Specialty Gardening: How I Started From Scratch, 3 by warriorswisdomkathy

warriorswisdomkathy wrote:
Sorry, I've been mia.....Holy cow, this has got to be the strangest garden year yet!!! More things should be blooming and many have already passed. Gosh Fruity, your flowers are just scrumpious. I didn't realize you had that many daylilies, wow!!!

Someone was asking about the lemon lily, it's Hemerocalis flava, my very favorite of all the daylilies. It's one of the few that have fragrance and it does smell lemony, and it is yummy. It is in fact one of the daylilies that all daylilies come from, the other is Hemerocalis fulva, the straight orange that is not fragrant. These are the species daylilies, it's amazing 50, 000 plants later alll the choices we have now days. Just amazing!!!!

I see your a lily lover also. Just another of my favorites, (and those cruddy four legged thingies I depise soooo!!). So far I only have one that has bloomed: Lilium pumilum, up to 18", tag says scarlet-red but is orange to me. Waiting to see if I get some other lilies this year or if the d*** get them, hoping it's me!!!!! I'm thinking my favorites are the Trumpet lilies, just love their fragrance, (Easter lily type). And the asiatics are the best at multipling, I love it when they make a patch. Next favs are the tiger lilies, and the 2nd best at multipling also, they develop bulbils in the leaf axils, fall to the ground and begin their life, pulling themselves down to where they need to be, and the stems (below ground) also have baby bulbs too, just like the Asiatics. I have orientals, love the fragrance but slow to multiply for me. And sooo many new one, the hybrids and crosses they have made over the years is amazing, the Oripets and L.A. Hybbrids are gorgeous.

pix1: Lilium pumilum, got at Denver Botanic Gardens plant sale.
pix2: Lilium formosa 'Lancer', grown from seed gotten from park seed, only 6-8", flowers are large compared to the size of the plant, and oooh soooo fragrant, last summer.
pix3: Lilium, I believe this is a L.A. Hybrid, can't remember which one at the moment, fragrant and a good multiplier, (at my daughter's garden last summer, later dug a few bulbs to bring to my garden, didn't think she would miss them). I got them from Gilbert wild and son, when they first came out.
pix4: Lilium asiatic, unkn variety, from a few years ago, kritters have been getting them for years, not sure where what color is now.
pix5: lilium, will have to look, just got from the Bot. G sale this spring. Hmmm, maybe I should leave them on the porch in their pots so they can bloom .

joy..is that Wisteria fragrant? Such a beautiful color, can't think I've ever seen one like that before, do you know what cultivar it is?

This message was edited Jun 18, 2012 12:48 PM