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In Bloom: 2010-06-28 Out of Bloom: 2010-08-01 Growth Type: Bulb Hardiness Zones: 3 - 7 Location at Monticello: West Lawn Oval Bed Planting Conditions: Partial Shade |
Turk's-cap lily
Lilium superbum (Click image to enlarge) |
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| In 1809 Jefferson wrote to Judge William Fleming, a lifelong friend in Richmond, and and thanked him for sending the foliage of the "Alleghany Martagon . . . A plant of so much beauty & fragrance will be a valuable addition to our flower gardens. Should you find your roots of it I shall be very thankful to participate of them, & and will carefully return you a new stock should my part succeed & yours fail." Jefferson also ordered this tall and stately native lily with its reddish-orange flowers from McMahon in 1812.
Adapted from Thomas Jefferson's Flower Garden at Monticello by Edwin M. Betts and Hazlehurst Bottom Perkins; revised and enlarged by Peter J. Hatch.  Visit Monticello's Online Shop to check for seeds or plants of Turk's-cap lily.
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