Lilium 2016

[Tristan_He]

Lilium pyrenaicum is always the first to flower for me, even though it's quite late to come above ground. I love this lily, so easy and makes a beautiful, if short-lived show.

[winwen]

My China gloriosoides did not set seeds because I have only one flowering plant in this year.
but I have some Taiwan gloriosoides that I can get seeds.

Dick and Axel,
very nice plants - Thanks for the photos!
Whenever I see L. gloriosoides (or L. speciosum v. gloriosoides) in cultivation, my first question always is:
How do you cultivate it? What do you use as substrate and how moist or dry do you keep it?

[partisangardener]

This single plant if it is one, grows in broken expanded clay. The bulb is surrounded with charcoal pieces. Under the bulb is some soil from a fir-wood mixed to it. I fertilize with Osmocote.
The pot is in my Studio which is unheated but mostly frost free. Since this spring, it gets some spraying with Borax solution. The foamed clay might be a source of boron too.
Here are more pictures of an early stage and a detailed recipe for this plant in German.
http://forum.garten-pur.de/index.php/topic,52005.840.html

Thats what the bud looks like at the moment.

[johnstephen29]

The first of my species lilium said are in flower, fist is the small L. tenuiflium with bright red flowers, next is L. pumilum, a taller plant, also with loverly red flowers.

[Tristan_He]

Hi John, nice little lily and not one I have tried for some reason (I'm very fond of species lilies and the turkscaps). However, I think L. pumilum and L. tenuifolium are the same thing - pumilum is the correct name, at least for the moment!

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-279815

http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=lilium+tenuifolium

Did you grow these from seed as well?

[johnstephen29]

Hi Tristan are they really the same plant? Is tenuifolium an old name then? I bought it with that name attached.

[johnstephen29]

Hi Tristan I've just answered my own question, I followed your links and found my answer, this is what happens when people use old names, that's if they knew it was an old name of course. I think though I'll keep then separate because of the way they behave, the pumilum is the taller plant and has bigger flowers then the other for some reason.

[Tony Willis]

Lilium bakerianum ssp aureum

[Maggi Young]

Lilium bakerianum ssp aureum

Pale and elegant!

[Tony Willis]

Lilium martagon ssp cattaniae,the flowers are very small and almost black.

[partisangardener]

I love this dark lily.
My strange lily from China is about to open any day. I can detect some reddish spots through the white of the bud. My camera cant.

[partisangardener]

This morning I looked at Lilium gloriosoides. It will be the thing. Getting pure white and with my naked eye I can see the red dots in the inner part. I try to catch it while it opens.


I never thought it would get that big. The bud is 15,5 cm long

[partisangardener]

This is no L.gloriosoides, i think.

[Maggi Young]

But a very beautiful photo, Axel!

[Dick Cheung]

This is no L.gloriosoides, i think.

It looks like a Lilium oriental hybrid.
Maybe be crossed by L. nobilissimum and L.auratum/L. speciosum.
It is pretty.