the Oxalidaceae family, Oxallis.

I have also seen these referred to as fairly lilies.

This is a photo of my yellow- many more unopened blosoms.

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In this photo you can see there are 2 different cultivars and one is much bigger, paler than the others.

You can't see it well because it isn't opened completely, but this is an apricot color- I have 2 simillar color, different names but right now only the one is open.

This shot isn't the best but trying to show the bed on the right side of my house, it has more rain lilies than the other side and many are open today, still w/ more to come.

Oh I know they are different just wanted to show you mine :))

I didn't know,they came in so many colors.
April,I love the pink colored one in your first picture.
Allison,your purple leave plants are very pretty,too.

Here is nice photo of the apricot ones, more opened this morning.

Allison I have seen some really lovely Oxallis but just can't bring myself to plant them...seems wrong to plant things that are related to the things that I am constantly cursing in my front yard!!!! LOL.

I had pots of them in our home for awhile they bloomed year round and everone loved them . I;d like to get some yellow flowering Oxallis~

Allison seems like I saw them somewhere. If I remember I will let you know- I am sure it was on line. My daughter has some- not yellow- and they look great and they don't spread like the ones in my front yard.