{"id":15283,"date":"2013-03-27T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15283"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:12:29","slug":"when-is-a-lily-not-a-lily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/when-is-a-lily-not-a-lily\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a Lily Not a Lily"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Water<\/a><\/p>\n

The answer to the question ‘When is a Lily Not a Lily’ must be, when it does not belong to the Lilium genus of the Liliaceae family.
\nDespite the common names listed below bearing lily in the name they are not botanically Lilies.<\/p>\n

Plants Masquerading as Lilies<\/strong>
\nCorn Lily
\nAfrican ‘Aagapanthus’ lily
\nArum lily
\nBelladonna lily
\nBugle lily
\nDaylily ‘Hemorocallis’
\n\"Day<\/a>
\nGlory Lily
\nGuernsey Lily
\nKaffir Lily
\nLily of the valley
\nLily Pink
\nRain Lilies
\nPeruvian Lily
\n\"Eden<\/a>
\nPlantain ‘hosta’ Lily
\nSt Bernard or St Bruno Lily
\nScarborough Lily
\nToad Lily
\nTorch Lily
\nVoodoo Lily
\nWater Lily
\nWood ‘trillium’ Lily
\n\"Asian<\/a>
\nThe real McCoy a group of Asian Lilies.<\/p>\n

I was tempted to create this post after just ordering a crate of 200 Oriental Lilies to plant for cut flowers and a shock and awe feature in our late summer garden. <\/p>\n

Of course most Aunt Lily’s are not from the lily family but there may be someone with a surname of Liliaceae and that would presumably make them qualify. Lonnie Donnegan had a dustbin full of lilies and was told to throw them away then but he couldn’t as ‘lilies still wearing them’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a Lily’s Not a Lily’ , when it does not belong to the Lilium genus of the Liliaceae family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}