Bela Lugosi and Nosferatu day lilies
Bela Lugosi was the Hungarian actor who played Count Dracula in the 1931 film, Dracula. Often, when people do any sort of Dracula imitation with an accent, they are imitating Lugosi, even if they don’t know it.
Nosferatu is also a vampire, the title character in Nosferatu (1922), a silent, German expressionist film. Quite a handsome fella, isn’t he?
When I found day lilies named after both of these movie monsters, I jumped at the chance to put them in the same bed.
Here is the Bela Lugosi:
And here is the Nosferatu:
Of course, everyone. knows one of the things that vampires cannot abide is wolfsbane (aka monkshood). So, in an effort to keep things balanced, I planted wolfsbane in the same bed. Unfortunately, the wolfsbane won’t bloom until later, but it still is fun to have them so close.
