How unusual. Or at least it is to me. I love the color.
First bloom 2013
Martagon Russian Morning or Red Russian
The orange border lilies in my garden are about done I have a new, taller Asiatic variety open today - of course, I've lost the variety name.
Beautiful and so bright and eye popping. Really puts pizzazz in a garden.
Wow! Boom!
Beautiful lilies LG. they look like my Asiatic lily Cancun.
JoAnn, love your Martagon lily, such a rich color.
Annette
Salmon Classic is opening
Hmmm. Could be Cancun' - that sounds familiar. Here they are glowing in the early morning sunlight today, the first day of summer.
Salmon Classic full force
noid.but my frist bloom
looks good
I ordered Oriental and Asiatic double lilies from American Meadows for this spring. The Asiatics are Cocktail Twins. They never look like the online photos in the catalog, but I think they are pretty good friends with Elodie and Fata Morgana which have been inground for a few years. For the past 3-4 years our lilies have been decimated by the red lily beetles, which have been controlled this year, thanks to spinosad on the soil.
The lily bud at the end has been growing and growing and is now about six inches long. While deep pink on the outside, I'm guessing the trumpet on the inside will be white. Just cannot remember from last year.
Not the best photos, but I think you can see the interesting inside petals on the Cocktail Twins. Wondering what the Oriental Broken Hearts will look like.
Marcia
I managed to over water this year and lost one of my favorite lilies Playtime. It isn't being offered this year by the grower but I would be more than willing to pay postage and the actual cost of the bulbs if anyone has some to spare. I did manage to find Gizmo the most huge (grammer ugh) blossoms in a very light lemon (blooms at least 9-10" across on short stems (24").
This freckled beauty bloomed this morning. I don't remember the variety name.
Mary, I finally found Playtime. Wet feet are about the only thing lilies won't tolerate. I hope you find it in the selection for next spring. I know the disappointment. Our six Triumphators are now reduced to one. Inground, it could be a water problem, but I'm guessing chipmunks.
This year's lilies (new bulbs) were planted and labeled. I used a blue sharpie instead of the regular black. Now that the names have washed off the tags, I will have to recognize them from the blooms.
For your viewing pleasure.
Lovely lilies everyone. I need to get it together and post my lily pictures.
cathy, I like to use a black paint pen with the skinny tip to label the plant tags. I'm done with the Sharpies, I've lost too many names of plants when the sharpie wore off the tag. You can get the paint pens at Michael's, and I get tags cheaply at Walmart.
I love Triumphator, mine is blooming this week, such lovely colors.
Here are Triumphator, American Sentinel, Pink Perfection with Regale, and African Queen. The gardens smells absolutely delicious from the trumpet lily blooms.
I watered and I believe the water followed the stems down to the bulb (or whatever) and that is why they rotted. Several of my peonies did the same thing but after digging one up in a fit of (I am ashamed to admit) anger I left the others and they were robust enough that the remaining unrotten part has sent up shoots. Cora Louise and Julia Rose and Lemon Chiffon among them. Soooooo relieved.
Mary, let me know if there are other lilies that you're looking for. If I have them, I'm happy to share. This is the second spring in my garden for most of the lilies, some of them haven't multiplied yet, but others have really taken off
I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your lilies and peonies. I'm happy to help in anyway that I can.
Annette
Lily lancifolium Flore Pleno
OT Red Dutch
Asiatic Madras
OP Siesta
LA Camelot
Thanks Annette. Thanks for your kind offer. That is very generous, but I have reordered one or two and added a couple of new ones. First order, when I stopped to look, was almos t$200. So I did a reality check and took it back to $90. I love the way your lilies are in drifts, so I think I will try to do that instead of sort of plopping them here and there. I do order and plant in 3's unless they are ghastly expensive ($50 for Tiramasu last year) but I think I am cured now. I will stick with more modestly priced ones. They are just as lovely and I can get more of them. I also like the mulch that lots of gardeners use for in between plantings. So I am also working on that. Otherwise the garden looks like a desert with plants in it. Not too attractive.
Mary, I hope the new lilies will do well for you. I love planting in groups of 3's and 5's. Most of my lilies are also planted in raised bed, which helps with the drainage, and prevented them from rotting. I'm also amazed at how fast they grow and bloom. Triumphator and Red Dutch were only planted on 4/10/13, and Flore Pleno on 4/15/13, and they're blooming already.
