Lilies: So I got this Casa Blanca lookin' thing . . . ., 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Lefty, I have checked a pic of mine and yes, L. Casablanca does have small pincers! It must have L. speciosum blood, no wonder it is such a fine flower! (Keeping a watchful eye on that from now ~ could this be something endemic to my location?)

Now you have got me drooling again over the Gloriowhatsits, but sadly it is not able to thrill us again this year. The dreadfully cold weather, combined with it's pot sitting under an open window in the greenhouse getting the constant rain we had, led to it's demise. The end of the stem rotted off!

I had 3 flower stems of L. nepalense each with a single flower, but they were so poor this year with the cold and rain, plus mole activity, that I just couldn't get excited over them. They were small, and battered with rain, but with some days at only 12C who can blame them. I felt small and battered too!

I cropped off a Casablanca bud for you,