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2009 Lily Blooms #10 and the fireworks continue!
This is the front yard were they are planted.
NYR...Beautious!!!!!...I was going to d-mail you to see where you went. You hadn't posted (unless I missed it) recently and we are all (at least I was) waiting to see your lilies. All is gorgioso!
The Queen Strain is a bunch of related oriental lilies that she has not named, but have a similar look. They are lovely spotted beauties. I have found them to hold up quite well, in various parts of my yard. Many of the Queens have been named and have the name Queen in them. Not sure if Buggy Crazy is still listing the Unamed Queen Strain Lilies. She did one year. But if not, she still has a lot of lovely named Queens to choose from!
Love those rich colors in Alaska, Chocolate! And the mass blooms in NY
And just becasue it's a NOID, doesn't make it any less beautiful. Love them mainiac!
Ticker....we need more pictures from you! ^_^
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You've all done such a wonderful job I just don't know where to start! What a fabulous selection of lilies we have here. And I am jealous of everyone's cool temperatures that have allowed perfect blooms with vibrant colors. And pixie is still on Asiatics here in late July! LOL Tracey, I knew you had a lot of lilies but didn't know it was this many. Glad you're so meticulous about labeling. Again, beautiful, everyone!
Heck Steve, my gardens are only just now starting to flower.....I mean even the veggies.
We have had a cool extremely rainy summer.(over 13 " of rain in less than 30 days).
Brocolli & lettuce do well in this weather....Watermelon do NOT. Everything is opening slowly.....even Ramona is a head of me!! lol
Chocolatemoose that picture of Salmon Star is stunning.....pictures like that is what makes me buy more bulbs. ^_^ Love that 'Red Out' too!!
NYR your lilies are beautiful!!
pixie, that gold one from the school fund raiser is such a deep, rich gold color- gorgeous! Any idea of the name?
No idea, it came as a bag of mixed bulbs. It said they would be red, orange and yellow.
Got the B&D calalog yesterday and Salmon Star is calling me. Like Steve, not much lily action yere, except the potted ones which haven't opened yet.
Got B&D yesterday too...had to put my bib on.
'Suncrest'?
'Cecil'?? and friend.
Looking down one side of the dog's fence......Mostly 'Centerfold' in bloom, some 'White Pixels'. The dark colored buds in the middle are 'Landini' and they are taking their sweet time opening this year!!!!!
'Sunny Crown'
'Pollyanna' or 'Pisa"???
Clapping hands here.'Bonbini' buds!!
Is this 'Cecil' or something else? I got it in a co-op.
adore pollyana or pisa.
lOving 'Sunny Crown' and just wait until you see your 'Bonbini' :) Looking good there Pixie
Thank you both!
I finally got a label maker that takes laminated tape with extra adhesive. It doesn't fade...a friend gave me a plant with one of these tape type markers 14 months ago. I can read it today as well as I could a year ago, so I bought myself one!! Maybe next year i'll actually be able to read the tag when the flowers are in bloom!
Keeper of the lilies is sleeping on the job!
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3 lilies and a Rudbeckia. Arabian Red, Excelsior, and Black Beauty.
Black Beauty in Rudbeckia.
Black Beauty colony from above.
Sphinx moth and Scheherazade.
jmorth, What a great shot!
Send some of that rain my way please. We are seven plus inches below normal!
Same here... I'll take some rain!!
Pixie ~ how tall is your Cecil? Maybe Purple Reign?
jmorth ~ that is a BIG bunch of Black Beauties!
Please come and take all the rain you want!!! I just can't figure out how to send it to you.
It's about 3ft tall . Purple Reign seems really purple with white. This is exactly as the picture shows.
Same here...we are expecting 2-4" more tonight & tomorrow!
Is that Purple Reign or Purple Rain? Is there a difference?
I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUR RAIN!!! UGH!!!
I know, but it's coming again.
It's 'Reign' that I'm talking about and it opens flat. Here's 'Rain' http://www.lilyregister.com/register/details.php?id=5298
Cecil, which is more bowl shaped
AHH the one I posted as 'Suncrest' w/a? is actually Cecil?? That would make sense as they are near each other.
Not necesarily, they have very similar coloring.
I'm so confused! lol
magnolialover - Thank you for explaining about the Queen Strain. The only spotted Oriental lilies I have are the mixed spotted ones I got last year and that I posted those pictures of. I find that I really like the spotted look and want some more. I will look at buggycrazies spotted orientals and see if I can manage to find something :-))
Here are soome more views of the mixed spotted oriental lilies in my front yard.
i'm in love!
Chocolatemoose- I have been busy with my daylilies which have been blooming now. But also many of the new trumpets and hybreds have been blooming for me. Not too much of a show yet as the bulbs are new so only afew blooms. But the scent, the scent is wonderful! And each smells slightly different. If the air is still I can smell them all over the yard! I love it.