Show Off Your Lilies

Wandasflowers"
In reference to trading, I have dwarf and tall Monte Negro [red] asiatic that I could trade you. Bulb for bulb is the way I trade.

Let me know, and I will put you on the list for fall trading.

Maxine

Maxine--Put me on your list! I'd love to trade lilies when the time comes! Bulb for bulb is fine with me.

I'm really enjoying the "in situ" photos too--I love to see the companion plants you all are using with your lilies.

How bout you reminding me as I suffer from Fibro fog and some days should be committed for not remembering.
It should be around the middle of Oct. as we won't be back until then from visiting our granddaughter in Calif.

Brenda, put me down for your lily coop, please?

Maxine

My first year with Muscadet. The largest bloom was 9-1/2" wide.

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woodspririt I must add that one to my want list. My it is gorgeous! And huge blooms also. What a combination!!

Just beautiful Betty! I want one too, how's the scent?

The scent is great! I have been in my lower terraced gardens, with the house between me and the rock garden where Muscadet is planted, and still smell the scent wafting on the wind. I only started with 3 bulbs. If they multiply nicely, perhaps I will have some to trade next year. I would love some Black Beauty and even some common Tiger lilies.

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langbr--I hope you can help me--Why is there so much variance in Stargazer and other plants in the database? I know lots of factors effect the photos, but is there also a difference in the dirt or sun exposure? If you plant the same bulbs from the same source in your yard & another yard , do they match or have a color difference to the eye?

I am interested in the coop also. I added several more lilies to my collection this year, some are ready to bloom soon.

I love this forum!

Wanda - Sun, temperature and I'm sure soil pH all play a role. My reading indicates the first two for sure. The latter is a suspicion of mine.

Regarding the Lollipop cultivar, I read an article just last week that discussed the fact that blooms only last a day or two when it is extemely hot out (90+ degrees). The article further discussed the affects of high temp on the deepness & richness of color. Higher temps caused a lighter pink and fading of the blooms very quickly.

Regarding Stargazer in particular.....I think a lot of folks say they have a Stargazer because it resembles one. There are many, many hot pink centered, white-edged lilies that resemble Stargazer.

'Shoe posted a photo of a lily he had asking if it was a Stargazer in this forum a few days ago. I posted a link in response to a page that showed several cultivars that it could have been -- all resembling Stargazer very closely.

These are just my opinions...I'm not an expert by a long shot.

thanx horseshoe , and se-eds, see-ds , i am faaaarrr from a pro.. i wish! then maybe i would have even more lilies.. mu-hahahahah...(:
violabird, hmmm doesnt look like stargazer to me, i could be wrong but at least all my star gazers had alot of the red all over the petals. like this one here below...

thanx langbr, i am workin on it! lol...(: i actually had alot of lilies that didnt come up at all , this is my first year with lilies, and i bought 19 different variaties and i think several of them didnt even show any green..): dont know if they died or if something got them or what... guess come fall i'll find out.. and i do agree with u 100% on getting the bulbs from a good company.. i will NEVER buy home depot and lowes bulbs again... about half of all the bulbs i bought there were not what they were on the package.. not with just my lilies, but glads and daylilies.. all my daylilies are all the same.. when there were supose to be 4 different kinds.. very irritating.
woodspirit, ur muscadet is so beautiful, i only had one of three come up , and the one i did have i got 3 blooms from.. but ur right the blooms are HUGE, and the smell is wonderful, just and overall beautiful flower, i would say one of my favorites..(:
moby, congrats on ur first bloom, stargazer was my first bloom , and of course it was this year.. i was tickled pink, i ran in the house al excited telling my husband, my stargazer bloomed , my stargazer bloomed.. and he was looking at me like ..."ahhhh-okaaay.... i'm real happy for u honey" ... (:

here is a lily that came in a home depot mixed bag... so i odnt know what it is,.. it looks like stargazer but like u pointed out langbr, so many look like like stargazer... but with this one the form is unusual compaired to all the other lilies that have bloomed... opening straight upward and flat..with of course the recurve.. but still very pretty.. i like this one..

