I need help to ID this lily. It doesn't look like any of the pictures I have in my records. I think it is very pretty but, I don't know which one it is. Please help if you can.
Thanks
Debbie
Please help ID This Asiatic Lily
Looks like one of the tango lilies 'Honeybee' to me, but there are others out there.
llilyfan,
I looked back through my records and yes I've purchased Honeybee. So once again thanks for your help.
Debbie
Hope you don't mind if I tack on my question to your thread..was asked on Plant and Tree Id thread to try here...
this lily opened today...it is very short ( the "nana" beside it is also first year 3"height)
White w/little burgandy speckles. Fairly bright foliage. Travelled from seed from a neighbor maybe. I've never had lilies in this part of the garden.
tentatively id'ed on other thread as "Asiatic"
any help would be appreciated as to type and variety.
This message was edited Jun 30, 2008 7:18 PM
It indeed is an Asiatic lily. However, if it grew from an "errant" seed then it does not have an identity as it relates to being a named cultivar. Garden lilies do not grow true from seed. A number of us on this forum have been having fun growing lilies from seed and seeing how different a seedling can be from the parent plants.
Even if it isn't a seedling and somehow a vegetative piece somehow got started in your garden it would be hard to identify because there are many named white Asiatic lilies.
Are you sure you didn't plant the lily there and you forgot about it? Sometimes a lily bulb will not put up a shoot and remain dormant for a season or two. I have just witnessed the return of a lily I have not seen for 2 seasons!
Ah...thanks for the reply. I've not lived here that long and have no idea what the former owners planted. The "travelling" was just a guess as the neighbor across the driveway (small suburban lots) does have an extensive perennial garden (her entire lot) with a few lilies mixed in.
It's welcome in this bed...I've planted some dahlias, butter & sugar irises and some iberis and siberian steves for next year and actually these asiatics could fit in with the ladybells and blue clematis and maroon/white geranium if I could just figure out what they are.
How nice to move into a place with goodies already installed.
It is certainly pretty. I bet you will have other goodies popping up.