CALLA LILIES

Calla Lilies have long been a favorite of mine.

There is something about their simple elegance

 

That draws me in.

They remind me somehow of Audrey Hepburn

Elegant

Graceful

Spunky.

I didn’t even try them in my garden

For the longest time.

The catalogs said they weren’t hardy

In my zone.

And I steer away from anything

That has to be dug in the fall.

It’s all I can do to get everything buried

Come fall

Let alone start digging things up.

But several years ago I decided

To give it a try.

 

After all in my gardening lifetime

I’ve gone from a zone 6

To 6b

And now we are Zone 7.

Not good news for the planet for sure.

But it has meant that I can leave more things

In the ground come time for a freeze

Amaryllis

Dahlias

And now Calla Lilies

Seem to survive our winters.

The first few years

Were mostly foliage.

Which is fun

Since their foliage

Is speckled

Like a child’s freckled nose.

Then I began to get a few flowers.

Which I have loved

But seldom cut.

Cut flowers don’t last as long

As when they are still connected

To their mother plant.

So I’ve just loved them in the garden

Rather than in a vase.

Then came this year.

All the patches of Callas I’ve spread

Throughout the shady parts of my garden

Over the years

Have bloomed.

One plant has bloomed out of it’s mind

NINE blooms so far.

I’m still not cutting any.

I just like them in their natural state.

Some things simply like to be

Left alone.

I have days like that!

Gail

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Audrey Hepburn