Lilium 2010

[arisaema]

Lilium amoenum, L. leucanthum, L. majoense and (at last!) L. fargesii.

[Lesley Cox]

Beautiful species Arisaema. I have just a single bulb of majoense but it is OK and I live in hope of a flower quite soon.

[Ragged Robin]

Lilium auratum in flower at the moment. Of-sets from a bulb purchased a few years ago from Wisley

A really lovely lily Tony - how long is a few years to flower from offsets?  Is it highly scented?

[Ragged Robin]

Lilium amoenum, L. leucanthum, L. majoense and (at last!) L. fargesii.

A glorious collection in your garden, Arisaema, L. majoense has wonderful rich contrasting colours...by the way can you enlighten me as to what 'fargesii' actually means?  I have tried to find out on the web and failed - is it something to do with scent or form?

[Tony Willis]

Robin

try this site

www.plantexplorers.com/explorers/biographies/french-missionaries/pere-paul-guillaume-farges.htm

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Tony, really interesting to read about the French Botanist/Naturalist & seed collector Pčre Farges and to see where the name  'fargesii' came from....my Mother nurtured a rhododendron she called fargesii which was a lovely ancient tree that finally expired - I attempted to air layer a stem in moss to no avail - and not even Hilliers could tell us what the Rhodendron actually was. 

[Giles]

Rhododendron oreodoxa var. fargesii.
It's commercially available

[Ragged Robin]

Rhododendron oreodoxa var. fargesii.
It's commercially available

My goodness Giles, it was incredibly similar to your suggestion from memory and had the same shaped leaves and bell flower - I must dig out and old photo I took years ago, thanks.

[Giles]

Lilium speciosum rubrum
Lilium rosthornii

[Maggi Young]

Pretty lily flowers, Giles... and a natty piece of multi-tasking.... admiring blooms, holding flower for  taking photo, carrot ready to munch to keep strength up... most impressive! 

[Giles]

Ooops! (I hadn't noticed  )

[gote]

Lilium amoenum, L. leucanthum, L. majoense and (at last!) L. fargesii.

I must come to Norway and look for myself how you do it.
I have bad success with all four.
These are really superb.
Göte

[Giles]

Lilium pyrophilum.
This will be my last.

[Ragged Robin]

A really elegant lily Giles, lovely colour, spotting and anther display - sorry it is your last, you've shown some wonderful specimens 

[gote]

I once bought a "Chinese Lily" from a gentleman who said he got it from someone who had been visiting Nepal (Or was it Bhutan)
It turned out to be a Russian hybrid called 'Notschka' A very easy one with bulbils like lancifolium and a colour that does not show up well in photos. 

My "true tsingtauense" flowers again. The pedicels have an unusual shape and the flowers are more upright than the "tsingtauense" I grow since many years. It is also much smaller and later. However, I can trace a little of the assymetry in the flower.

I got my yellow concolor from the wrong seed envelope. Kalle in Denmark got the same - we are both very happy about the mistake.

This is what I believe is a typical lankongense. Itis appearing in many places but does not flower much - yet 

Cheers
Göte

PS The lateness of these pics is because we had all four grandchildren visiting us.