Here is one of my new orientals this year. Lovely flower, form, and fragrance.

Purple Sensation

oh lilyfan, that sure is purdy..(: i saw that in a catalog a few days ago, and thought ohhh purple.. yummy... very nice, i am so glad to see u snapping pics of ur beauties.. it just wasnt fair hearing of all the flowies u have and not being able to see them and enjoy them with u..(: here is a pic of one that bloomed today for me.. it smells very sweet... very sugary, i "think" its 'Pink Virtuoso' but i am not sure... i also bought dizzy and hot lips, but cant remember what they are supose to look like, even though i looked them up several weeks ago.. the pink is a peachy color... anyway here it is...

OMG, cici. That is so funny! I do the same thing to my DH. Drag everyone outside to see and smell it, and get pretty much the same reaction!! ROFLMAO!
However, my DH always graces me with his first rose...

lol moby, my hubby always says ..ok , show me the new flower... lol.. but i ALWAYS have to go out and see something he has built or something new with the tractor, or even right now as i type this he is showing me things on our house plans that he is doing that i have noooo idea what the heck he is talking about , and i really dont NEED to know... but i just look at it and say "uh-huh..oh ok.. uh-huh"... i guess he thinks i know what hes talking about..lol.. so we trade off our "oh come look's" althought i think he gets the better end since he has something yummy to smell.. (: ur hubby has a rose garden or bush? my hubbys not aloud to cut my roses off unless he cuts them at the 5 leaf, he is afraid he will forget , so he doesnt touch them... lol.. one time he pulled out like 3 weeds, then thought , oh no these dont look like weeds so he replanted them back in the same spot.. then i guess by the end of the day they had shriveled up and died.. so he came in here saying now dont get mad, i was just trying to help u with the weeds but i think i pulled a flower or plant out thinking it was a weed... my mouth dropped and i sighed... he walked me over to the spot and sure enough they were weeds that he had tenderly planted back in their spot.. i laughed then.. lol.. he swore unless it was the common mustard weed we have around here he aint pulling anything else.. (:

That's just too sweet that he replanted the weeds!! Guess he ain't all bad! Two years ago, I made my dear hubby pose for height comparison since he's 6'1". Has kind of a 'pained' look on his face, huh?? BTW, the roses are HIS, (I keep my hands off...) and the rest of the mess is mine...

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I promise not to clean my DH "gun & re-loading" room & HE promises not to cut grass or pull weeds. I think that's why we manged to celebrate 20 years last month--we understand each others obsessions....

moby, handsom man u have there... better watch posting him on the net..(: and by the way great idea for having HIM pose for the height of flowers and such ..hmm gonna have to try that with mine..(: i know at first when i "thought" it was one of my flowies, i was kinda mad, but then when i saw it was just weeds i thought , well even if it HAD been one of my flowies he was only trying to help! (: guess i thought clearly AFTER i realized it wasnt one of my babies.. (: hubby likes to grow veggies.. mostly tomatoes and strawberries, BUT i am the one who takes care of them.. he only enjoys them and picks off the ripe ones.. hes prob scared he will mess something of mine up nearby.. lol.. poor guy..

wanda, OMG ur hubby reloads too????? so does mine!!! he taught me once about 7 years ago.. i had alot of fun and found it quite intresting how it all came together.. hubby collects guns.. he has since he was a child.. some people freak out about it, and think he is some maniac, lol, but really he just likes them, he has bought me three, and so far i am good, i dont think there are any others i want, unless they make special ones for gophers.. then watch-out.. i'd be reloading my own gopher amo.. lol..(: my hubbies gun and reloading room also happened to be his office.. and i only used to (when i lived in an actual house) vacume it.. i never cleaned ANYTHING on the desk or anything like that.. i didnt even dust.. my luck i would spray the wrong stuff and end up rusting the barrels of the guns on the gun rack.. or the gun rack would fall to the ground shooting my toe off or something stupid like that.. lolol

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oh moby, i forgot to say THOSE LILIES ARE TO DIE FOR!!!!!!!WHAAAAAAAAAA!!!! (crying of course!) how old are they anyway.. the tallest any of mine are , are 32".. of course this is their first season but some are even under a foot with one or two blooms on it.. dont get me wrong i am NOT complaining at all.. i love every lilie that has bloomed for me, short or a little taller..lol.. just wondering how old those are there in the pic?

