We can smell the gold-banded lily now.
At this time of the year they are everywhere, even in our garden, even though we have never planted them. We bought land with lilies.
They are big and beautiful. We have more flowers every year. This year I found more new flowers that weren’t there last year. I heard it takes more than 5 years for a new plant to bloom.
I never knew that we can eat the lily bulb. One of our neighbours said that she digs up the bulbs after the flowers are gone, eats some of them (tempura or something else), and plants the rest again for the next season.
One year when she was about to dig them up, she went outside to her garden and found that wild boars were there before her and had eaten most of them.
I will just enjoy the flowers without eating the bulbs.
今はヤマユリの時期です。
咲き始めると匂いでわかります。我が家の庭には植えたことはありません。土地と一緒にヤマユリもついてきました。
大きくて美しい花です。毎年花の数が増えます。今年は去年にはなかったところにも咲いています。発芽から開花まで少なくても5年かかるそうです。
ヤマユリの球根が食べられるとは知りませんでした。お隣さんのひとりは花が終わったら球根を掘り出し少し切って天ぷらなどにして食べ、残りはまた来年のために植えるといっていました。
ある年、球根を掘り起こそうと庭に出たところ、先にイノシシに食べられて何も残っていなかったそうです。
私は食べずに花を観賞して楽しみます。
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