Lilies: ...and while we tap our feet waiting for spring..., 0 by gemini_sage

gemini_sage wrote:
Lets see....the magic 8 ball says...lots more space for gardens at the new digs, and perfectly drained, black loamy soil.....and the unleashing of a lily fiend, LOL!

Anita, you know how they have those progressive dinners where you go to each persons house for the next course? If we could just do a traveling garden caravan kind of like that, all hands planting each others lilies with each stop! Of course stopping at every nursery along the way. Ah yes, we can dream, LOL. Your lilies will show beautifully there; I love the way the blooms are set off by a green background. I've got a lot of conifers in this yard that will be serving the same function.

I'm particularly excited about my "Sky Garden" where several of these babies are going. It's all blue, white, and yellow. All the yellow and white Asiatics and LAs I'm expecting are going there, as well as Regale album, Conca d'Or, Veranda, Hacienda, Casa Blanca, Aubade, Golden Splendour, and possibly Time Out if it doesn't have red spots (I can't recall). There is a pic somewhere on here (I think posted by magnolialover?) of all these varying heights of white and yellow OTs among shorter perennials that I've been obsessed with ever since! That is exactly the "look" I'm going for here.

On the other side of the house I'm using lots of pastels against the dark backdrop of conifers and graduating to stronger colors as the garden extends into the brighter, sunnier area. This is where the high holy Japanese hybrids will go, and my long coveted L.langkonense hybrids, Ariadne, Eurydice, Karen North, and Rosepoint Lace. All the pink, peach, coral, and salmon colors will be strewn through that area, including the OTs from Faraway (Socrates, Gluhwein, and Eudoxia) I'm so excited about.

In this pic I'm standing in the area where the pastels will go, looking toward where the more intense colors come into play. That grouping of conifers is screaming for some color. For spring I've planted 200 daffodils and 100 single late tulips down there.