Lilium 2017

[johnw]

Yes it was a selection made by Mike & Polly Stone and was said to come true from seed.  The source was AGS96-3878-GY1, sown 2/1/97. Not sure who the donor was.

john

[Maggi Young]

From Alan Elliott at RBGE -  "S Korean Lilium GKLY 30 flowering in woodland @ TheBotanics. Verified as L. distichium, collected as L. tsingtauense, foliage v. like Paris

[ArnoldT]

Here's a first time flower Lilium sargentiae.

Grown from stem bulbils from a number of sources.

Some may be from an original bulb from China.

[Thorkild Godsk]

Lilium blooming in the garden now
1: Lilium duchartrei
2: Lilium canadense was rubrum
3: Lilium Longong
4: Lilium canadense
Thorkild DK.

[Maggi Young]

Giles has just  been quicker than I in posting a review of a super new book, "The lily species and their bulbs" by fellow forumist, Pontus Wallsten - read Giles' opinion and mine,  here :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=248.msg379512#msg379512

[Steve Garvie]

Lilium nepalense -in a smirr.


Lilium formosanum


Lilium kelloggii


Lilium rubescens -previously known as Lilium washingtonianum var. purpurascens. The ageing flowers take on a pinkish-purple hue.



Lilium canadense Orange form

[Carolyn]

Super lilies, Steve. Do you grow L. nepalense outside all year? I lost mine in 2010 in the hard winter. I now have a potful of seedlings which are 2 or 3 years old and wonder whether to risk some outside.

[Steve Garvie]

Carolyn I grow nepalense outside in a raised bed situated near the house by a stone built garage. The microclimate here is that wee bit warmer than the open garden and supports some borderline hardy dwarf rhoddies, Asteranthera ovata and Philesia magellanica. This area was planted up just after the bad winter of 2010. Nepalense grows much better when set free. 

[Carolyn]

Thanks, that's useful

[brianw]

Not sure if this should be under Lilium or Weather.
After many hot sunny days when I had trouble keeping my L. davidii anything approaching upright the top of one finally bent over in recent heavy rains, and had to be cut off.

Makes a good cut flower after removing just a few spent flowers. The stem left is still taller than me, ~6'. Although the group leans and has to be "restrained" it seems to be the trees ~20 yards away that effect it more than the house which is much closer. Rarely gets lily beetles, unlike others in the open garden.

[Maggi Young]

Current weather with so much wind is making things tricky for a lot of plants - at least your lily makes a ready-made flower-arrangement, Brian!

[Rick R.]

That looks like Lilium henryi to me...

[ruweiss]

Lilium leichtlinii and L. henryi:

[Maggi Young]

That looks like Lilium henryi to me...

BrianW  - I think Rick is correct. 

[brianw]

Looks like it to me too now. I have grown both at various times.