Lilium, June 2014

[Roma]

Lilium carniolicum
Lilium albanicum
Lilium oxypetalum insigne

[Robert]

Roma,

Thank you for sharing the lovely lily photographs. In our part of California it is a bit hot for L. oxypetalum insgne. I keep trying. They are so beautiful.

Thanks for sharing. They look great!

[Robert]

Yes it is June 

Sometimes our lilies seed around the yard, sometimes the rodents drag them around. This Lilium regale came up and grew through our Magnolia stellata rosea. How it got there I will never know but it works for us!

I grew on some seedlings of 'White Henryi' x henryi many years ago. They are strong growers; taking drought, heat and everything else and they still bloom well every season.

[WimB]

Lilium candidum
and Lilium philadelphum

[Robert]

Down in the Sacramento Valley at our valley home there is a giant Hydrangea macrophylla 'Isu No Hana'. When this Hydrangea was still small I planted some Lilium sagentiae seedlings near it. Clearly I wasn't thinking about how large the Hydrangea would grow. The lily has been dug and moved a few times with pieces remaining. Now a 3 meter lily stalk grows out of the top of this Hydrangea. The photograph is from a piece left from the last time I moved this lily. It is only 2 meters tall.

Lilium davidii is easy and long lived even in the hot Sacramento Valley.

[pontus]

I have finally had sucess with some of my beloved dryland lilium sp! they love teh sun and heat we are having this summer, and some even flowered in may!

lilium kelleyanum, kelloggii and columbianum.

I also have a large bud on my humbolditii.... more images will follow in teh next few days!

Pontus

[Robert]

Pontus,

Are your Lilium kelleyanum fragrant? Lilium kelleyanum grows in our area. I have to admit that I've never seen any that look like yours in our area. Were they grown from wild seed? If so, from what area of California did they come from? Around here, ours are much more orange-red. They are always fragrant.

Anyway, your lilies are beautiful, some with nice trusses! I hope that your L. humboldtii comes on to bloom. They are such a beautiful site.

[pontus]

I cannot remember if they where fragrant, as they finished blooming about 10 days ago, but I think they had a slight fragrance.

do you have pictures of some kelleyanums from your area?

I purchased them from a nursery that had indeed grown them from californian seed originally.

in the whait for humbolditii, here are some more gems...the fabulous Derek Fox hybrid from kelloggii, 'Lake tulare', and also lilium wiginsii and a nice form of pardalinum giganteum as well as Canadense

Pontus

[Robert]

Pontus,

I do not have a photograph of Lilium kelleyanum. It would be interesting to know about yellow forms of L. kelleyanum. It is variable on the east side of the Sierras, so I would not be surprised to find out there are yellow forms. It would be no different than L. parvum that has pink and yellow forms or the gradation of L. pardalinum in the Marble Mountains as it changes to variety or subspecies wigginsii as one moves up the mountain.

Some day I must investigate the lilies on the east side of the Sierras. There is much going on over there with the lilies.

[ashley]

Beautiful lilies Pontus.
I love the form of canadense.

[Tony Willis]

Lilium candidum in the wild-Macedonia last week

[pontus]

And here it is, in my opinion one of the most beautifull lilies in existance! Lilium humbolditii! ....

What a nice surprise it was to find this bloom open this morning!!

Pontus

[Geoforce]

Pontus

Really like you photo od L. canadense.  Don't think I've ever encountered one with spots that widely spread.  I'm more familiar with the buff yellows with spots only in the throat.

Geo

[Roma]

The Martagon lilies are coming into flower

[Robert]

An acceptable pink trumpet seedling to plant out into the garden next season. 

And more L. davidii. This must be their year. Not much variation in this batch of seedlings.