Well, cici, that's the funny thing, with all this discussion about Stargazers. That photo is from 2002. I have 9 plants now (I think...) and my first 2 (the big ones) were bought 8-9 years ago; usually have 11-14 blooms each.
Labeled Lilium speciosum var. Star Gazer
They were the usual 3-ish feet the first year, and then about 5 feet since. A little shorter this year, I think due to the cool, wet weather. However, all the others I've bought here and there since they've become so popular, are consistantly about 3 feet tall and 3-4 blooms. Go figure...
PS. I didn't think it fair that I pose next to the posies since I'm 5'4" if I reaalllyyy stretch. They would look like giants!!

Okay, here's one that I forgot to label. Bought and planted in April from eflowergardens! 7 blooms per plant was the average. I know it's either Arena or Audabe.....guess I"ll need to look it up.

I know zonedenial posted his gorgeous pic of this lily, but I'm going to share mine also.

Just who is SHOCKING who?

Unknown white from the local nursery....impulse buy last weekend on sale! Who can pass up a good lily sale!!??

Cici--a shooter in California? I didn't think you guys allowed them out there. LOL My DH shoots trap & skeet 9 months of the year and pheasants/quail 3 months of the year. "Walker the Wonderdog" who is such a bane to my garden is our 1 1/2 year German Shorthair bird dog. Great in the field, on my flowers! Drooling over the Lilies here...

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Pot-em Up if you are going to get rid of those lilies, I"d love one too. That is on my list as well.

2 more new ones for me.

an oriental tagged 'Woodriff's Memory'

and an asiatic 'Pollyanna'

cici77-The picture you posted on July 9th is the lily I have which was sold to me as Mona Lisa. Yours may be a variation of Stargazer, but it certainly looks like mine.

Nice yellow one in the 'Pollyanna', Sue! I've decided I've got to get some yellows...a gap in my lily color palette ....LOL! I've been looking at some red/yellow combos.

Do you still have Asiatics blooming up there? I think mine are all done and I'm down to Orientals...I think all my Trumpets are done too. :-(

My asiatics are just finishing. I think I have one bloom left on three plants!

This one is Tom Pounce I think that is the name if I am remembering right. I could smell the wonderful aroma when I got about 10 feet in front of the planter. I think it has to be the most wonderful aroma of any of my asiatics.

Brenda I have 2 or 3 that haven't bloomed yet but for the most part mine are finished also.

Alice - that's Tom Pouce alright, but it's an Oriental not an Asiatic. That's why it's so fragrant too!

Very pretty pic!

I knew that if I had stopped and thought for a moment!!!!!

Thanks for straightening out this brain dead lady!!!haha

Love Tom Pouce! Will have to look for that one. Here is a new one for mr this year. Forgot to lable it, but I think it's Acapulco. At least I know I ordered one by that name and this looks close.

Sorry about the spelling above. My fingers frequently don't do what my brain tells them to. Here's my Black Beauty. Just planted it last fall and only have 2 blooms this year, but sure hope it will spread. Love the bright green eye. I give it it's own watering fairy.

Last one for today. Here's Casa Blanca. I lost a couple stalks this year. They just fell over and looked rotten t the base. Maybe a disease? Think it may have been too much moisure with all the rain, but still got some nice ones on the other stalks. This one always takes my breath away.

Here is a new one for me this year

dear owned..

I love the picture-you can't beat those butterflies for making our flowers look especially beautiful-thanks for sharing!!

Lilyfan, I just can't seem to get past that "Shocking". Do you label your flowers? How do you feel about "midnight poaching"?
LOL Good thing you don't live near here! Hey, are you coming on Sunday to see me?