I've also learned my lesson about buying expesive plants. Everything always comes down in price eventually. I think the more expensive they are, the more I want them ;~) I now make a list of my wants, and wait for the prices to go down.
I've gotten wise to the end of season sales that some companies have, like Van Engelen in the fall for lilies, (just don't forget to plant them like I did, LOL), and Brooks Gardens for the peonies. Thank goodness the lilies survived, despite me, except Auratom Gold Band, and all bloomed except Anastasia, but she did put out nice leaves.
Mary,
I know this isn't the peony forum but...
I know about the "fit". Several of my peonies rotted, partially because of the way the plants were formed. The ones with the big hulking mass above the ground and the eyes further down? I know where they came from and I won't order from them (some were, sadly, gifts). I lost Lois, White Cap, and White Frost. All gifts from Steve. And Moonstone, my last underperforming Adelman peony (they get the prize - 0 for three) Paul M. Wild and Tourangelle never appeared. I dug and dug in my old beds and couldn't find them.
But my old ones from White Flower Farm and my new ones from Old House Gardens and Bannister came through. Bannister plants are very healthy, but I am going to move them in the fall because they need more light. I made the mistake of putting the OHG ones in a bed with walnut tree exposure. The plants came up and did not bloom despite lots of eyes and foliage, which I attribute to their noble attempt to bloom in what I did not realize was a disadvantageous situation. So I am digging up the two in the walnut bed and possibly putting them in pots to overwinter, and see if they recover.
I have also found that asiatics don't like walnut debris. Mine did not return. But trumpets laugh and mine are doing well. A Silver Sunburst in that bed is enormous. I found that on a forum. Roses do wonderfully. Miscanthus suffers. Nepeta does fine. Peonies suffer.
I also moved a bunch of lilies to a largely shade are - trumpets and orienpets. And they are doing really, really well. I moved them in bloom last year so they had to recover their reserves in the shade. And they did. As I post I will make a note of which lilies are in shade.
Donna: Thats interesting about black walnut leaves.Those trees are toxic. DD tried to get a raided vegetable bed going but everything died.Must be roots send off toxins too.
I just wish I'd done my research. The roots do send off toxins. Some say don't plant 30 feet within the tree. Some say 80.
And yes, unfortunately walnet toxins make veggie growing very difficult. My veggies beds are in a completely different spot.
I found an interesting list on an Extension website. Green peppers, tomatoes, and potatoes are particularly susceptible, apparently. Things lots of people grow. I grow them all sucessfully, but away from the walnut trees.
And you are right about the roots.
Not all plants suffer under walnut trees. I have a shady bed I call my 'giants' garden located under an enormous black walnut tree. I selected the plants from a list of plants that do well under walnut trees:
http://www.mortonarb.org/tree-plant-advice/article/887/plants-tolerant-of-black-walnut-toxicity.html
My neighbor has 5 trees that shade her back yard.She planted giant hostas there.
DD's tomatoes wilted and died the day after she put plants in.
Well done, Leawood. You were smart and looked this up BEFORE you planted. I found this list, but only when I realized that my asiatics didn't come back. I'm so happy I didn't put my baptisia there. And that's why the nicotiana alata seeds I put there did nothing. Anemone x hybrida Honorine Jobert struggled after being fantastic last year. I removed it from the bed but left just a bit as a test. I noticed that windflowers were on their list but I have these in three places, and the walnut bed ones broke dormancy much later and very weakly.
Here is an additional list of what has thrived - note the this bed is within ten feet of a walnut, and that nuts and leaves fall into the bed. This is of course anecdotal, but it never hurts.
Roses: I have several Austins as well as Marchesa Bocchella, a Portland, shrub rose Jacquelyn DuPre and Sea Foam. They are all thriving. Roses were not on any of the doomed lists.
Perennials: heuchera, digitalis Husker Red, Nepetas Souvenir, Dawn to Dusk and Snowflake, hardy geraniums
Herbs: parsley, feverfew tetra strain, nasturtiums
Annuals: mirabilis jalapa, salvia coccinea
Alliums: christophii, ramosum, oreophyllum
Grasses: chasmanthium latifolium. None of my miscanthus is growing strongly and I am in the process of removing it from the bed.
