Lilium 2016

[Roma]

Forgot this one
Lilium 'Lankon'

[Maggi Young]

Roma, your garden is, as ever, a delight - to see plants enjoying life so much is a real pleasure.  Those L. martagon are  "locally plentiful" and no mistake! Superb display!

[Leena]

Roma, you have wonderful martagons, and a lot of them! Martagons are my favourite lilies, but mine are here and there in the garden, and I don't get such a good display as when they are planted together.

[Roma]

I didn't plant them, Leena.  Apart from one clump of the white one and one of the dark var. cattaniae they are all self sown.  I cut off the seed heads now and just leave a few for the seed exchanges.  I have to do the same with Tulipa sprengeri.

[Tony Willis]

Lilium papilleferum

[Tony Willis]

Lilium chalcedonicum

[Tony Willis]

Lilium canadense red form

[johnw]

Lovely red canadense there Tony.  It's found in nearby New Brunswick but we've been unable to get seed.  Is it indeed shorter than regular canadense?


Long ago a friend in Devon, Wanna Reardon-Smith, was desperate for it.  I contacted a botanist in NB and he kindly collected it a few years later and sent me a tiny bulb.  I went through horrendous paperwork to get it to Wanna, she was ecstatic to get it but sadly she died a few months later.  She was a big & formidable plantswoman from Yorkshire.  My introduction to her: Not a hello but looked me straight in the eye and said "Differences between Magnolia sieboldii and M. wilsonii", I was quaking in my boots. She had a NC of Paris.


john 

[Tony Willis]

John first flowering and it is not at all typical. It is about 18 inches this time but the flower is on a long arching pedicil . As it was developing I was convinced it was not going to be true so very pleased it is.

[Tristan_He]

Here are a couple of lilies I grew years ago from RHS lily group seed. I have long ago lost the parentage. The red one I think has L. parvum in it. PM me if you would like a few scales.





This orange one is paler than usual this year, perhaps due to the lack of sunshine and cool temperatures.

[Tony Willis]

Tristan,very lovely

Lilium brownii from Chen-yi

[Gabriela]

Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno', not very fond of double flowers but I allow it since it's an old variety. I don't want it to spread around so I will collect the bulbils - if anyone is interested please let me know (keep in mind I can only send them in Canada).

[Steve Garvie]

Lilium rubescens


Lilium canadense var. coccineum

[vanozzi]

Very nice liliums Tristan!
Here is L. cernuum f. Baranova flowering this past season.

[Rimmer de Vries]

lily catesbaei growing between the saricineas 19 July