Fairy lilies

Rain Lilies Right on Time

| Flower Roberts

I know that three days after we have a good rain,

my lovely pink rain lilies will burst into bloom.

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Zephyranthus rubustus

Zephyranthus robustus is also called Fairy Lily.

They look like bouquets in the garden.

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Magical!

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I Know They Know

| Flower Roberts

I know they know the difference between real rain water

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and sprinkler water from the lake and well water from the hose.

I know they know this because it happened again.

The sprinkler waters them, they grow with a few blooms.

I water them with the hose, they grow with a few blooms.

Then, it rains two inches last week.

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Everything is clean and refreshed.

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All the plants in the garden perk up.

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A few days later, the Rain lilies explode with blooms.

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I usually call them Fairy lilies, their proper name is Zephyranthus robustus.

I know that they know when the water is rain water.

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I don’t know how they know, but

I know they know.

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Wet Lilies

| Flower Roberts

I know I should not complain about the rain.

After all it does bring out the Rainlilies.

Zephyranthus robustus

Another name for these is Fairy lily/ Zephyranthus robustus.

My daughters lily garden is starting to show blooms and buds are blushing.

A new daylily, Moonlit Masquerade is the first to bloom this year.

Moonlit Masquerade daylily

Its my shoes that are the problem. This North Carolina red clay sticks to everything.

I have run out of dry shoes. My shoe basket by the door is full.

I may be forced to go shoe-shopping. Poor me.

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