Happy Birthday wallaby1

May your day be filled with blooms aplenty. Happy Birthday!

Thank you magnolia! What a GORGEOUS Lily! What's it called? Lol, I would love to grow that one (along with all the seedlings!)

Hope your having a good day wallaby1. It is Yellow Henry or otherwise called L. henryi citrinum. Glad you like it ;) You don't have this one? Ahhh, a must have for the species-type connoisseur. Aren't they all though. Lol!

Oh YES I DO!! Lol, I didn't recognise it, it looked different to the pics I have seen. I have 4 nice seedlings which survived, most of the 10 grew but they had trouble rooting. That's thanks to pard!

Gotta get out to enjoy some of that sun which is pushing back freezing fog!

Lisa from Buggy Crazy reports in the link below that it is their own strain of this variety and the looks of it may vary. I love the one I received , but I am certain I'd love any one of those pictured.

http://buggycrazy.vstore.ca/product_info.php/pName/l-henryi-v-citrinum-soldout/cName/lily-bulbs-species

Happy Birthday Wallaby1, may your day be filled with all that is good and beautiful.

That explains it magnolia!

Thanks llilyfan, ooh, all that is good and beautiful sounds the best present ever to me!

Hey wallaby, Happy Birthday! Glad to hear the seeds I sent you are growing. Your germination/survival rate on these are similar to mine, about 30-40%. But the ones that do survive are quite vigourous and that is nature's way. I'll be planting out 1 inch bulblets this year.

Hope your day is great and keep taking pictures of those birds! Yeah, I do a bit of lurking on that wonderful forum. I must get a better camera!

Thanks pard! It was strange with those, they made tall leaves but no roots, as you say nature's way to weed out the fittest.

I have some hypogeals germinating now! Those that grew last year started to sprout, but we are having very frosty nights just now. That's good for those hypos needing to grow.

Oh yes you have to get a good camera to get bird pics, will be expecting you there! Lurking allowed for now, lol.

Here's a pic of your yellow Henryii I took on 30th January, it doesn't seem that long ago! They remained green, haven't checked after these hard frosts but they are in the shed.

Oh they look just like mine;-)! Mine have been growing outside all winter. They are on my covered porch so they are exposed to the low temps. but not the incessant rain. We had a brief cold spell down to about 20 F and I covered all of my outdoor seedlings with a thick blanket.

The interesting thing about many lilies is that at this pre-stem stage and given a bit of protection they will have a few leaves all winter feeding the bulb. They even grow new ones if some are lost.

I poked around in my Bells pot and found husky bulblets that should be ready to plant out this year. It is fitting that they have come back to the land of their ancestors!

So did I come back to the land of my ancestors pard, I'm not so sure that is a good thing, lol! I was thinking of planting mine up into larger pots until they are bigger, the best care when young will give them a better chance.

I've got a pot with growing L. formosanum several inches tall, they started to regrow late in the year and look like they might flower, I think they are still OK! These are yours too, will have to get a pic.

Very happy birthday wishes to you!

Thanks Moby!

And I almost didn't turn the PC on today . . . . Happy Birthday, Janet !!!

I'm not big on papillae(sp?) on lilies. I can take 'em or leave 'em. But I really like the etchings on that citrinum, Magnolia. Very nice variant.

Here's another special one. Maybe it would have stayed alive more than a year if I knew better. It was during my early ignorant years as a lily enthusiast:

Lilium oxypetalum var. insigne

Thanks Rick!

That is how we all start out, it's not until we have the time or the bug takes us over that we learn how to do things properly. If we don't fall at the first hurdle and give up we get better at it!

It's a very delicate lily, one that seems to be popular amongst the enthusiasts here.

Look what I spotted yesterday,

and..

Hey! Happy Birthday Wallaby1, I hope it's warmer over there than it is here! I hope you had a wonderful day!

Hey! Thanks Ticker! If you call warmer at -2C (28F) with freezing fog (not so bad today but sitll -2C!) at midday with no sun still at 3.15pm then yes it is warmer!

Still having a wonderful time with all these wishes, thanks!

I'll take it!!! :) It's a -5F here and we're expecting more snow this afternoon. :) 28 F would be like a heatwave! LOL

You must be made of strong stuff to live in that! I have known it to -4F here and it was very cold, but with sun all the time (unusual!) it wasn't so bad.

