If a voodoo lily shows up unbidden in my garden, does that mean someone, somewhere, is sticking a pin in a doll that looks like me? That could explain the vague aches and pains I've noticed lately, ...
While I don’t expect many readers have voodoo lily questions, I am sharing this exchange with you for two gardening lessons. The first lesson, as this column has already shown, is that one expert is ...
San Diego Botanic Garden announced Wednesday that a “voodoo lily” — a smaller relative of the giant corpse plant — is blooming now and can be seen for the next day or two. The Amorphophallus konjac, ...
In one of my gardens, I have a Dracunculus vulgaris. It’s also called a “corpse lily,” “voodoo lily” or “stink lily,” because it smells like decaying meat. Lancaster County Master Gardener Jen Mohler ...
Back in 2013, while visiting Betty Hall, I noticed a large, burgundy, white-speckled, strange-looking lily growing in the shade garden behind her home. “That’s a voodoo lily,” Betty said. “It is ...
A voodoo lily recently caused a stink at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen. The flower bloomed inside the Arb’s Meyer-Deats Conservatory and one of its defining features is its smell.
Voodoo lily is a most unusual plant, beginning with the fact that it flowers reliably in midwinter without even being planted in soil. Set the tuber, which is about the size of a softball, in a saucer ...
The stinky plant has put up its annual bloom — a 4-foot-tall, cone-shaped stalk surrounded by a blood-red frill. The stalk gives off an odor like rotting flesh to attract flies for pollination, said ...