Lilium 2013

[Gene Mirro]

From earlier in the season (sorry if I already posted these):

Lilium mackliniae, first lily to bloom this year:



Lilium pyrenaicum, very slow from seed:



Lilium mackliniae dark form (note the effect of the backlighting from the setting sun):



Lilium bulbiferum croceum:



Lilium martagon album, Lilium mackliniae dark form, Nomocharis pardanthina (?):

[Dick Cheung]

Lilium speciosum var. gloriosoides (Taiwanese form)
The first gloriosoides in this year.

[gote]

Re lijiangense.
I agree that it must be frost hardy, I have grown it unprotected for some six years. I also grow in semi-shade in acid humusy  soil. The site is sloping so there is no stagnant water. One rised from seed growing in non-sloping situation died after flowering once. Lijiangense seems to be self-fertile. It does not like being moved - maybe I did it in the wrong season.
Göte

[greenspan]

Re lijiangense
... It does not like being moved...

interesting...after removing mine, i lost them, means they didn't appear the following year.

@dick cheung

wonderful gloriosoides ...i hope my gloriosoides (from china) show their flowers this year. they are producing buds but are far away from flowering (photo from mid of june)

[David Nicholson]

My one remaining plant of Lilium regale from a batch of seed sown quite a few years ago now.

I have a batch of plants sown from Exchange seed in 2009 described as L. martagon nearing flowering that I have lovingly tended since sowing but they look in bud remarkably like L. regale. All will be revealed in the next few days.

[Matt]

Lilium henryi - in flower now in my garden - is quite common but nevertheless a great plant and a great performer en masse...especially if one is not so lucky to garden in a cooler climate and doesn't have a nice&soft acidic soil!
My L. henryi grow in poor dry & stony calcareous soil in a quite hot position...if the base is in shade they can also take full sun (I mean Mediterranean sun). It is a very useful summer flowering species for southern gardens (shame that there is no scent)...much more generous longer lasting and undemanding than L. candidum that it is always somehow tricky to grow...flowers at the beginning of June and lasts only a week!.

M.

[Tony Willis]

mine in flower at the moment

Lilium tsingtauense grown from scales sent to me by Martin Baxendale
Lilium martagon ssp cataniae from Mt Falackro in Greece
Lilium martagon from Mt Voros (Kymachalan) in Greece
Lilium hansonii

[David Nicholson]

I have a batch of plants sown from Exchange seed in 2009 described as L. martagon nearing flowering that I have lovingly tended since sowing but they look in bud remarkably like L. regale. All will be revealed in the next few days.

Ah, mystery solved. A bit of wrong label in wrong pot, it's actually Lilium brownii, pics tomorrow.

[Tim Ingram]

Extraordinary to see so many wonderful species in one go, especially from Gene! Hardly any grow well in our summer dry garden except for L. candidum (grown from seed from Jim Archibald) and L. chalcedonicum. I must persevere with some of the west coast Americans. We were just thinking of inviting a speaker on the genus to our Group - any suggestions? Harris Howland lives not too far away but I think may have a greater interest in hybrids rather than species.

[Gene Mirro]

"Summer dry garden" sounds perfect for the NW USA species.

[David Nicholson]

Ah, mystery solved. A bit of wrong label in wrong pot, it's actually Lilium brownii, pics tomorrow.

Having looked at them to my uneducated eye they are Lilium regale. Far too hot to do anything today, thermometer on outside of greenhouse reading a little over 33C (92F) mid-afternoon but will try to get pictures tomorrow. Am now resolved never too complain again about drizzly rainy summer days!

[Roma]

And you put the shading on your greenhouse,too.  I didn't do mine after what happened last year and am regretting it now but I keep thinking this can't last

I have about 30 pics of Lilium martagon and am trying to decide which to show

[David Nicholson]

A little cooler today, didn't get much more than 28C (82F)! Primulas in the greenhouse surviving well under quite a few layers of fleece. Same can't be said for miscellaneous seedlings that, although under the bench and covered with a few pages of newspaper, have crisped to dust, apart from a couple of dozen Lewisia cotyledon seedlings which cling on to life. Was going to give the Exchanges a miss this year, but not now.

Ah well, back to Lilium regale masquerading as L. brownii, under the wrong label as L. martagon! Here are three pics of the plants I've grown from Exchange seed as L. brownii. They certainly bear a strong similarity to my L. regale but I'm no Lilium expert. Would welcome views please.

First pic-flower head
Second pic-as above but side view
Third pic-leaf and stem

[Tony Willis]

Two more flowering

Lilium amoenum
Lilium Red Russia

[pontus]

Hello David,

your mystery lilium is defenitely regale, brownii tends to flower later and has quite short scattered leaves and above all, a white bulb, while regale has a purple bulb.

the scet in regale is fabulous and unforgettable, while the brownii scent is hmmm...a bit less so...brownii i find is also not very long lived, while regale is.

I am enjoying my big clump of regale now and will try to post some images tonight or tomorrow....my tallest specimen in now 2 meters tall with 20 flowers, with a stem as thick as a bamboo cane!

Pontus