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Martin Baxendale

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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #45 on: June 10, 2011, 01:51:51 PM »
Very nice, Tony. I was looking at their website and am very tempted by their martagons, including the two you bought. L. m. albiflorum looks very good. Would you say Red Russian is distinctive enough to be worth having? Looks a bit like cattaniae but with a pale reverse. I'm not saying it doesn't look good in your photo, just wondering what your opinion of it 'in the flesh' is compared to cattaniae.

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a couple of pictures below,sorry they are not great but I think they illustrate the differences. The left flower is what I call cattaniae which is grown from scales I collected in N. Greece some years ago .It is a very dark small flowered plant.



Although it is a very nice plant there is no similarity with Red Russia which is as you can see different in both form and colour. The beauty of the latter is in my view the pale reverse which as the flower does not re-curve as tightly as cattaniae can be seen and makes the flowers appear to glow.

The reason I mentioned where I purchased them is that they came as really fine bulbs.

Tony, thanks for the individual flower pics and your description of the differences. That's very helpful. If the segments don't recurve strongly like cattaniae, and the pale outers remain fully on view, then that (along with the paler centre) will give Red Russian a much different look. Good also to know that they're a good supplier. Just hope I can afford all those that I feel tempted by (probably not  :-\)
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #46 on: June 12, 2011, 03:46:41 PM »
Two lilies in flower here this morning.

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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #47 on: June 12, 2011, 06:29:59 PM »
Flowering in my garden today:

Lilium pyrenaicum

Lilium martagon - this form was grown from seed collected on the lower slopes of Mount Vermion by the AGS MESE trip back in 99 and called by the collecting team 'Naoussa Boutari' - looks pretty close to var cattaniae.
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #48 on: June 13, 2011, 09:30:59 AM »
Dave the martagon is very nice and I would say the same as mine from Mt Falakro which is only a short distance away and which I think is var cattaniae. I have not found Lilium martagon on Vermion but grow L. chalcedonicum from there where it grows in some quantity. Seems a little strange to give it a name when it is the standard form across the area.
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #49 on: June 13, 2011, 06:00:01 PM »
Lilium duchartrei and what I believe to be the pink form of bakerianum, a plant I wanted for a long time but apparantly already had...., unless someone tells me it is not... :-\

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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #50 on: June 13, 2011, 07:59:10 PM »



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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #51 on: June 13, 2011, 08:01:58 PM »
I know lilies are naturally photogenic.... but the photos here are especially lovely.... thanks everyone!
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #52 on: June 13, 2011, 10:12:45 PM »
Lily 1 -4, I thought I would ask again this year if anyone has any idea as to the name of this lovely lily.
Various names were suggested last year but none seemed to fit when I read up further on them.
A key feature is the very hairy tips to the buds - petals.
Lilium svovitsianum.
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #53 on: June 14, 2011, 03:59:04 AM »
I would have said a lovely form of Lilium candidum.
Alberto Castillo, in south America, near buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #54 on: June 14, 2011, 12:22:30 PM »
Lily 1 -4, I thought I would ask again this year if anyone has any idea as to the name of this lovely lily.
Various names were suggested last year but none seemed to fit when I read up further on them.
A key feature is the very hairy tips to the buds - petals.
Lilium svovitsianum.
Please send a pic showing all of the plant. I should guess that it is one of the caucasians. Kesselringianum or one of the allies. It seems fairly likely that it is akkusianum which is hairy and has these elongates basal parts of the flowers.
I suggest a visit to http://www.the-genus-lilium.com/main.htm for more info.
Göte.
  
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #55 on: June 14, 2011, 04:04:54 PM »
two more lilies in flower at the moment

Lilium martagon ssp cattaniae from Mt Falakro in NE Greece

Lilium polyphyllum from seed collected by Margaret and Henry Taylor
Chorley, Lancashire zone 8b

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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #56 on: June 14, 2011, 07:13:45 PM »
Lilium szovitsianum in my country garden
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #57 on: June 14, 2011, 07:44:36 PM »
two more lilies in flower at the moment

Lilium martagon ssp cattaniae from Mt Falakro in NE Greece

Lilium polyphyllum from seed collected by Margaret and Henry Taylor
Lovely,lovely martagon Tony.
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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #58 on: June 14, 2011, 07:58:59 PM »
A nice surprise when we arrived home yesterday, thanks to a kind forumist, Lilium grayi.
Brian Ellis, Brooke, Norfolk UK. altitude 30m Mintemp -8C

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Re: Lilium 2011
« Reply #59 on: June 14, 2011, 08:04:29 PM »
Brian,

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