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Originally Posted by suesiegel
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
I do not claim to be an expert but, I am growing rain lilies.
I bought them as rain lilies and the match the information and pictures on the internet. They grow from a small bulb roughly 1/2 an inch high and in diameter. The leaves look much like grass, narrow strands, about 10 inches long. The flowers are either white or pink depending on the variety and strangely they appear at the ends of what I described as grass leaves.
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I bought our rain lily bulbs in the fall two years ago. Since they are bulbs, most bulbs will rot in wet soil so I added perlite and manure to our clayey sand or sandy clay Took a year for them to get established. I purchased 15 bulbs.
Now 2 years later each bulb has split into 4 or 5 plants and they are blooming their heads off. As stated the flowers are at the end of what I describe as looking like grass.
They are single flowers, not groups as in the op. Each flower is about the size of a silver dollar.
So far-they are bullet proof. Due to fine leaf structure, I've used PREEN on them. You would not want to need to weed them.