Lilium 2011

[ashley]

Lilium grayi is very elegant! What a shape and colour!

Rather stunning, isn't it
Many other beauties here too.

[Pete Clarke]

Many thanks Göte. I think you are right about it being Lilium akkusianum. Fits the decription given in the web link you provided.

[johnw]

A nice solid red grayii there Brian. Mine have a touch of orange which I find a bit strange.

johnw

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks chaps, I was really pleased with the colour John, now have to site it in the garden.

[pehe]

Lillium is not my strong side, but I succeed with this hydride, which I got from my dads garden where it has been growing for half a century. Can anyone put a name on it?

Poul

[Otto Fauser]

Brian , your beautyful dark red L. grayi is so much nicer than the hybrid between it and canadense growing in my garden .
          and Pascal your L . bakerianum is exquisite ! I lily I have not seen before . Does it set seed ?
 

[Hakone]

Lilium callosum

[Pascal B]

Pascal your L . bakerianum is exquisite ! I lily I have not seen before . Does it set seed ?
 

Otto, I had only one flower so I selfed it and keep my fingers crossed. The remaining pollen of it and the delavayi form I have send to Tony Willis so he can try pollinating his delavayi  plant (which is slightly later than mine). I did not want to cross the yellow-brown with the pink but next year if anyone else has the roseum form too I can send the pollen to that person to see if seeds can be produced to grow it on a larger scale. I was looking for the roseum form of bakerianum but as it turns out it was in a batch of an unflowered import from China from 2 years ago.

[fermi de Sousa]

Lillium is not my strong side, but I succeed with this hydride, which I got from my dads garden where it has been growing for half a century. Can anyone put a name on it?

Poul

Hi Poul,
it may be one of the "Mid-Century" hybrids raised by Jan de Graafe in the USA in the 1950s.
cheers
fermi

[gote]

Lillium is not my strong side, but I succeed with this hydride, which I got from my dads garden where it has been growing for half a century. Can anyone put a name on it?

Poul

Hi Poul,
it may be one of the "Mid-Century" hybrids raised by Jan de Graafe in the USA in the 1950s.
cheers
fermi

I agree but it is not one I have grown meaning that I can say what it is not. If you remind me privately a few times I might remember to look for it among old catalogs and other literature.
Göte

[Susan Band]

Lilium rubescens grown from Ron Ratko seed. Pity he isn't collecting anymore. Hopefully I will be able to collect some seed from this plant.
Susan

[fleurbleue]

A very nice lilium Susan, hope I'll may order one from your nursery soon... 

[pehe]

Thank you Fermi and Göte!

Poul

[Boyed]

Poul,

Your lily is common in our country too. It is a very old cultivar, indeed, or maybee species. I grow it as lilium dauricum, but I am not sure about correct naming.

Today we went to the country house, my lilium szovitsianum were in full bloom and at its best. I thought I should share more pictures of it.

[Boyed]

Can anybody help me with identification of virus mosaic symptoms on Asiatic lilies?
I am very keen in identifying virus symptoms on oriental and other lilies, which have wide leaves. But I've never seen how virus looks in Asiatic lilies, which have narrow leaves. I grow around 35 lily species and cultivars, taking a special and individual care of them and so far I didn't have problems with virus. I have seen virused oriental lilies in my colleagues garden, who grows lilies for cutting.

Last year I got some Soviet-bred Asiatic lilies from Siberia and one cultivar looks very suspicious. At the beginning it looked .O. K., but later the leavesbecame very strange (darker green spots on general green ground with some yellowish tones). I don't know if it is virus or not. For virus identification, as a rule I observe younger upper leaves, as virus symptoms are better seen on younger leaves. But in this case, it is different: young leaves look O.K., but in a period of time they turn yellowish with darker spots. maybee Luit can help me, showing this pictures to the lily specialists?