First Lily Flower

Today,  my first Lily bloomed.

This Lily is always the first Lily in my garden to produce flowers.  

However, this year, the Lily bloomed almost 3 weeks later than it bloomed last year.

I think this is attributed to the fact that the Lily is almost a foot taller than it was last year.

It will be interesting to see whether the Lily will continue to grow taller (and bloom later) next  year.

The picture below shows the flower bed that contains this Lily today and what it looked like a year ago.  Notice that this Lily had already stopped blooming at this time last year.