Nice color combo, Dave, with the Triumphator. Very nice.
Lilies: Ok , Who has Lilies spring out of the ground -PART 2
Hello lily experts: I'm sure I'm just being impatient, but whereas my fall-planted martagons, Black Beauties, and speciosa have been breaking ground, there's still no sign of my new asiatics. Do they tend to break late and grow fast??? I hope? They're not getting much sun right now so perhaps they're just not warm enough, though all my lilies are in the same boat and, like I said, it's just the asiatics that are lagging. In a week or two, the sun will be high enough that they'll be getting lots. And it's going up to almost 90 degrees in a few days. Thanks again!
Many of the species tend to be early. I hardly have anything up yet. I think we're running a bit behind last year, but that's OK with me.
Dale, you should be able to grow anything that is a Longiflorum cross; LAs, LOs, and Longipet. There are so many different LAs available now, it should really open up possibilities for you. Longiflorum doesn't require a cold period for blooming. I proved this last winter when a pot of LAs I had forgotten about (inside the house) started spouting and eventually bloomed. Another unique characteristic about Longiflorum is that they can be propagated through leaf-heel cuttings. I plan to experiment this summer on some of my LAs. They don't put out seed, so right now the only method is through bulb scaling. It sure would be easier if all you had to do was take a leaf.
help! one of my bulbs lost its marker -- thinking I had a big empty space I was just digging to plant something, and I nicked this bulb pretty good. It's an absolutely enormous Buggy Crazy speciosum bulb with two thick stalks coming up just below ground level. Horrified, I just covered it up again, unable to look. But I'm sure I sliced off some scales, at least. Will it recover???
It should be OK. You can safely remove scales without injury to the bulb. It's one of the ways bulbs can be propagated. Leave it be and see what happens. The scales you nicked off will probably produce bulblets in time.
Thanks beaker_ch -- I hope I didn't do worse than just nick off some scales. So stupid.
Have to say that I was shocked to uncover these two stalks as thick as sausages. Much thicker than anything else coming up, including others of the same kind also from Buggy Crazy, and the few established lilies I've got.
Finally my L. xanthellum var. luteum has made a show, whew! L. poilanei appeared at the same time.
Now I'm just waiting on L. pyrenaicum (in the ground) and L. nanum Bhutan f. (pot)
I took pics but they are only tips yet.
Most of my lilies have broken ground in the past 3 days, but a few asiatics from Minnesota that I planted last fall must still be on a "northern calender" and are not up yet. With 76 degrees yesterday & 80 this week, I expect to see them all soon.
WOW! First time I've seen Tom Pouce in 3 years!!! Thank the Lord for Plantskydd !!!
I have a couple of teh Cocker hybrids that were some of the last to break ground. They'll be there soon.
I too am singing the praises of Plantskyyd. Tulips I have never, ever seen bloom will bloom in a couple days. Hooray!
Went out to look; Visa Versa and Muscadet have burst through. As hard as I looked, I could not see any others breaking through.
That's kinda funny: out of all of us (except Inanda), with my lilies in general being the last to peak out, all my Cocker hybrids are showing.
Now I wonder if that is because they are northern bred...
This is not the best pic, but today I have "Centerfold" blooming.
Larkie
It's good general info. that zones 7b-8a that have 1st blooms this early in the season. :-) Here is more of mine.
One big Casa Blanca is growing 2 inches a day in this heat & rain! like a weed?
Casa Blanca is one of my favorites, yes and it gets rather large. Ohh, I love them Lily.
Now, Matrix has burst through the dirt.
Here are my first two blooms of the season. This is a Golden Joy asiatic Lily.
This is my first time trying Lillies. I live in an aprtment. Does anyone have any suggestions on the care of this plant, and should I transplant it in a bigger po? Any suggestions or ideas you may like to share would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Hi there neighbor,
Your lillie is blooming now, so hold off on repotting until fall. Keep them water well while sitting in small pot.
Kim
About the water in pots, make sure you don't overwater. It looks like you have three or four stems there. How big is that pot? You may not have to transplant for a year or so. You should give it some fertilizer after they finish blooming and then again next spring when they start to come up again.
Thenks for all the info Lily_Love & beaker_ch. There are 3 stems with 4-6 buds on each stem. I have heard also that in the winter time you pull them apart, is that true?
