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My neighbor has been growing this on her deck all summer in 2 large pots, and it's been in flower all summer! I love the colors and the fact that it's been in bloom so long. It looks so familiar to me, but I just cannot remember?

Help?
(shhhhh - don't tell her that I took a flower while watering the plants for them while they are away on a cruise! )

I cannot help you,but......it is simply beautiful!!!!
...and BTW:.....My lips are sealed. :wink:

Lynne--I looked it up could it be Alstroemeria..... (peruvian Lilly)

You are absolutely correct Carol - thank you soooooooooooo much!

Now I need to FIND one!!!
(no I'm not going to hijack theirs while they are away!)

OK then--hijack it when they return--besides perhaps the deer like to eat them??? --hey, it could happen right???

I Love it too-----so pretty--beautiful actually

I have pervian lily's lynne But non that color I love that one!! the blooms do last a long time !!!

Diane - I had pinched off that one bloom days ago - it is still in the same shape on my kitchen counter - not in water, nothing - just sitting there!!! Almost doesn't look real!

i have a question about these. are they daylily type lilies or are they bulb type lilies? do they multiply?

Alstromeria are a bulbous root. They multiply like the dickens but not invasively.

thank you tina. that's what i needed to decide if i wanted to get some. and i do

Not all alstromeria are created equal. Here is mine from an overhead view from a couple years ago.. Each flower tube is about 1 1/2 inches.

And from a different angle

that is beautiful! i knew they wouldn't all be equal, but i still want some. scott is going to dig some new flower beds for me (he decided it is easier than mowing) and i will put them there. so i won't get them until he digs, because he is slower than i am

I can send you some of mine along with your worms this fall, Jiffy. (you might need to remind me of both)
I haven't seen them available as naked bulbs anywhere. Just in pots already growing in their season. The bulbs might dry too fast or something to make it commercially viable. But mine I bare rooted from a neighbor and planted at leisure and didn't lose any.

nice. when the weather cools.

I got mine as bulbs at walmart a couple of years ago,, comes in packages with peat moss,, ,

Very pretty, Diane. I will keep on watching for them here. I have just never seen them in bulbs like that. Cool.