I got home to see Silk Road in full glory. Ted said we had horrible wind on Fri and Sat and that things were blown over and down all over the yard. SR is leaning a bit, but seems to have survived.
sorry...I posted on the wrong thread
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nice, nice, nice. I do love lilies. Finding that the asiatics float my boat more, simply because they generally face up at me. However, those giant stands like Silk Road - stop me in my tracks!
lilyfan, those are lilies and this is the lily forum, right? Seems to me you posted in the right place for the rest of us! Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! The wind plays havoc with my lilies too, shreds petals like mad. Grrrr.....
Thanks rev, I meant to post on the summer lilies pt 6, but this is the one I had up at the time.
Here is a lily I got from Faraway
Black Spider, and to think I almost passed on this one!
pretty.
That's a real beauty. I love the colors. Every part of the flower is unusual, including buds. I haven't seen that one before.
Love your Silk Road for it's many blooms (and big ones), This is the first time I've seen a picture of Black Spider; it's so pretty - sorry they named it after a bug.
- sorry they named it after a bug.
LOL Lefty! We say the same thing about dogs in our family.
I am wondering if this is called "spider" because it has 8 petals. (at least this is what it looks like in the picture.) Most have only 6
I like spiders.
:-)
as long as they are not in my bed.
Nope, only 6 tepals on Black Spider.
I do have a lily who has 8 tepals on one bloom this year, has 8 anthers also. It is an unnamed seedling.
Beautiful Sue! Is it one of yours?
I wish it was. I have no idea who bred it, it just came with a number.
Gorgeous!
Even the stigma is 4-lobed! Interesting. I'd grow it for the oddity, but a base 4 lily just isn't very pretty to me. I have the same preference with Iris: in 3's is just more pleasing.
Hmm... and what do you think of this stigma?
The parasol effect . . .
Normal for the cultivar or an anomally?
I think it steals from the beauty of the flower: Makes me think of a Popeye cartoon.
An anomally.
same here, that is the only blossom on the stem that is a quad.
This double oriental is the second year growing in the garden and boy is it ever gorgeous. It is so fully and absolutely double flowered that I was awestruck.
I think it's 'Lady Liss'
Wow, that's quadrupled!
That is gorgeous!
Beautiful!
Ahhh . . . .
The hose-in-hose, in-hose, in-hose, in-hose, in-hose.
(Wheww! Not many flowers have that many hoses!)
Hey its my turn to FF now! (Lefty you are funny)
This is Geisha Girl, leaning over quite a bit...
I think Madame Butterfly is my favorite FF.
Painted Lady close up...
And Painted Lady inflorescence. I think I mentioned last year that Painted Lady exhibits a faint darker pink chevron on each petal.
Pink Heaven is tall and showy in the garden.
Maywood is a bit of a darker pink...
Manissa...
Look at how nice 'Maywood' looks in your Pacific Northwest climate, as compared to mine.
Maywood is the darkest of the pink FFs. but it does lighten up some as it ages and before it browns out. For the most part we haven't had a hot summer except for a few real scary days early on. Most days are in the 80s and a few in the 70s. I don't know what would cause the difference in color; is it the temperature or is it the soil...
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Maybe both. 'Geisha Girl' looks waaaay softer at my house than say it did for victoriablu last year. The colors were vastly different. Lucky for me on that one, the softer solid pink is which I prefer.
'Maywood' on the other hand pretty much looks the way I posted it here from start to finish. It doesn't really start out your nice pink. My soil pH is 7.5 range, so it could be the heat we experience or the alkaline soil.
'Love Story' has some of the largest flowers I have ever seen on an oriental. Simply gorgeous fragrant blooms.
I knew from the getgo that this color combination would be a winner. I know it has been posted by gemini I think, but can I say, it's really to die for....
Thank you Faraway Flowers for putting this on your list this year! Splendid choice oriental!
Here is L leichtlinii. It really came through with a high bud count for a spring planted first year species lily; I was quite amazed.
OOOOOhhhhhhh, I really like this one too....
'Paradero'
