12/09/24

 Happy Monday and happy new week!  Today's image is another of my Toad Lily.  It's a very unique looking flower that does well in shade.  It is, apparently, a very tasty flower as every year something eats most of it.  I even had a cage around it but will have to put a different type this next year as something still got to it.  Anyway, this photo shows off some of the unique details of it pretty well I thought.

10/18/24

 It's Friday, TGIF!  My Japanese Toad Lily has been blooming lately.  It is a very interesting and different plant I think.  The blooms are rather unique looking.  They are in the Lily family and are a plant that prefers shade.  I chose this image for today because of the lovely bubbly bokeh because, as you know if you follow the Blog, Friday's Are Bokehlicious!

10/30/23

 Happy Monday and new week.  Autumn has really arrived now and we will be having a lot cooler temperatures than we had been.  I doubt and of my flowers will have made it through the cold weekend.  That part makes me sad and very much looking forward to spring again.  Anyway, this is my Toad Lily, a rather unique flower.  I only got 2 blooms off of it this year because something ate most of it half way down before I was able to protect it.  I will have to keep protection around it earlier now as it is not the first time something has eaten it.  This is a 3 image focus stack.  Toad Lilies get their name from the spotted flowers and warty sac-like bumps which are the nectar secreting glands.  They originally came from Japan.

10/15/21

 It's Friday!  TGIF!  My Toad Lily is blooming.  I love this plant, very unique and photogenic I think.  I got this image of it last week and love the bubbly bokeh in it.  Of course I had to share it today because Friday's Are Bokehlicious!  These are in the Lily Family and grow best in shade.  I have them on the east side of my house.  They have orchid like blossoms.

12/14/20

 I love my Toad Lilies, they are so unique looking.  Each year the plant gets larger and produces more blooms.  This year several blooms were frozen out by the early frost but I did manage to capture several before that.  This is a 3 image focus stack of a couple of them open.

10/26/20

 Every year my Toad Lily produces more stalks and more blooms which is exactly what I would hope it would do.  😀  This is one of the groups that I took an image of just as it was starting to bloom.  Tricyritis hirta, the Toad Lily or Hairy Toad Lily is a Japanese species of a hardy Lily plant.  It is easy to see why it is called "hairy" when you view it larger.  This is a 3 image focus stack for better detail.  Toad Lilies grow best in the shade and bloom in the autumn.

12/16/19

Sorry about the late posting of the image yesterday.  Forgot to set the time for it.
We had quite the nice snow yesterday.  As I write this it is at least 4 inches and still coming down quite heavily.  It's actually quite lovely when you don't have to go out in it.  
My image today is a 5 image Focus Stack of my Toad Lily from a different angle than I shared previously.  This flower is a quite interesting one I think and lovely despite it's name.  Because of the mottled color and the fact that they prefer shade is where the name originates from.

10/28/19

My Toad Lily is blooming and has the most blooms on it that it has ever had.  The bad part is that it is supposed to get down in the 20s this week so it probably will not get a chance to finish blooming.  Sigh.  I captured this image of it which is actually a 4 image focus stack a few days ago.

12/20/16

Only 5 days till Christmas, are you all ready?  I am not!  Hope to change that a bit today.  My image is of one of my rather unique flowers I found while looking for shade loving plants.  This is called a Toad Lily but the flower reminds of an Orchid.  I had moved the plant from where I had originally planted it due to rats eating it and not allowing it to bloom.  It really seemed to enjoy where I moved it because it grew larger than it had ever been and produced more blooms. This is a macro of several of the blooms it produced.  As always, clicking on it will enlarge it to view details better.

2/5/16

Quite the busy day today, it's Friday and not supposed to be that way.  I am also dreaming of summer.  I took this a while back because this year something ate the buds off of the plant before it could even bloom, I think it was an evil Pack Rat.  I am going to move the plant to a more protected spot this Spring if it survives.  Anyway, this is a bloom on my Toad Lily plant that produces these interesting orchid like blooms.