Floral
I Thought Lilies and Tiger Lilies Were Different Flowers Until I Learned the Truth
For years, I thought lilies and tiger lilies were completely different plants. Whenever I saw elegant white flowers in a florist’s shop, I called them lilies. When I spotted bright orange flowers growing along hiking trails or in country gardens, I assumed they belonged to an entirely different family. It seemed obvious. One looked refined and delicate. The other looked wild and untamed. One appeared in wedding bouquets. The other appeared on hillsides and mountain paths. In my mind, they couldn’t possibly be the same thing. As it turns out, I was wrong. The surprise wasn’t that they were related. The surprise was discovering that tiger lilies are lilies. The difference wasn’t about being separate flowers. It was more like