A Beautiful Surprise :)

[Mamu]

As you know I love gardening, I love plants the common and the unusual. None more then woodland plants. I have a passion for unusual shade plants.

I also love the peace of gardening. I am rewarded daily to lifes beauty when a new flower blooms.

Yesterday on a daily stroll through the gardens on the shady side of the house, looking to see the many task ahead as fall has approached. I am stopped dead in my tracks.

There is a plant that I planted back in June (before the heat and drought of the summer shut-me down), in full bloom. The most magnificant, delicate, exotic flowers of the Toad Lily.

I surely will plant more of these beautiful flowers next year.

"Variegated" Tricyrtis Hirta (http://www.thompson-morgan.com/plants/pages/product_8795_1.html)

[amid chaos]

Whoa!!!! That's magnificant....sure doesnt look like any toad I've ever seen!

[olena]

How incredibly beautiful!

[Snowwark]

What a delightful surprise for you Mamu! :) It really is lovely, and very different. :) A nice treasure to stumble upon!

[gina2000]

I have ALWAYS wanted a toad lily!

Mamu.....how wonderful that it lasted through the drought. I have a side of my house that is predominently dry shade....perhaps this beauty would do fine there!

Thanks for sharing!

[Tulirose]

And I can't think of anyone more deserving of such a beautiful surprise......

:D

[TigH]

WOW! That is an amazing looking plant. Glad you got such a wonderful surprise. And it's growing in the north? ;)