Lily Season

 

April onwards is Lily season and this year, after a long gap, we had quite a bounty. The lilies usually follow a pattern, starting with the red amaryllis around the Easter weekend. But this year the pretty peach lilies daintily outdid the sturdy bright amaryllis.

Starting out first, they blossomed right through April and well on to May. The red amaryllis showed up a couple of days after Easter, and I sorely missed the white ones.

And that brings me to the yellow May lilies that also arrived early and gave a bumper crop, making up for all the missed years in between. Pity they only bloom one at a time.

Hope this lily bounty repeats itself every year. In the meanwhile, I'll have to search for the missing white amaryllis.