Lilies: Have you EVER?, 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
You're all gonna hate me. I have got one, but it doesn't have the heavy colouring and flocking like that. Nor do the leaves look like that, they are more like normal leaves. It is very tall and has 8 buds on now I think, not yet opened. I've had it a few years, got it from de Jagers when they were around, they had a few species, I wish I'd got more species now but these people just go when you don't know it.

The bulb was naturally very small, it's first year it just grew a small stem about 1" tall, I told them and they gave me the credit at nearly £8. It took a couple of years or three to flower and this is it's 3rd flowering. I was a bit disappointed as it didn't look as glamorous as the pic, bu tit may improve. I keep it in a greenhouse, it's nearly touching the tallest part of the roof. I didn't get the flowers last year, it had buds but strong winds whipped in and battered it to death, some glass panes had popped out and it got it's stem bent.

I've only got a pic showing some of the stem, but I suppose the leaves do look a bit like those above, except I think they are a bit too green. Its the stem at the back, of course.

Leftwood, I have thought of buying from Chen Yi but it seems a bit complicated, how did you go about it? Was the carriage reasonable, some sellers on ebay from China seem to charge a lot.