False Positive

Last year I had spread a package of Chocolate Lily seeds amongst the shady and protected areas between the ferns. The Chocolate Lily is a very native species to the west coast and very difficult to find. So I was very excited when I discovered a sprikle of shoots popping up all around last year's dead fern fronds. But now that the leaves have spread out, they are not the wisps of the Chocolate Lily, but the broad and flat panels of False Lily of the Valley.

I really shouldn't complain, because a garden can never have enough lilies, in my opinion. But False Lily of the Valley? They're just so...common(!). Big sigh.