Asiatic Lily

We share a driveway (much as we did when living in Staunton) with our neighbors. Only here, we share with two neighbors. Those to our side use the paved drive to connect their driveway to street. We and the ones behinds us use the drive as our driveway and we keep our cars there.

The folks behind us are recent additions to the area...they moved in about two months ago and we don;t know much about them. They are pretty much to themselves. But they do have a large asiatic lily in their front yard and I stopped by to take a few snaps of these impressive flowers.



The blossoms are large, 10-15 cm across and the sex parts in the center are pretty impressively sized.

Here is another view of the private parts of the flower. Of course, they are aren't very private since they are on display for all to see right out front. Like we'd all be if we had on no clothes.

Before the flowers open, they grow to be large pod-shaped items with the flower petals on the outside.

When they open, we get a subtly shaded, translucent blossom of impressive proportions standing on a stalk head high or higher.