Lilium 2018

[Steve Garvie]

Many thanks Bjørnar.

Will there be any possibility of seed of N. basilissa this year?
I crave plants like:

https://www.the-genus-lilium.com/images/Lilium/n_basilissa02.jpg
                                    and
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=585.0 (Is this basilissa or something else?)

[Tony Willis]

Lilium bakerianum var aureum

[arisaema]

Will there be any possibility of seed of N. basilissa this year?

Hopefully, if we can locate it - and get to the location. China-Myanmar relations are a bit bad right now, and foreigners aren't really allowed. We were held for half an hour at a check-point heading back from Ega yesterday, while they looked through all our photos to satisfy themselves we weren't spies or missionaries 

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=585.0 (Is this basilissa or something else?)

That's just N. saluenensis, from Heipushan, I've offered seeds quite a few times in the past.

[arisaema]

Lilium bakerianum var aureum

That's really nice! Is there any chance I could get pictures of the inside of the flower and foliage?

[Steve Garvie]

Hopefully, if we can locate it - and get to the location. China-Myanmar relations are a bit bad right now, and foreigners aren't really allowed. We were held for half an hour at a check-point heading back from Ega yesterday, while they looked through all our photos to satisfy themselves we weren't spies or missionaries.

-You certainly risk being accused of spreading the Cult of the Lily. 

That's just N. saluenensis, from Heipushan, I've offered seeds quite a few times in the past.

-I hoped that was the case; I have some seedlings coming on.

[Tony Willis]

That's really nice! Is there any chance I could get pictures of the inside of the flower and foliage?

Sorry cannot help with this years flower. I have just got back from holiday and the flower was just at the end of its life and the foliage was lost in the heat/ drought whilst I was away.

However here is a picture from 2016 when in fact it was much more yellow

[Tony Willis]

Lilium bakerianum

[fleurbleue]

Special but very nice, Tony 

[Leena]

This is Nomocharis aperta which I have grown from Lily group seed ex seeds, sown 2014 and survived outside couple of bad winters. It is now flowering for the first time.

[Steve Garvie]

Some lilies from earlier this month.

Lilium mackliniae


Lilium mackliniae -dark form sometimes referred to as Lilium chitrangadae


Lilium nanum


Lilium oxypetalum var. insigne


Lilium rubellum -the delicate pink is best appreciated in shade.

[Rimmer de Vries]

Some aurelian seedlings blooming now

‘The Yeti’
Pointy Seedling
Martie and Freda’s Kinky Daughter
CK seedling
AM07/3155-29 seedling

[johnw]

Lilium martagon Rubrum with a fasciated flower bud in Ken's garden.  Those are all flower buds we think. Should be quite a bizarre sight.

johnw

Well it's opening now and needed to be staked.  Ken says it has close to 100 flowers coming on the fasciation alone. A bizarre sight.

johnw
16.6c & overcast

[Maggi Young]

Wow!  Never seen such a flower-filled fasciation.  I wonder if all the blooms will be able to open properly.  I'm a bit surprised it's got along as far as this.

[johnw]

It certainly appears all are progressing and will open normally.  We were sure they'd abort.

john

[Maggi Young]