When your clumps get to the point they need dividing, you do that in the fall after the stems have gone brown. Not sure what happens to them in the south, but this would be right after our first hard frost.
lil_beans;
(I like your nick name, BTW). Doing so is to devide/propagate your plants. Basically to give the bulbs more rooms to grow and increase your stocks. Or share it with friends/family. :-)
About every 3 to 5 years depending on how quickly your lily multiplies. Asiatics tend to be much more prolific and, therefore, need to be divided about every 3 years. Orientals man never need dividing, they multiple so slow. That's why it's a good idea to plant at least 3 oriental bulbs together to get a nice showing. Other lily types fall somewhere in-between. It's a good idea to know what you are buying and to do some basic research before purchasing a lily type (meaning Asiatic, Trumpet, Various XXXpets, Orientals and Species). They come in all sorts of heights, colors and some have higher acidic soil requirements than others. Some require more shade than sun.
Thaks for the info gys. I will do that, and hope I dont kill my plant. LOL! I live in an apartment, so when I divide the plant up, is ok to plant in a container you think?
Lily_love, that is the first thing that came to mind when I had to a name foe myself on here. I am only 5'1 and my nickname in high school was "Beanie" so that is how lil_beans came about! I have no idae why I was given Beanie as a nick name in high school. By the way, I have not one bean planted in my garden! LOL! By the way Lily_love, where is Vincent Alabama?
Yes, containers are OK as long as they get the appropriate time in the sun. Your Golden Joy would need about six hours of sun. If they don't get the sun they need, they will get taller and eventually the bulbs will decline. So, if that's the case, just be prepared to replace it periodically.
These are L martagon Claude Shride. Lilydigger gave them to me last fall. There are three nice stems and I'm hoping to see flowers this year.
Funny how those high school names stick, huh? Give you one guess as to mine....
Your middle name was Dick? LOL
Oh, Ticker...... I see you're gonna be trouble. ;)
Hey, I could have said "the Whale!" I was being nicer, not necessarily nice, but nicer... :) LOL
(*_*)// speechless.
LOL Not to worry, I'll be seeing Ticker later today or tomorrow.
LOL Ticker --good one!!!
Oooops, that's right... Gee, maybe I'll just hide behind Wanda or something...
L xanthellum luteum has finally popped up properly with a head which should flower.
L poilanei has also popped up further, but it looks pathetic. That may be it's habit, if it's like L philippinense it makes leaves first, flowering once it gets tall (if it is a correctly named plant). This one looks to have a certain sort of head to it though.
Both the L duchartrei have made buds, the one to the right is the smaller one and has a brown stem. The other has a little brown at the base of the stem.
wallaby1;
Do you raise the bulbs in container before you transplant them to the garden? If so, rationale? I'm currious. Or do you overwinter them indoor?
Lily_love, I have grown L goloriosoides in a pot in the greenhouse for several years as it was said not to be very hardy, and best grown in a greenhouse. When I got it, it was naturally a very small bulb, but it only grew about and inch of thin stem and took a couple of years to mature and flower. I have kept growing it there as I don't want to lose or risk it until I have a spare, and it hasn't shown any signs of increase. It's stems tend to be very thin for a start, and strong winds or cats may break it, it has flowered for 3 years but in the second year winds whipped it to death in the greenhouse through a blown out pane before the flowers opened.
I got a lot of new species last autumn, and put the two in the ground which I though may be tough, L rosthornii (now has 3 stems) and L pyrenaicum, which hasn't shown as yet.
These species cost more money than hybrids, and until I can see how strong they are I prefer to err on the side of caution. So far L. duchartrei looks to have thin stems, but it multiplies being stoloniferous, so I think I might be safe putting them in the ground when I know where (and if) I have an appropriate space. As this spring has been very dry, so was last summer, I am unsure if it is a good idea to put it in the ground until the weather decides to return to normal if ever, I might just use larger pots until I have more of them. You see the type of conditions it grows in,
http://www.deflorum.com/species/duchartrei.html
I do use a gritty soil and leafy compost mix, with a high compost content which they seem to like, and I can control the watering. Under cover, where they get morning sun and then a lot of shade with some afternoon filtered sun, the conditons seem to suit them. They do get more sun until the conker tree leafs out, when they are starting to grow. I guess in many instances it may be similar to growing amongst woodland clearings or edges, which some species lilies do.
I started L. hybrid Dizzy off in pots too, the bed I was to put them in hadn't been dug, but I planted them from their pots when it was ready. I think it gives them a good head start, and they probably get more good compost around the bulb than they would if I was just tipping some in the hole if planting straight in the ground.