{"id":45207,"date":"2014-05-23T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=45207"},"modified":"2014-05-23T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:05:49","slug":"fox-tails-flourish-along-the-seasonal-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/05\/horticulture-2\/fox-tails-flourish-along-the-seasonal-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Tails Flourish Along the Seasonal Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristin Schleiter<\/a> is the NYBG\u2019s Associate Vice President of Outdoor Gardens and Senior Curator. She oversees the wonderful gardening team that keeps our flowering gardens looking top notch, curates the herbaceous gardens and collections, and manages the curator of woody plants. She lives and gardens in Fairfield, CT.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Himalayan fox tail lily
(Eremerus himalaicus<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of my favorite plants on our new Seasonal Walk<\/a> so far is the Himalayan fox tail lily, Eremerus himalaicus<\/em>. Re-designed by renowned designer Piet Oudolf and planted late last fall, it has been a thrill to watch the garden unfold. After a very cold winter filled with lots of nail-biting, the plants have emerged healthy, happy, and simply glorious. As all the best gardens do, this one changes magically from week to week. The leading characters now are our native columbine Aquilegia canadensis<\/em> (complete with hummingbirds darting around enjoying the red and yellow flowers) and the magical Himalayan fox tail lily. Elegant spires of white star-shaped flowers dance gracefully down the length of the double border. They are four feet tall this year, but hold the promise of more height in years to come as they settle in.<\/p>\n

Fox tail lilies are easy to plant. Their tubers look much like a sea star with a whole mess of legs wearing a dunce cap. Dig a hole wide enough to spread out their roots but not too deep\u2014their noses should be just a few inches underground. They don\u2019t enjoy wet soil and love the sun.<\/p>\n

The Seasonal Walk is only just beginning to seduce with its tapestry of plants. I love the fox tail lilies now, but I\u2019m sure there is something else that will start blooming next month that will steal my fickle heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piet Oudoulf’s vision for Seasonal Walk comes to light with swaying fox tails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8093,"featured_media":45223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3824],"tags":[3975,282,1592,94,192],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fox-tail-lily.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bL9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45207"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45230,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45207\/revisions\/45230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}