Lilium 2009

[Roma]

I see you've got rain in Kirrie too, Ian.  Super Lilium duchartrei.  Must release mine from their pot.I have 5 stems but only a single flower each.

[Lesley Cox]

Oh yes Ian, and Gote, your L. grayii are very fine. Superb in fact. Must look for a better seed source.

[gote]

Super picture Gote, a well grown plant, one thing about Lilium greyi it produces small bulbils so is easy to grow these on it takes time but worth the effort I remove some in Sept. I post Lilium duchartrei and Lilium pardalinum var? cheers Ian the Christie kind.

Thank you. It is more luck than skill I am afraid. I have never noticed any bulbils but have not looked for them. However, they would not work as pollinators anyway.
That is a really good and real duchartreii. I have never before seen anyone with such a clear umbel. Those I grow cannot make up their minds, Umbel or raceme. (and fewer flowers  )
Göte

[Maggi Young]

Those of you who are members, or, like me, lurk at the PBS site, may have seen this, but I had to mention it here.....Forumist Jim McKenney, a long-time lily show judge, has had his first best in show prize with one of his own stems..... see it here..... it is lovely....

http://jimmckenney.com/longwood_award_for_best_in_show.htm


 and read the story in the PBS pages: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2009-July/034277.html   or in Jim's blog : http://mcwort.blogspot.com/    for Sunday 12th July

Well done, Jim !

[Jim McKenney]

Thanks for the kind words, Maggi.

I would trade that show-winning stem (and the bulb which produced it) in a flash for one of Göte's Lilium grayi.  Lilium grayi did very well here for years, but it was lost in a garden accident.

It amuses me that this species, which grows wild only a few hundred miles south and west of my garden, grows so well in NW Europe but is considered extremely difficult here.

Ian mentioned bulbils for this species; I've never seen aerial stem bulbils with this species, but the bulbs of this species have short, stout, sometimes rounded, easily detached scales which will remind some of the rice grain bulbils of some western North American Fritillaria.

I've been away from the forum for weeks - wow! I've missed a lot. Some of you are obviously having a wonderful lily season.  The images have been terrific!

[ichristie]

Hi Jim all, yes indeed I am meaning that the mother bulb produces rice grains and sometimes bigger bulbils around this mother bulb it is these which I detach then pot up and wait sorry to confuse you but I do wonder  from others if they find lilium greyi easy it is not that easy here and it is suggested that bulbs have a virus. I think that often bulb growth is destroyed by high wind and heavy rain even hailstones which we have had here recently.  cheers Ian the Christie kind  Well done with your exhibit.

[gote]

I do not find grayii difficult - I am probably lucky to have the right biotope - It is very slow, however.
MIne are seed propagated so they are probably virus free.
Göte

[Tony Willis]

Lilium chalcedonicum in flower today

[Martin Baxendale]

Lilium chalcedonicum in flower today

Don't you just love that colour, Tony!         

One of my all-time favourite lilies.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I second that Tony !
Wonderful deep colour !

[Tony Willis]

This is its first time of flowering and I am very pleased with it. have never seen one in flower before

Martin your pollen is posted and I have fertlised mine with yours this morning

[Martin Baxendale]

Martin your pollen is posted and I have fertlised mine with yours this morning

Ooh, you are naughty!

[Paul T]

 

 

[gote]

This is a very busy time I hardly have time to look at the pictures even less i have time to upload but here we go.
A neighbour of mine used to have beautiful martagon albums one day they disappeared. Some years later I noticed Daffodils along the roadside and wondered who had dumped them This year I know what happened to the lilies They grow at the roadside dumped by someone wo did not appreciate them. here they are:

I also show a group and close up of hansonii. This is the one that you get by sowing hansonii seed. more yellow and more curly than th eold type.

Lilium cernuum, flowers for the first time for me. I am a little disappointed that the colour is so much martagon colour  - but it is graceful  indeed.
Cheers
Göte

[Ragged Robin]

A fantastic sight, Gote, thanks so much for posting the lilium at such a busy time - it is wonderful to see plants growing where they choose to even if they were dumped - shows how adaptable they are and now we can all enjoy them 

I think your Lilium cernuum is extremely graceful in flower and in bud, congratulations on its first flowering