-5F isn't too bad, it's been way worse this winter. Iowa is not bad compared to our neighbors North of us... Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Canada, etc.. It's all in what you get use to.

Did you do anything fun for your Birthday? I do hope so. :)

For people comfort, I am really glad we don't have the moist air in the winter (usually). That makes it seem much more cold. Cold isn't bone-chilling unless it is moist cold. And I don't know how well I would like those short days either. Predicting a dry -15F (-26C) here tonight

I do have some Lilium oxypetalum plants I sprouted from seed last year. Variety insigne and straight species, I think. Hope they get old enough to be sexy.

Wallaby, are those parvum and c/k cross the first time or second time they're sending up leaves? They sure look healthy compared to mine last season. These western North American species are trickier. I did the baggy thing last winter and removed each tiny bulblet when they started sending up a leaf, as was "recommended". They were very frail, and some bulblets' leaf didn't even make it to adulthood. Not betting on a lot of survival this year.

Wallaby, see, my neighbors to the North are way more tough than me. :) LOL

Agreed Ticker, but Lefty is right about the moist damp cold. It can feel worse at 50F (or more) with cold winds and damp than it can at 40F with sun and no winds.

I think the parvum and c/k cross had some or at least one appear last year (that or something similar!), now if I had my pics I could check! I might have a pic on DVD but not sure when I burned them, and that would mean searching through them! I may have mentioned it somewhere here or a dmail. A good reason to keep proper records, which to me take some of the fun out of it or I just can't be bothered on top of taking pics, growing, watering etc.

That's why I prefer to just put the seeds in a pot and leave them to their natural habits, other than me having to water of course. I used a loose leaf compost on top so they didn't get too wet.

I scratched down and found a L. superbum with a bulbil, root and pushing it's seed up too.

Damp or dry, being cold is nasty. I much prefer it to be sunny and about 80 degrees with a nice warm southerly breeze. :) With nice warm dirt to play in. :)

I sure know what you mean about records. Sometimes I am just happy I have them labeled correctly! But I am getting better.

Ye I did think of that Lefty, but neither term seemed appropriate! It seemed more 'bulbil', 'offsetting' from it's seed than a 'bulblet'!! Lol, we will have to make up a new term for it. Hey I'm close to royalty and I'm not a lurker, lol!

I have on occasion forgotten to put a date on the label, then thinking I will remember when it was because I put them with others with dates ... then I move the pots! I console myself by thinking I can always find it on here somewhere, some hope!

I got a pic of L. formosanum today, after -6C in the greenhouse, and the pot is near the glass, no damage! The old ones have now died back completely, the new ones started while they were still green. There's about 8 in there.

If it's just a tiny bit of a bulb, would that make it a bulbit? Never let them say that neologism isn't alive and well here in the lily forum. :)

Looking for bulbit! (it does sound good!)

A bird makes the call "bulbit.. bulbit"

http://www.news.gov.hk/en/hkforkids/default/050706/html/050706en50003.htm

Bully Bites (100 per case) is a Bulbit!

http://www.rawdietpet.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=12_13_32&products_id=46

It's in a File for TULIP viewer!

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/dev/user/cfields/src/tviewer/Imakefile

Don't understand the language on this,

http://www.revir.com/v01/pages/p15/1031/130788.shtml

I like this one best! It's "A Backyard Beastiary: #1 -Bulbit"

http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/view.pl?id=76556

Wallaby, what time is it where you are?

Right now, 5.42pm, my time is on my home page which is set to GMT

Well yes Lefty, and I live close to Royals! Besides my connections.... ∑ :~))

I think the secret of my surviving Lilium is two fold, one they are under cover and two they are grown hard (but in good stuff) without added fertiliser.

Wallaby, Should we be curtsying to you? LOL

We have always known that wallaby was royalty, haven't we? How about Lily Queen?

All Hail Wallaby, the Lily Queen!!!

Lol! No need to curtsy, that was only in the old days and I happen to be a modern (Lily) Queen!

Now if Liz's ancestors had been knocked out, who knows, I might have been there (and if my ancetors had been first born!), lol, I do have (very) distant relatives/ancestors who were and still are Lords! Yes it's true! Lol!

Ok, maybe I won't curtsey, but I'll still say Hail to you o Lily Queen! :)