I have previously lamented the loss of the tiger lilies which I had for many, many years. You can see one (lower left) in the image above from 1993.

Last summer was quite dry, and I don’t recall seeing the tiger lilies at all. The summer before was dry as well. I think there were tiger lilies then.

Earlier this year, I looked where the tiger lilies have been for many years. All that I could find were the rotted out roots of plants long gone. I found some bulblis I had previously collected, but hadn’t planted. They were dried out but I gave them a try anyway. As expected, no luck.

You know, I would have opened this post with a picture of the Tiger Lily flower, but, apparently, I haven’t taken a picture of one in years! Obviously, I didn’t have any pictures from 2007 or 2008, but I looked further. Nothing. None since getting my digital camera back in 2002.

I might have some photos from my old 110 camera; in fact, I’m reasonably sure I do. But, I didn’t feel like looking through all those, then scanning them in. (I haven’t digitized all my old photos yet.) But, I had started digitizing some of my old videos last May, and I found the image above in a video. Yes, that was about the best clip I could find. No flowers though.

Anyway, I was outside a few weeks ago, and what did I see? Tiger lilies! Yay! They are coming back. Some did survive after all. In the hopes of not “losing” them again, I dug one up and brought it inside. It’s still doing well, but not as well as the ones outside:

That photo is from April 18th. They’re taller now.

I think I need to either move the indoor one to a sunnier window, or move it outside. I think I’ll try it in a sunnier window first. If it doesn’t grow better, then I can look at moving it outside, probably to a different location than the other Tiger Lilies, just so I can have them established in more than one location.

And, this year, I’ll have to remember to take pictures of the flowers!!! (So long as there is no drought!)

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