Conca d' Or hybrid lily

The label said OT Hybrid Lily Conca D' Or

I say "HUGE!!!"

I just liked the way the blooms looked laying on my diningroom table.

Back on July 1st, I posted several photographs of my daylily flowerbeds, here. In that post I mentioned a tall lily that I would post later, when it bloomed. This is it. These photos are a little overdue, since the lily has already finished blooming.

To get around my daylilies I had to cut the new shoots on the edges, they were not as tall, and I kept stepping on them. That is where I got the blooms laying on the table. I put them in water and gave them to a friend. She enjoyed them for close to a week. This is one of the sweetest smelling flowers in my yard.

Conca d' Or Lily

I bought this lily at the Oakes Daylilies Festival thinking it was an asiatic or oriential which are both perennials. I may have made a mistake. Now reading the tag it is an OT Hybrid Lily. I am not sure this one can stay in the ground during the winter. It really is beautiful with the largest blooms I have ever seen on a lily, but I wasn't planning on just one year. I prefer perennials. Time will tell if I made a mistake.