Lilium 2015

[Rick R.]

Not blooming now (of course) but back in June.
--- Lilium monadelphum  from seed collected in Georgia.
--- From "Lilium tsingtauense" seed, but not true L. tsingtauense

--- Lilium distichum
--- Lilium maculatum var. wilsonii

[Hoy]

Nice plants Rick! I especially liked the colour of the monadelphum.

[Maggi Young]

I have a real soft spot for lilies  ( except the stinky L. pyrenaicum which Ian is so fond of and which I cannot stand  ) and that monodelphum is just glorious.
Gentle colour, beautiful markings, perfect.

[johnralphcarpenter]

This has to be my favourite, so reliable every year - Lilium auratum, the golden-rayed lily of Japan.

[Maggi Young]

Yes, it is striking without being in any way garish, Ralph. Very lovely.

[Tristan_He]

I love lilies, and especially the North Americans. Here are some photos of a N American hybrid whose parentage I have long since lost, growing from RHS lily group seed exchange - I think it may perhaps be a seedling of 'Coachella'? Anyway, a lovely plant. The red markings usually bleach a bit more giving an all over orange appearance, but we haven't had the sun this year to bleach anything much!

Tristan, wet in Wales.

[Tony Willis]

another Lilium chalcedonicum

[Tristan_He]

Two Dr North lilies, 'Eurydice' and 'Barbara North'

[Maggi Young]

The "North" lilies are not seen much nowadays so a treat to see these, Tristan . I suppose you know that Dr North and his wife were SRGC members?

They wrote quite a bit for  "The Rock Garden" too :
NORTH, C., Into Albania : 86/63
NORTH, Dr. C. and Mrs. M.: Looking for Comperia
on Lesbos, 69/277
New Lilies by Embryo Culture, 63/97
Spring Flowers on the Island of Corfu: 71/143
Minorcan Wild Flowers: 71/149
Sicily 1980: 71/155
Crete and the Lammergaiers, : 72/220
Andalusia and the Costa del Sol, :
73/355
Spring in Majorca, : 74/67
Mojacar in Almeria, : 76/305
Spring flowers of Rhodes, : 77/405
Plant hunting round Cape St
Vincent, : 78/94
Spring in Cyprus
Part 1: The South, : 80/263
Part 2: The North, : 80/341
Flowers and birds in Israel, : 82/52
A quest for the three-fingered habenaria, :
84/240
South West Turkey — Alanya and Antalya, :
84/258
The Gargano, : 85/338
Corsica in Spring, : 87/154
Sicily Revisited, : 88/327
Some Plants of Northern Siberia, : 100/295

[Rimmer de Vries]

it should be pointed out that 'Eurydice' was not bread by Chris North but was bred by Czechoslovakian hybridizer Vaclav Jost,  and registered in 1976 as 'Eurydike'  as a seedling from Dr. North's Araidne.

Eurydice was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo and wife of Orpheus

[Maggi Young]

Thank you, Rimmer.

[Tristan_He]

No, I think these lilies deserve to be more widely grown. I got these from Edrom Nurseries who have a decent selection. Hopefully they will establish.

My mother has a Rosemary North in her garden, which I really must get a bit of.

Somewhere I have a CD / DVD of images of North Lilies that I acquired when I co-ran the seed exchange for the RHS lily group. I'll see if I can find it and post some images.

Eurydice is a nice plant. And I look forward to winding up any literary types who visit by pronouncing it 'You-ree-dice'...

[Rimmer de Vries]

The North hybrids bloomed the end of June to first 2 weeks of July here in South East Michigan, USA

here is Peggy North photographed on 28 Jun '15

[Maggi Young]

Somewhere I have a CD / DVD of images of North Lilies that I acquired when I co-ran the seed exchange for the RHS lily group. I'll see if I can find it and post some images.

That would be great, thanks.

Eurydice is a nice plant. And I look forward to winding up any literary types who visit by pronouncing it 'You-ree-dice'...

It's a name I always sing  - ( Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck)  so I go with  "You-ree-deee-chee " 

[Tony Willis]

Two lilies in flower now.

Lilium tigrinum flowering for the first time. Iwas given it as L. duchartrei. Personally I think the colour is horrible.

Lilium poilanei