Honey Bear
2009 LILY BLOOMS #6
Thank you for your comments. I will probably move those that are near the driveway;. They have mostly bloomed and I have several places to put them. I would hate to lose any of them. I will move them to some place that gets some sun but not the heat from the concrete.
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Oooh, Andrew, is that curly orange lily one of the ones you hybridized?
Yes Lolli Pop x Viva
Smashing, intercessor!!
Did you see the thread Mainiac started about hybridizers wanted? :) It would seem that is right up your lily stem. :)
I just did. I think they look nice, not sure anyone would want to buy them though...
Well, you might find out that someone would. :)
I really like the reverse on the LolliPop x Viva siblings. It is so fun to go out in the garden to see something new open up ^_^
Last shot for tonight. Sorry to you dial-uppers for the large pics...
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That curly orange is very cool!!
Rita...I like the color on yours too...do you know it's name?
Yikes, that last bed shot is stunning. As for the curley orange sherbert looking one with the white reverse, I just stopped when I opened up the picture and stared. Can't believe how striking is it. Just Wonderful!!!!
Nanny- Sorry is a NO ID. The strange thing is that I am having things bloom this year in the lily beds (between the roses) that I don't remember ever seeing before. But I guess I must have planted it as how else would it get there LOL.
Go for it Andrew ~ I'd buy that in a heartbeat!!
I'd purchase immediately.
Far too many incredible new pix to comment, but have to agree that that last landscape shot of intercessor's in absolutely gorgeous. Want to look at it again and again.
Diann said it's a bumper crop year, and it does look that way for her and others, but not here. The only new blooms I've got are Ariadne and Karen North, neither of which have I gotten a good photo of, and LA Fangio, which has come back from the dead. I dug up the bulbs and gave them to a friend a couple of years ago. I'm sorry I did let it go, 'cause the color on this baby is really pleasing to me now. Funny how the sensibility is constantly changing.
Originally got two pots of Fangio some years ago from Craig Bergmann's nursery up near WI.... he's a local landscape designer who for a while had the most sublime nursery/garden center, but no more, sadly. Just felt like reminiscing... maybe some of you around here got to his place? It seemed an interminable drive, and my heart pounded the whole way.
By the way, it's interesting to me that Ariadne has withstood this swampy spring where Eurydice and Ann North, for two, have not.
That first orange curly one of yours, Andrew, excellent color genes. Most excellent, I'd say. I think everyone here knows I am a picky man, but when the sepals are so much smaller than the petals, that's a turn off for me.
Andrew, if you ever sell Lolli Pop x Viva...im in for 5 please!! Just beautiful!!!!
(Don't want to sound greedy...i'll settle for ONE)
Wow, what awesome lilies everyone, and Andrew, your crosses are awesome.
Pixie- Sooo sorry to have missed your birthday. Hope it was the best ever!
Intercessor & Moby- Stunning garden shots! Love that cross!
You can make it up to me for being late by getting a bulb of Andrews beautiful orange creation for me!! LOL
How's Matt? Good I hope, give him a hug 4 me!
So many glorious blooms everybody!
Andrew, your curly orange is FANTASTIC!! The touch of white on the back sides and throat make it glow. Love the long shot of that bed too!
The OTs are cranking out new blooms every day here now, and heady aroma is wafting on the breeze from every direction! I'm loving these 'Red Dutch' with this daylily- their colors are sort of a reverse of each other.
Beautiful combo! My 2 favorite addictions side by side. ^_^
Pixie- Matt is good. Thanks for asking. And your son, how is he doing?
Sorry I can't help with your request for the orange you desire. But here is Buenos Aires, I have enough to share!
intercessor, I think your lilies are wonderful!!! I would buy them.
Debbie
Justin is doing pretty good, would like more sun so we could go out more often. The fronts that bring in the rain mess with t he air pressure ect. which seems to make his seizures more frequent. Need to look into weather/seizures relations and see if they have ever done a study on it.
Sorry to get OT ....back to lilies! Your 'Buenos Airies' is lovely, how tall?
Elegant Lady is blooming her fool head off all by herself here. Other lilies should be opening soon .......hopefully!
Sorry to hear about the seizures. I do believe the weather is a factor.
Buenos Aires is about 30" for me.
Is Buenos Aires an LA lily?
I just went back and looked at your pic again and is it me or does B. Airies have a slight lavender-purple hue to it???
The more I look the more I like! ^_^
Buenos Aires is supposed to be an Oriental, but the foliage doesn't look right. The color is a deep rose.
Here's a lilium candidum to keep Tracey's company.
Crymsyn - a dwarf semi-double Oriental.
closer up
A potfull of the dwarf Asiatic - Matrix.
Matrix with a Blood Lily
jmorth, looks like your Cymsyn tried to double. Last year mine was fully double I thought it even looked triple!
Here is my Cymsyn from last year, not even close to blooming yet this year.
lilyfan, some of the blooms I took pics of today looked more complicated, I'll post later.
Here's a few more from my garden. Finally got a bloom from pardalinum! Last year they only grew a foot or two and then died back.
Here's Electric in its first year here - and electric it is.
