Sargent's Lily

A much better day after yesterday's rain. It turned into a bright one with the sun coming out later - a cuppa on the deck kind of late afternoon!

I finished chopping up the bigger saplings from my heap of prunings and  now have four bulk bags ready to go to the dump tomorrow. Did some weeding too and Mrs M hoed the gravel to get rid of some of the white Herb Robert which began as a very attractive variant, but is proving to be very much more invasive than it first seemed. I've decided to get rid of it in all but a couple of pots on the deck. It's seeding down the bank, down the drive and growing through all the other trailing alpines on the edge of the drive bed. Just too rampant for its own good, unfortunately!

My Blip today is of Lilium sargentiae, a beautiful lily from Sichuan in China. It seems happy in a pot which is just as well as I don't know where to plant it out. It's supposed to enjoy a lot of sun, but is also quite hardy. It produces bulbils in the leaf axils so if anyone wants some . . . .