Great winter surprise!

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I had planted a Lilly and some “moss rose” in a container for pure decoration last summer and I thought that it was completely dead! The moss rose was dead to the point of decay and the Lilly had laid down and turned dead brown.
When I was cleaning out some of my dead container plants, this one had some growth underneath all of that dead growth that wilted after our last 10deg cold blast. Get a load of what was growing on under about an inch of dead and decomposing foliage:

YES! The Lilly had wilted and totally covered this new growth! The old dead growth had sacrificed itself to provide a “cold blanket” for the next season’s growth! AMAZING!

This planter was out on the porch in a STEEL box all through the hard freeze
unprotected, and it “took care of itself” this winter!

The above photo is the “after photo” after I had cleaned up all of the dead stuff and gave it a nice topcoat of earthworm castings, dry molasses, and a thin layer of lava-sand..

These little guys should be VERY happy campers come August! {grin}
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• 28 Jan, 2010
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