Our May Active Rain Contest is about The May Flowers
Brought To Us By The April Showers.
We had a lot of showers this year - mostly a blessing!
Brought to Us By The Fabulous Debe Maxwell, CRS
Shower Power:
🌷🌹 Flaunt Your Fabulous Blooms 🌸🌺
Brought to Life by April Showers! 🌧🌨🌦
One of the biggest perks of moving from The Bay Area to San Diego was the ability to finally grow tropical flowers and plants. The love affair with this class of gardening that was created in me as a kid in Hawai'i. Now as a kid that got to grow up visiting my grandparents often in Maui, Hawaii I fell in love with Anthuriums for their plastic look and deep red color, Plumeria for their lovely fragrance and Hibiscus for their brilliant colors and size.
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However, this post is to honor my bride Ailina, who's favorite flower of all is the Stargazer Lily. Which offer in one flower what all my mentioned flower do individually.
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The Stargazer Lily is so perfect it looks manmade like the Anthurium, only made of silk not plastic.
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The Stargazer Lily is so fragrant, like my beloved Plumeria, that it wafts throughout our garden like perfume and the cut flowers put any scented candle to shame.
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The Stargazer Lily offers vibrant colors like the hibiscus, deep pinks, purples and red popping off a brilliant white petal.
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Ailina Nelson introduced me to these beauties and so I bought the seeds for them at the Carlsbad Flower Fields one Spring and started growing them in our Townhome's container garden. They are as lovely as my bride. 💖
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About the Stargazer Lily: Known for their fragrant perfume, blooming mid-to-late summer traditionally but I often get blooms in Spring. Stargazers are fairly easy to grow and respond best to full sunlight. Your garden or pots need to be well drained and they prefer loamy or sandy soil. They are known as a hybrid Oriental Lily aka Lillium, they offer 3-6 blooms per stalk, grow to about 2'-3' tall and they are rewarding to grow and pop in any garden in zones 3-9. Other zones may require a green house. Enjoy!
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