Bulbs: My bulb project, Before picture #1, 1 by SteveIndy

SteveIndy wrote:
Nancy, late spring, yes; early fall, likely not. One disadvantage to where we live is that EVERYthing blooms about a month earlier than what our counterparts experience up north, and most of the bloomtimes you se in the catalogues refer to a zone 5 garden - so I always subtract a month roughly from that.

The latest I have had any lily bloom here is early August and then just very few. The high heat is hard on many of them so even if they do bloom then they don't look great. However, I do get wonderful and heavy bloom from late April/early may through all of june and even the first week or so ofJuly. Asiatics/Easter lilies first, then LA's, then trumpets, then OT's and Orientals (I have just a few) last. There is also overlap between groups depending on particular variety.

Below are examples of the garden at various points - these are all from my established bed and I will try to get from a similar angle, so these have all been in the ground at least two seasons and are not new plantings.

This is from May 23, 2008 (planted fall 2007)