I wish! lol That would be an awfully heavy bouquet~ had to re-stake it today.
Fasciated Lilys
Now that Is an amazing Lily Moby!! How tall did it get...compared to a normal one?
Hey I also found a link.
http://www.wrls.org/culture/fasciation.html
In this article it says that your lily is a failure....send him a picture....and make him eat his words. LOL Mick
LOL Not sure I could do that: even I said they were a 'failure to differentiate'. The gentleman did say that it was the result of good culture ~ I've never been accused of having good culture before, so I'll chalk that up to the grower that I got it from. ;)
Can't wait until I can cut the top off and dissect it ~ just to see how many blooms there were and guess at how many stems there ought to be.
This stem and the normal ones are about 3.5' and the big stem that is coming into bloom is 4'.
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tpday I saw a fasciated larkspur. It looked like frizzy, badly permed green football. Hopefully Ill have a picture to post in a day or two when its owner sends it.
inanda
Well folks, here she is ~ Rosario in full bloom. I was hoping to wait for the dozen or so buds to open but we were expecting thunderstorms so I took this pic a couple of nights ago. Sure enough, 2 good rains beat the snot out of them and turned them into a big pollen mess.
This is the view from the front ~
And in profile ~
Gorgeous, Moby!! Too bad the storm beat it up though.
That is just fab. Moby. Glad you managed to take pix of it.
Awesome
So glad you got photos before the rain! Definitely a once in a lifetime cluster of blooms!
Susan
Moby...great bloom!!! ....was it quite fragrant? An Oriental, with that many blooms, I would think it should be.
Mine is showing color...the 4th of july is near.
Oh yes, very fragrant!
That's amazing! Too darned bad about the rain. But I'm glad to see how your lily turned out.
Menkids, yours is amazing too. Wonder if you can breed for this "problem..."
Judith
Well...once again walmart was wrong....I dont believe its name is Samur. But....Its gonna be pretty! And I do believe I like it better. This is one of the 2 smaller fasicated lilies that lost most of the buds.(when the stem split) I am looking for ID....Help!
Looks like an anemic Lollipop.
Might be Panorama. This is the best pic I could find of it and it's not very good.
Beaker..I could not find another picture of Panormama either. Here is another update of the fasciated lily though.
Good pic!
The sad thing about fasciated lilies is that they seem to come into bloom all at once and then it's all over.
An update of this fasciated Lilium pumilum....from today
Did most of the blooms drop off before flowering?
It's a lovely lily. What can you see that's wrong about it?
Saw my first face to face view of a fasciated martagon this week, when garden visiting. The stems was 1.2 inches wide, very very flaaaaat, bud area divided into 3. All buds aborted, strangely enough.
sorry to be so delayed....some of the buds aborted - 2 lower ones and a bunch of the itsy tiny ones at the top...still >30 blooms all told
Some of the flowers dropped off the bottom before the later ones opened higher up so not all were in bloom at once...
I LOVE this one!
Here are some pics of the fasciated lily, dissected.
Skinny minny....
Wow, those are great pics, Moby! Very strange looking indeed!
Why did this thread end? I've just read through the whole thing, building up to the finale, and y'all just stopped. :(
I wanted to see more "final results" of the blooms and I wanted to know if "menkids" stems ever broke, or did they stand on their own under that huge strain, or did you stake them?
They are so very, overwhelmingly beautiful! Now I'm going to read the article that was mentioned to find out why this is considered a failure. Maybe if the buds drop, but not if it blooms!!
I too wonder if this could be bred into the lilies.
Catherine
This what it looked like with all the leaves cut away. I figure it was equivalent to 7 - 9 stems with nearly 60 blooms.
That is so cool. I love the tricks nature can pull. And I see it managed to hold itself up without breaking.
Thanks for sharing!