This I have had now for a few years, it just gets better!
Lilium nepalense is open!
Thats very nice. Haven't seen that one before.
Now that's to die for! Good job wallaby! Do you have just the one?
It probably wouldn't like your TX heat, although we have had some hot stuff lately it's not the norm.
It has a powerful musky scent too, I love it.
The one bulb has sent up a few new shoots now, at the moment 2 stems flowering, the stems are only just tall enough to hold the huge flowers off the ground! I had to get the camera under it leaning on the ground.
Hi pardalinum! I just read your post, there is now 8 stems from the one original that's been there for perhaps 6 years, some are new this year.
I took some pics from above, they are really short, around 18" or just over tall. I haven't downloaded them yet, late now so might do it tomorrow.
Wallaby, I saw where you are also zone 8A like me and was wonderin if ya'll had a little bit of Texas over there. We never know what's gonna grow until we try it. Things that usually say full sun doesn't necessarily mean full sun in Texas. So sometimes we try things more than once to see if we can make it happy in the garden. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Ya just never know.
scoolie, lately we have had temps up to 31C, today back to a more normal 20C or so. It is expected to be between 21 and 24 for the next 10 days, but again, not normal! Last July was freezing, you can only really rely on the first two weeks in August to be warm and that is the low 20'sC!
You might say it is a cool climate. The occasional heat is probably OK but you have hot early in the year. Still you could try!
This is growing at the base of a bank in a mostly shaded spot, it needs to be well drained and kept moist. It sems to suit it. They don't like to be disturbed, the new stems grow out sideways and come up away from the bulb. I got worried when I couldn't see it growing when I first planted it, when I found it growing sideways I thought it was looking for the light! They do that, as I found out, and are late growing but earlier to flower than others
Well Wallaby, call me crazy but I just ordered one. We'll see what she thinks of Texas.
Jeal -ou-sy!!!
Quite wonderful. Amazing that you can grow it in the ground. Are you chalky? Lincoln, I dont think so. Dont know the north too well.
inanda
I grew it in Victoria BC but it wandered and came out of the hole in bottom of the pot.
I like risk takers! I'm one myself, you don't know if you don't try do you ?
I took this tonight, the second one from above but it wasn't fully open.
inanda I have sandy, stony acid soil. it's planted near a large horse chestnut tree, and near that stone in the last picture. It won't do in a pot, it's habit is to go sideways. The conditions in a pot wouldn't suit it anyway.
Leafy compost and a large stone to keep in moisture, I think I planted it quite deep too. It's slightly on the slope so will drain well, and on a north-east facing curve. Just plant and ignore! They like to be left alone.
I agree with everybody--that's a wonderful lily, wallaby--and, scoolie, what bulb supplier did you order from?
And btw, does anyone know a good source for a red canada lily?
I ordered it from WorldPlants. Comes in a 4" pot. Not sure how they are. I couldn't find them under any preferred vendors. I also ordered a double tiger lily. They sell lots of other plants as well.
I just found them under the garden watchdog. Listed as Trans-Pacific Nursery World Plant Shop 100/100. All Positive.
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Tabasco - Do you mean L. pumilum? If so you just missed a bulb coop that was selling these.
Thanks, scoolie--will look them up.
beaker--so, the co-op is closed now, I guess. Thanks for the info. I am never quick enough to get in on those...
Yes, it was really a bulb coop through Brent and Becky's. Personally, while I have nothing against B&B, I like getting bulbs from the people who specialize in Lilies. There's been talk of another coop, but I think words were exchanged and it fell apart before it got started.
We are hoping for a co-op with the Lily Garden but it may be a couple of weeks before we know. Just wait and see.
Sounds great. I will sit tight then. Thanks.
I'm for getting in on the Lily Garden CO-OP if it happens. Need some of those Silk Road.
Janet, I've just got to stop reading your threads. You lead me into such trouble.....
:-)
A Lily Garden coop would be a good.
Lynn, if you want to be led into trouble by one of the bad girls, I can't stop you!
Bad girls like exciting things didn't you know?
Hey wallaby- can my baby nepalense come out and play with yours? Gently of course; no roughhousing!
Baby n's birth info LOL...
