lilium 2012

[Liz Mills]

Here's 2 more photos of my little lily which I hope will be good enough for one of you to identify with more confidence - hope the photos are good enough.
Also a photo of a Nomocharis which is one of the first to come into flower for me.  I've been told that most of the Nomocharis in Scotland have hybridised over the years and that all of them have been lumped into Nomocharis aperta.  But there seems to be lots and lots of variation and some of my 'spotty' ones look nothing like this one. 

[Gerard Oud]

I have no idea, but i am sure about the ones that are flowering over here right now.
They are Lilium martagon yellow form and smell like ancient perfume!

[ronm]

L.pumilum

Absolutely one of my favourite Lilium sp., but one which I find difficult to keep going as individuals for very long, maybe three seasons at most. So I always have lots of seedlings on the go to replace the adults as they disappear. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong with this species? I grow many other species Lilium, and the rest all do fine.

[Gerard Oud]

I would suggest  to take them out of the soil after each season and replant them on a place in the garden where the last 5 to 6 years no Lilliums have grown.
They are rather sensitive for all kinds of fungus.

[ronm]

Thanks very much for that advice Gerard. I will definitely do that this year.

[Gerard Oud]

You can check the condition of the bulbs better this way too. If one of the bulbs get sick it will infect the others and finally after 2 or 3 seasons they have all gone.

I have planted 2 weeks ago Lilium species Flore Pleno, with the warmth and lots of rain they are growing very fast now! Especially when you know they have been kept for 20 months at - 1,5 'celsius
I will post pics later.

[floricole]

L. canadense problem

I have some that have been sick this year, have grow only 8" tall and have very tiny leaf.
compare to the healty one any clue of the problem... virus,  disease

[Gerard Oud]

Could be virus, but have you checked the bulbs? If there are small brown spots all over the bulb they are suffering from the pile/rick? We call it Mijt, they are very small insects and only visible under a microscope.

[floricole]

Could be virus, but have you checked the bulbs? If there are small brown spots all over the bulb they are suffering from the pile/rick? We call it Mijt, they are very small insects and only visible under a microscope.

I will take a look for that, I have notice that the stem is porous, spoungy like

[mark smyth]

Could someone name this Lily? It was a gift many years as a tiny bulb from Hentry and Margaret Taylor who had grown it from seed.

[ArnoldT]

Mark:

Have a look.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/LiliumDauricumSection#dauricum

[Susan Band]

That reminds me.
For the first year some of Margaret and Hendry's Lilium macklinae seedlings are flowering. They were from some of their own crosses between the newly introduced dark form and some originals. Here is one flowering now, a bit later than the others. Lovely shading on the inside of the flower.
Susan

[mark smyth]

thanks Arnold

[Liz Mills]

Susan, thanks for showing the Taylor hybrids in flower.  I've got some seedlings of these but not at flowering size yet so it's something to look forward to.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Not lilium, but Cardiocrinum giganteum in full glory.  They are sweetly scented and really wow the neighbors.