I heard a saying once "a woman can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many silk blouses." Personally I think a woman can be too thin (me until not so long ago), I won't quibble with the rich thing, but the silk blouses I would quite happily replace with "or have too many asiatic lilies growing in her garden." I bought my first asiatic lilies during a Lowes 75% off sale in late spring one year. I found a place to put them and watched that year as they emerged with foliage but no flowers (I did not know at the time that to bloom properly the first year they need to be planted the previous autumn.) As it was I was disappointed but hoped for better the following year. Of course the following year the lilies bloomed and were spectacular, at which point I was (not to put too fine a point on it) hopelessly addicted. I deliberately went to Lowes about the time that they would be reducing their summer bulbs to 75% off and like the hopeless junky I am trampled little old ladies in front of me to snap up every bag I could lay my grubby paws on. As is the way with my plant and bulb buying addictions once I have the said bag of bulbs I have absolutely no idea where I am going to put them. Luckily asiatic lily bulbs are fairly small (as opposed to a potted plant) so finding a spot for them to rest is relatively easy. The great part about it is that once I have planted them I completely forget about them. So it was with delight this year that I found them coming up all over the place. There were yellow ones



The palest of peach



Ivory ones



Pink ones



Orange ones that remind me of orange sherbert,



Yellow and Orange stripy ones



Pure white ones



And even spotty ones that look like they have been spray painted.



This is my favorite time of year when it comes to my garden, when my asiatic lilies are blooming. However, I will not expect you to hold me to that when my oriental lilies are blooming because I will be waxying lyrical about those too:)