Here is another charmer that is very difficult to photograph. It is Judith Freeman's 'Antique Lace'. The blossoms are slightly smaller than 'Rosepoint Lace' and more down facing, but they have a wonderful peachy blush and a light, sweet fragrance. It is not photogenic. In person, however, I could stare at it all day long! Also included in the photo are borage seedlings and an Allium christophii seed head.
Love the spent alliums with lilies.
This is my Peach Pixie just opened,planted in April. I am not sure its the right lable
second image is from the website
ooops
Here's an interesting discussion on Peach Pixie
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/lily/msg0618424717664.html
I just went to the website and believe I got Golden Pixie instead. Ahhh well I needed to move those anyway.
Always my luck with co-ops.
Thanks for the nice comments Joann and polly. Joann, love your colorful blooms. It's unfortunate when you don't get what you order from the co-ops.
jmorth, you have a lovely selection of lilies, and nice blooms.
Ispahan, I would love to be a butterfly flitting around your garden, the scent must be amazing. Your lilies clearly love where they're planted.
Keep posting those blooms everyone. Annette
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Tiny Skyline with Coreopsis Helios
Border Asiatic Tint Snowflake with Heuchera
Lily Lollipop
Lilies in the border today.
Champagne and Skyfire
Lovely contrast
Thanks. Both were from Buggy.
It really is beautiful. For whatever reason my Champagnes bloomed stunningly for one season, and then disappeared. It's nice to see yours.
Here is a single bloom of 'Karen North' that opened on Tuesday morning, disheveled though she may be from a rough experience. I had to have some work done on my back porch and a construction accident flattened my three stems of this cultivar. Sigh. I now have them propped up with bamboo stakes. The base of the stems was luckily not broken.
In the background can also be seen some buds from the exquisite 'Antique Lace'.
I plan on putting in even more bulbs of Lilium lankongense hybrids this fall. Even though the first year stems have been short (around two feet tall) and sparse with blooms, they are so lovely that I would like to try to get them established in other parts of my garden as well.
Oddly enough, 'Ariadne', 'Peach Lace' and 'Eurydice' failed to produce any viable buds this year. All of them sent up stems which were either void of buds in the first place or which aborted their developing buds. Hopefully they are just settling in and getting ready to produce a nice show for next season!
Those are beautiful
Ladylike with Euphorbia Bonfire
Bloodtiger and Yellow Green
Ladylike again with nepeta
Dimension is blooming too
Here is an updated photo of my poor, smashed 'Karen North' stems. Even after being completely bent and flattened they are still managing to open all of their buds.
In one of my orders to The Lily Garden last fall, Judith included two bulbs of 'Yellow Whoppers' as a bonus. So far, this is a surprisingly lovely and robust Asiatic, standing tall at three feet in its first season. First picture is from earlier this morning showing a bud just opening and the second picture was taken an hour ago to show the fully open bloom. I like this cultivar much more than I expected!
The last photo I have for today is a mystery lily that was purchased from B&D Lilies as the LO hybrid 'El Condor'. From a group of six bulbs, what came up were 5 stems of what is probably 'El Condor' (still forming buds and standing nearly six feet tall!) and one stem of this beauty that appears to be a yellow LA lily. It is four feet tall in its first season, has a pyramid of nearly 20 buds, and produces giant saturated yellow blooms with a nice, sweet fragrance. Does anyone recognize it? Whatever it is, I love it!
UPDATE: I sent this photo to B & D Lilies explaining what had happened. Bob identified it right away as the LA hybrid 'Dazzler'. I like it so much I might order more for fall planting!
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LadyLike and euphorbia bonfire
Dazzler is very pretty!!
Center Fold has bloomed here....lots just ready. Will probably bloom next week while we are gone! :(
Thats about the state we are in,a few blooms here and there but no big display.
For all my touting Liquid Fence the deer have eaten the buds off Saharazaads and Casablanca.
Guess I missed a spot.
Oh wow what a shame about that...the deer here have pruned my tomato plants, but luckily have stayed away from the lilies and daylilies...at least so far!
Centerfold reminds me of an old favorite - one of my first lilies: Artistic.
You tell those guys to hold on till you get back!
Mine are beginning.What a relief.Some are different from last year but I expect next year will be better
Loreto and Grafitti
I've tried to ID my lilies. Please let me know if anyone has corrections.
1. Angela North
2. Beaudadiois
3. Cupid's Gift
4. Forever Susan
5. Lilium tsingtanense
1. Lollypop
2. Loreto
3. Matrix
4. Mount Duckling
5. Night Flyer
1. Orange Electric
2. Orange Pixie
3. Peach Lace
4. Pearl Jennifer (Correction this lily is Cheerful from Buggy)
5. Pear Justine
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1. Pearl Loraine
2. Purple Spike
3. Rosella's Dream
4. Scream (I believe this is Liberty Hyde Park)
5. Starven
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Lovely collection
Martagons are blooming a few LA's as well. Many many buds.
Gary
Love the marts
Finishing the pictures I've taken
1. Stones
2. Tahitian Dawn
3. Tiger Babies
4. Tinos
5. Wanderer
all beautiful.Get ready for another smilebox just lilies so far. Mostly Asiatics
I dont want to sound like I am bragging but there are a lot of requests as to how many lilies I have.This is the official count
110 varieties and estimated 500 stems.
http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d7a49784e5467324d6a593d0d0a&blogview=true
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WOW! How impressive! What a wonderful show. Congratulations.
dlefferts,
Lilium tsingtauense has competely upfacing flowers. If yours has any kind of a tilt to the flowers, then it is the much more common imposter that is sold under the same name. That would be a natural hybrid of Lilium tsingtauense with Lilium distichum and/or Lilium medeoloides. If the plant only produced one flower this year, it is impossible to differentiate because even the hybrid can be upfacing with only one flower. The real Lilium tsingtauense will have all upfacing flowers no matter how many flowers on the stem.
Rick
Rick,
Thanks so much for the information. I didn't take enough pictures of the lily to know for sure which way the flowers were pointing. I just went out & looked at the lilium and all the flowers were gone. The flowers may have been pointing outward. I will make a note on the lilies record and see next year (hope it comes back). I purchased this lily a couple of years ago & it is the first time I've seen it. I've noticed that species & martagon lilies may take a couple of years to bloom. I love your pictures of the species and ususal lilies that you post on the forum. This is the main reason I started to try & have species lilies in my garden. I also love when you post your vast knowledge about lilies. I learn so much. Once again thanks for the information.
Deb
Here is a favorite of mine.
Sherry
