Image: Applying Fertilizer Around Red Blood Lilies
Published: September 27, 2026 at 8:50:33 AM UTC
Close-up garden image of vivid red blood lilies as a gloved hand applies granular fertilizer to the dark soil around the plants.
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Image description
A landscape-oriented close-up garden image showing several vivid red, spherical blood lily flower heads growing from dark soil. The flowers are composed of many thin red filaments radiating outward, with small yellow-orange tips. Thick, smooth green stems support the flower heads above clusters of broad, glossy green leaves. On the right side of the image, a person's hand wearing a green-and-black gardening glove holds a small brown scoop tilted downward toward the soil. Numerous small round fertilizer granules, primarily white and reddish brown, are visibly falling from the scoop and accumulating on the soil around the base of the plants. The foreground consists of dark, moist-looking, coarse soil containing pieces of organic material. The blood lilies occupy most of the left and central portions of the composition, while the gloved hand and fertilizer scoop occupy the right. The background contains additional green garden vegetation, patches of soil, and several rocks, all rendered with noticeably softer focus than the main subjects. Natural daylight illuminates the scene, producing saturated reds and greens and revealing fine detail in the flowers, leaves, glove, fertilizer granules, and soil. No containers, packaging, logos, brand names, labels, or other readable text are visible. The exact composition or chemical type of the fertilizer cannot be determined from the image alone.
The image is related to: Blood Lily: A Complete Guide to Growing It in Your Own Garden