Wanted to update - Ironicly the first on my list was the first to bloom! Everyones help has paid off.
"Sun Ray"
Ready to take the plunge!!!
Pretty lily and very nice pic.
Wow Dax...beautiful lily setting...I bet the fragrance is unbelievable there! You timed yours right to bloom in unison!
Ghia, my two cents - I echo what the others have said. Also, given that you're in a pretty hot summer zone here on the Great Plains (a little cooler than we are but warmer than those in the Upper Midwest), a word of caution on the Orientals...they do not like intense sun/heat, and mine have in general not returned so well, epecially the late blooming ones. If you do plant them, they might benefit from a northern or eastern exposure to avoid the day's hottest sun. I have a couple early-blooming Oriental varieties that have perennialized well.
The other lilies all do well for me. Asiatics are always great and multiply like rabbits. The OT's are wonderful. In fact, I encourage you to try more Orienpets. They have many of the features of Orientals like great fragrance and wide open, colorful flowers, but are much more sun and heat tolerant and can hold up to extreme conditions much better than the Orientals. In fact, the stems on most of mine never turn brown until frost hits, and the heat doesn't faze the blooms. Not only have mine not declined, they have gotten bigger and more floriferous each year and are producing offsets as evidenced by the small shoots coming up near the mother bulb. Many of them also get very tall and command attention.
Trumpets are nice, but I like the more open flower of an Oriental - and while some Orienpets can have a somewhat trumpety shape, many are very similar to Orientals in appearance and have a similar spicy fragrance. It's no wonder they're so rapidly increasing in popularity. In your zone you should not have to worry about cold hardiness, either.