A Plant That Grows On Its Own

This is just bizarre. I have one lily plant in my backyard that grows so well. As a matter of fact, it's no ordinary lily plant, it's more like a giant lily plant. Now before I continue about this bizarre plant, I want to mention that nothing grows in my garden accept grass and weeds. Anything that I put in the soil, DIES! This is my 5th year gardening and no success. I'm not kidding. Zero success rate. It has gotten so bad that my family jokes that whenever I go to the nursery to pick up something for my backyard, that plant can feel death approaching.

So here's the thing, nothing grows except for this gigantic lily plant. I didn't even planted it. My neighbor's lily plant pollinated its seeds over to my side of the fence. In due time, I saw a lily plant growing. I was so happy! It grew so nicely and uh, it just kept growing. It grew bigger and taller than my neighbors' lilies. I've never seen anything like it before.

My daughter was in the backyard playing over the weekend and I snapped this picture of her feeling on the lily petal:


As you can see, she was all bundled up. It was so cold but she wanted to go outside and play. She didn't want me to take her picture so she kept looking away. I'm not sure if you can see the height difference, but my daughter is shorter than the tallest lily flower from the plant. Look at the leaves, it's so huge!

Here's another odd thing. I never tended to this plant. I don't even water it. It just grows on its own. It used to be on the right side of my backyard. My husband uprooted it and tossed it to another part of the yard. He forgot to replant it for a few days because he was busy fertilizing the right yard soil. When he was done, he just dug a hole and stuck the lily plant in. I remember it looked dead and then the leaves wilted and the flowers died. So I cut off all the leaves, the stems, and flowers. Well, it just grew back I think late last fall. Our winter was freezing and everything died in my garden...except...this lily plant. It grew and grew and now it's huge. Geez, I wish my rose bush would grow half as nicely has this plant!