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Foxfire

Rectangular Callout: Foxfire Tuber

Text Box: Foxfire This is my first year growing this lily here on the high plains of Colorado. By the way, by high plains I mean almost 5,000 feet above sea level. Normally, I plant all the tropical lilies when the water is 68 to 70 degrees F. I have noticed that the darker blue tropical lilies can handle a little cooler water temperatures than the other tropical lilies. So I planted the Foxfire when the water temperature was 60 degrees F. I planted it in a 3 gallon container using claylike soil and 3 fertilizer spikes. In no time at all, this lily became one of my favorites. It took off rapidly from where I placed it at an 18 inch depth from the rim of the container, to the surface of the water. It sent up large leaves, and though the blooms were small at first, by the time June rolled around they were almost 8 inches across, and the colors by the 2nd and 3rd day were so intense the blooms didn’t look real. The outer colors of the petals of the flower are a Kashmir blue and the center a Padparadscha orange. Many of the customers that came to the farm this summer wanted to touch the blooms because they didn’t believe the blooms were real. Needless to say this lily became the centerpiece of my pond until the end of the season and it is now residing in the pond of one of my favorite customers in Florida.