Lilium 2013

[Dick Cheung]

Hello David

I think your flower is regale
My brownii is blooming now
there are some photos for you
some brownii would be a bit yellow in the first day, but it would turn to white in color in the second day
these photos were taken in the first day

Dick

[Roma]

Is anyone growing Lilium hybrids from the SRGC 2009/2010 list, donated by Ray McNamara from New Zealand?
I now have 13 bulbs one of which flowered last year and 11 are flowering or going to flower this year.
No 2 flowered on the 12th and No's 3 and 4 on the 15th

[Roma]

No 3 has a huge flower

[Roma]

I think No 4 has an elegant shape.  It has brown pollen.

[Brian Ellis]

I don't grow those Roma, but today noticed this one, I have it labelled as Lilium canadense.

[David Nicholson]

Thank you Dick and Pontus for your confirmation of my Lilium regale. As far as scent is concerned I think I have a malfunction in the olfactory department, I can't detect a scent at all

[pontus]

my main clummp of lilium regale by the garden entrance, with the tallest stem being almost 2 meters tall, and martagon hybrid theodor haber by the front door, as well as martagon hybrid black prince and lilium lankongense.

Pontus

[David Nicholson]

Lovely regale Pontus. Of the plant I have had the longest I've never had more than one flower on it and my newer ones (masquerading as brownii!) and flowering for the first time have only one flower per stem.

[Peppa]

Two more flowering

Lilium amoenum
Lilium Red Russia

Wonderful lilies, everybody! I enjoyed looking at the beautiful flowers. I especially drooled over Tony's L. amoenum!

I just got the first flowers from L. fargesii seed and am very excited about it. It's hard to tell from the pictures but the flowers are quite small.

[Susan Band]

Last night a few of us visited a lady nearby who is collecting the Lilies breed by Dr Chris North who worked the Invergowrie plant research station.
These lovely liles  were bred with the aim for producing Lilies particularly suitable for Scotland. They were unfortunatly  never taken up by any commercial producer and are now really hard to find. She has managed to find a remarkable amount of them but is still looking for a few elusive few.
Here are some examples:
Lilium Pan
Lilium Ariadna
Lilium Minos
Lilium Eileen

Susan

[greenspan]

i have problems to identify true Lilium regale. as far as i know, regale flowers are arranged in an umbel, the leaves should be very narrow, just like gras leaves. here an illustration in flora of china (the right one) + here a photo of a native location (seems so).

at least one of pontus regale on his photo above (the tallest one) looks like flowering in a panicle. the leaves are too broad...my perception. could they be hybridized?

[pontus]

Hello Greenspan,

Yes, I have had this feeling for quite a few years about this particular specimen, in fact, I was about to post a post about it with comparative pictures of leaves and stem, as this particular plant is always much taller and much more vigorous than the other regale in the clump, the leaves are dark green and almost 2 cm's wide, while, as you say, usual regale leaves are very thin...almost grasslike.

The flowers are also very slightly different...slightly smaller than usual regale, but have the same unmistakable scent...

I am starting to think that it could almost be a Sir Peter Smithers hybrid.....could there be leucanthum centifolium in the breeding? As it flowers at the same time to the other regale that would be a bit strange...as leucanthum is much later flowering...

any ideas on this mystery lilly?

i will post a few more pictures of it when i return home again on friday

Pontus

[Maggi Young]

Last night a few of us visited a lady nearby who is collecting the Lilies breed by Dr Chris North who worked the Invergowrie plant research station.
These lovely liles  were bred with the aim for producing Lilies particularly suitable for Scotland. They were unfortunatly  never taken up by any commercial producer and are now really hard to find. She has managed to find a remarkable amount of them but is still looking for a few elusive few.
Here are some examples:
Lilium Pan
Lilium Ariadna
Lilium Minos
Lilium Eileen

Susan

I'm pleased to hear there is someone in Scotland working to collect these lilies together. Well worthwhile - I wish her every success.

[johnw]

Peppa  - That green-flowered L. fargesii is sensational, small or not.   I adore green flowers.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

The fargesii is really super and small is good anyway. But the Scottish forms are lovely too. I bought 3 of one the other day, an Asiatic hybrid, called 'Black Spider. Haven't seen it yet but if the packaging is anything like, it will be a deep cream to yellow, with a centre of black, with lines and dots out-stretching from it. Another, called 'Landine' seems to be almost totally black! I love green flowers too but also black ones.