Lilies; Trumpets are growing strongly and budding up well.
Daffodils: my division 1 and 2 (trumpet and large cup) did well.
I could tell my peonies were suffering because they had lots of eyes when I planted them, and leafed up, but never flowered. When I looked closely I could see little withered buds.
There were no walnuts in my former community, which was fairly new. So we didn't have any of the garden disasters I have now - walnuts, weak limbed maples. Last week 20 foot dead maple limb crashed into my garden where I had been five minutes before. Two weeks ago a 12 fot dead limb came down. I have only fruit trees in my yard but I have neighbors with trees with dead limbs that periodically come crashing down. Since the community will not dispose of any limb more than two inches thick and five feet long, I just put on my garden gloves and heave big branches into the yards they come from. I called the community tree service and found out that dead limbs over my property line that are in neighbors' yards have to be removed at their expense. My neighbors don't take care of their trees, so besides the acorn and walnut leaves and maple seedlings I get this. The previous owner of the home removed the gutters because the deluge from the walnut tree was so awful.
I can't wait until they are removed. I will also get more light.
Donna, when a neighborhood is more than 50 years old, there are bound to be trees. Since our house was built in1942, we have a constant barrage of dead limbs of all sizes and thicknesses after every rain storm. A bigger problem is having trees with roots in a 30 foot radius. Like you, I can't wait until they are removed.
Mary, most of my lilies are in containers with relatively good drainage. If the containers come with a removable base that acts as a well, I remove it or the water it holds rots the plants. If the base is not removable, we get busy with our drill. The cheap window boxes we purchase have bases that look like they don't come off, but they do. You can separate them with a screwdriver and pull the base off. I don't know if this helps, but it couldn't hurt. And I know the lilies are happy as they have multiplied (the asiatics) in many of the containers.
That might be a good idea. I could place the pots around the garden rather than on the decks. How big for those pots. What if they are orienpets? Would that really only work or orientals? Asiatics
Oberon: I have some Tiny Spiders and Tiny Orange Sensations in 8 inch pots.I put 3 or 4 in a pot and place then in areas where I am not sure about a color choice..I move them when they bloom if the area isnt what I want.I havnt planted asiatics that are taller. I have standard sized asiatics in containers on the deck and just replaced them with Tiny Spider.They last about 3 years in those bigger pots.They dont multiply much and if there is a bad wet winter they just crump out.
Most of my lilies are pretty large. I don't think I have any under 3' and some went to 5'. But I will still keep it in mind. I like the idea of being able to move them about the garden.
Three-foot lilies do fine in containers. If your lilies grow taller, use a larger container with more weight and put in more bulbs and a bit deeper. If my container is REALLY large (and deep), I cheat. I purchased circles of styrofoam in the craft store and create a false bottom. It does not use as much soil, they have good drainage and when they are watered, the pots are not as heavy. I like to use packaged soil and try to save pennies wherever possible.
The 35-gallon tubs of lilies on the back deck are just about "done." I think this is summer 4or 5, and the plastic has begun to deteriorate and become brittle. In addition I think the lilies want "out." As soon as they bloom, they are coming out. I know there are lots of small bulbs that start growing but are not mature. Last year and the year before the plants were absolutely decimated by the red lily beetle. This year I found the solution and took control, so I expect blooms. In addition I don't think we're getting the same amount of sun on the deck due to tall tree growth, and the lilies are bending for light in some areas. All the smaller containers that were on the deck made it through the winter and are now receiving sun. All have been deep enough for lilies to anchor well.
My lilies are starting
Tiny Orange Sensation
Buff Pixie at the front
Welcome to container city. I simply cannot afford many fancy containers, so these are what I use the most for lilies and such. (Then I let the plants make them fancy.)
The first is a container from last year, and as you can see, it is plenty deep (about 10" in diameter).
The second photo has a black container that has false bottom, and as you can see, there is room for lots more soil.
You can tell that the third and fourth photos really let me move stuff around.
The last photo has lilies from last year on the right and the lilies in the center are the asiatic cocktail twins interspersed with oriental broken hearts (for a little variety).
I don't know how hard your winters are, but we just scramble them all up in light of high-wind storm warnings.
For the calla lilies, I think we'll make a new holding area in the basement. They winter well indoors.
