Lilium 2010

[Lesley Cox]

The colour of 'Notschka' is superb Gote, a wonderful, thick red. and I really like L. pyrophilum, such elegance as Robin says.

does anyone have a picture of L. polyphyllum please? I have some seed just up yesterday from a Nov 08 sowing.

[Maggi Young]

I can help with that request, Lesley....
At this link:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3633.msg102241#msg102241

John Weagle shows his Lillium polyphyllum , it is picture DSCN9297.

And back here, in the thread Lilium and allies (Cardiocrinum. Notholirion and Nomocharis) July 2008
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1996.msg50993#msg50993  where such matters were being discussed  I had news of photos of this lovely lily, some from SRGC notables, Henry and Margaret Taylor, who had supplied  photos to this website:
http://www.the-genus-lilium.com/polyphyllum.htm

 Enjoy!

 

 

[Lesley Cox]

Ah, my hero(ine.) Thanks as always Maggi. What a lovely thing it is.

[Tony Willis]

 Lesley

when Henry and Margaret came to talk to our group I won a packet of their Lilium polyphyllum seeds in a raffle.

They are now growing well although they are still perhaps a couple of years of flowering.

As they are not on the web I got their address from Maggi and wrote to them for details.



Here is their reply.

[Lesley Cox]

Thanks for that Tony. What a good response to your winning that raffle. A very useful letter to have with sound advice. (I won a kilo of pork sausages once. Not at an alpine meeting though. )

[Pascal B]

In flower today, the big trumpet of Lilium sargentiae. Due to the strong wind in Holland the pollen is everywhere inside the flower.....

Could anybody tell me how to treat the stem bulbils at the end of the seaon so I can increase the number in my garden of this species?

[Boyed]

Göte,

'Notschka' is very popular and loved variety in Russia and CIS countries. I was very surprised to see you grow it. It is usually spelled as 'Noczka'. 

For some very favourite lilies I practice pot culture (10-12 litre pot for a bulb) and keep them in long open balcony protected from  rains. In the balcony lilies get mild sunlight. I repot and divide my bulbs every other 3 years, use leafy soil collected under trees (upper 5 cm soil level, never use fertilisers). This culture provides maximum performance. For example, my oriental lilium 'Casa Blanca" gets 2 metre high and flowers tremendously. Some photos.

[Martin Baxendale]

In flower today, the big trumpet of Lilium sargentiae. Due to the strong wind in Holland the pollen is everywhere inside the flower.....

Could anybody tell me how to treat the stem bulbils at the end of the seaon so I can increase the number in my garden of this species?

When the bulbils start to come away from the stem easily, without any force (i.e. about to drop off) then you simply remove them and pot up (in gritty well-drained compost, planted just below the surface or with the tips just showing above the surface of the compost. Keep just moist enough to prevent the bulbils shrivelling until leaf growth starts in the Spring.

[ArnoldT]

Pascal:

I put all the stem bulbils in barely moist peat, coir or potting soil and place in a zip lock bag in  the fridge for the winter months.

 In Spring I place them on the surface of a light well draining potting soil in filtered light until they grow their first leaf then increase the light.  You may see roots attached to the bulbils as you removed them from the leaf axils.

[Pascal B]

Martin, Arnold, thanks for the advice. Because it is flowering this late in the year I doubt I will be able to get any seedpods to mature and I would love to get more of these big trumpets so the bulbils probably will be the only way I can increase it. I have another bulbil producing Chinese Lilium in bud (2 weeks away from flowering) which I am hoping is L. sulphureum but the same thing applies to that one.

[gote]

Göte,
'Notschka' is very popular and loved variety in Russia and CIS countries. I was very surprised to see you grow it. It is usually spelled as 'Noczka'. 

Thank you for giving the correct spelling. As I wrote, I got it from someone who pretended that it were something else.
I am not surprised that it is popular. It has a vivid colour, big flowers and is very easy to grow - at least in my climate. Furthermore it sets bulbils in the same rate as lancifolium. A superb garden plant really.
Göte

[4moreaction]

Now I turn to You here in SRGS again... to inquire once more if there are ANY kind soul, who could spare some seeds of Lilium martagón var. daugava.... since at the moment I'm not able to use creditcard to make inquiries from commercial sources! I'm mostly interested in this ssp. since it's capability to germinate immediately!!   Please...will You help me!!! Yours: Matti

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hello Everybody,
Here are pics of 2 lilies which flowered last spring. I'm not sure of their identity but they were sold as HANSONII and LANKONGENSE. And having seen recent posts there are reasons for us to misidentify the latter.

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Ooops! I forgot the pics...sorry!

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

...and lilium HANSONII...