Gee pardalinum, I've told you before your kids are too rough for mine!
Hmm, interesting, I think I have come across this before,
http://www.the-genus-lilium.com/nepalense.htm
But there is no mention of it in some places
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilium#Lilium_nepalense
It is mentioned on the PBS as there being three types
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Lilium
Four are mentioned on this list
http://www.plantamed.com.br/GEN/Lilium.htm
I wonder which mine is?
Where did you get yours from, you do belong to a Lily Association I have seen.
According to McRae's book the commercial variety is robustum and the description seems to fit your lily. My seeds came from McRae via the North American Lily Society seed exchange.
It is a very large flower for the stem. It's such a short stem and a heavy flower they hang close to the ground, but it's fun peeking under them!
Last year I had 3 stems in flower, two of them had at least two flowers on. This year it was a very cold winter but then came hotter than usual (late), I only have the two flowers. It could be putting it's efforts ino more bulbs this year instead.
I got a seed head from it, but as it's not supposed to be totally hardy I put it in this spring, still waiting for germination. Perhaps I should have sown them in autumn.
How are yours doing?
Janet said: Bad girls like exciting things didn't you know?
I know this all too well.....
(And have you ever noticed that like-attracts-like?)
Oh yes Lynn, I have already sussed the other bad girl out! ROFL!
That is one impressive lily wallaby1.
Hi jmorth, you are right, I was sticking my nose in it tonight and the scent is normally a musk, I love it but the reports always say unpleasant. Not at all! It seems to have changed to a scent I recognise in something else but can't think what, it's like a good quality perfume with a hint of Lily of the Valley. I don't know if the warm weather we have had has done that.
That is one of the most beautiful lilies I have ever seen! I'm tempted to try it too now. See what you started.
susan
hehe, I am an enabler, isn't that good? You should try it!
Wallaby,I thought Lilium nepalense needed dry winters. And you don't do anything special for a wet English winter?
Well I'll be darned:
I had planted a L. nepalense bulb WAY back in April. Thought it must have rotted, or was going to skip a year. But had to just go out and look since I've been gone for 4 days and . . . there it is!!! I am so excited because it was quite a sizeable bulb. I expect that it will bloom this season. I think you are just good luck, Wallaby!
Well I hope I am good luck Leftwood, we have just had a little rain tonight so perhaps you are good luck too! Or was it because I watered with the hosepipe.
They require well drained, mine is at the edge of a tree overhang in sandy soil and on a slight slope.
Contrary to pupular belief, our rainfall per annum in only just over 20". It's just the dull and cold weather that makes it seem wet. We have had very little rain at all this winter, spring, or summer. It must be at least 2 weeks since we had a short downfall of 1/4" or so.
Wallaby, that species is spectacular! I've never seen that one in person and have never seen it for sale in Canada. Maybe I can find a seed source.
Todd if I get seed your name is on it, I had 20 seed from one pod last year. I sowed it in late spring, as it isn't fully hardy but as yet no show.
It is a bit of fun, you have to get down to the ground to smell it, or even look under it, but what a beauty! The colour has gone really dark now. It just occured to me that I could smell it last year I think when anywhere near, perhaps it was the cold, which is the reverse to roses.
Your yearly rainfall certainly is an eye-opener for me, Wallaby. I am one of those "popular" people who never realized.
Lilium nepalense does have immediate epigeal germination, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't benefit from cold stratification or fall sowing. I would say there is still a strong possibility that your seeds will emerge next spring. Seeds, in general, are more cold hardy than the plants themselves.
That's good news, I wasn't sure which way to go so took the safest route. I grew Lilium philippinense from seed last year and it germinated well with a late sowing, I don't remember how long it took though. I find some seed germinates in July after a cool spell, this July is hotter than most. I am patient!
Thanks for the info.
Todd,
I got mine from Thimble Farm on Salt Spring. Fraser Thimble Farm? If you ever speak in Victoria (BC) don't miss going out there.
http://www.thimblefarms.com
have fun
inanda
edited to say that Tom Greatrix grows them but don't know ifhe sells them!!!! You might twist arms atThimble Farms. Am sure they hve a few around, maybe just not enough to put on their website.
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