Lilies: 2009 Blooms III

I heard that! ^_^

Jmorth, your lilies are wonderful.. I can hardly wait till it's lily season here! :) Until then, please keep posting your pictures!

Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful!!!

Steve, I really like your American Series one up there...maybe it's American Spirit???

Thank you all for the nice words - and nanny, I think you are right; that is exactly what it is. I like the Botanical garden shot kim and jmorth it is amazing you have such blooms where you are relative to the bloomtimes all of your peers have....you appear to be right up there where Lily, voss and I are. Green Goddess is awesome.

Didn't get home from work until almost 11 pm last night and was dead tired - visitors and my boss were all in town :-( If I make it through today I'll be OK and can get back out and play in the garden again!

Moby, what is the name of your red Asiatic? It is an awesome, clear, even red. I have a couple of reds - some of them can fade badly here and I hve one steadfast red though not large like in your picture. Really pretty.

pixie, I love your phlox so thanks for the feedback. I would like to see what an orange phlox looks like. I have Rowie and also Laura, like you, and a couple of others, but mine are generally pink or purple. Oh and there's the one mags gave me recently that I put in a prime garden spot. :-)

I had to pull another Satisfaction stem/bulb because of signs of virus. I think I got those a couple yars ago from John Scheepers. :-(

My Pink Giants have thick, waxy petals and hold up really welll in the sun. I was surprised at how substantial they are. You guys will love yours.

My end-of-season Brent and Becky bulbs arrived yesterday - I will pot up for the remainder of summer and then plant late fall. Got 60 (10 each of six varieties) of the LA's, some OT's (Miss Feya looked interesting), an Orintal (Sorbonne) and a couple of others. I think 80 bulbs altogether. Hopefully I can plant tomorrow night if not tonight depending on when I get home tonight.

Tracey is right on the LO's - I am going to look for every one I can find this summer. You all must try them if you haven't already. There is one to die for on the B&D site called "El Condor" which hopefully will be available this fall. Should have nabbed that when I had the chance. What an exciting group of lilies! I also have Sunny Crown, an OA, which I have not seen bloom yet that I am excited about. Orientals aren't the bext choice here either, so I never plant more than a few tokens - but all of the hybrids really allow you to enjoy the best features of the Orientals with better climate tolerance as Susan states.



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Steve, on the ones you pot for summer, do u place in shade? do you water? I lost a couple last yr and I think it's b/c I didn't know what I was doing.

my B&B summer order not here yet. I've already placed my daff order w/them. Not much, just 100 Carlton and 200 Ziva.

Hi Steve,

Orientals are tricky, but Sorbonne has persisted in my garden for years. B&D lilies' Dianna was kind enough to send me some when I tries one of each of six oriental lilies in my yard and got none, even with amended soil within a retaining wall.

Casa Blanca is another one of the few that actually multiplies.

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Casa Blanca has done well here for me as well. Though, slow to multiply and If I remember correctly, CB is the last one to bloom in the season of all my lilies. Donna, I've asked on last thread about your Baptisias, have they bloomed yet for you? Mine are two year old (plus) and didn't bloom this spring. Though, the 'Purple Smoke' did like clock work.

Hello everyone -- haven't posted for a while, but have been following things here closely and enjoying everyone's photos immensely. We just got back from a trip to England, including a day in London at the Chelsea Flower Show, where I couldn't help thinking of you all. Took some pix, which I'll share now. My favorite part of Chelsea is the great pavillion where all the nurseries and specialty growers display their stuff. There are entrances all around, dozens of them I'd say. And where did I enter by chance? Here:

Will post a few more....

pip pip...

cheerio...

one more...

um, one more more....

It was too early in the season for there to be much lily action in the display gardens, but since I know there are a lot of peony people here, will share a photo of one of my very favorite plantings on display:

Beautiful. It looks like a fantasy world. How did it smell?

A little overpowering, actually.

Ahhh... I think I'm going to faint! I need this one http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6632797

Wicker, You are ONE LUCKY DUCK! It must have been amazing! Thanks for sharing!

The really dark one in that picture Moby? I've been drooling over it too.
Very nice, thank you so much for sharing those pictures Wicker!!

Oh yeah ~ be still my heart (actually, i think my heart stopped there for a moment!)

Thanks Donna - I remember you writing about the Sorbonnes in one of your postswhich is a reason I have considered them, aside from the fact that theyre pretty. So thanks for your reinforcement that I did the right thing! :-)

Nery, I put them in partial shade, yes. Have done pots in full sun before and they often fail due to the heat. I kept mine on the porch last summer and this one and they have flourished - a little sun but only early in the day. I will try the same this time as well but my intention is to plant in the ground in the fall. I do water once or twice a week.

Carltons are great - also if you like huge yellow daffs - even better than Carlton, much better actually, is Gigantic Star - good through zone 9. You will LOVE it. B&B has it. I have lots of them.

Wonderful pics, wicker :-)

Moby, my body is trembling from that dark one. I HAVE to have it. where do we get it? do we have to go across the pond?????

S, I'll ck out Gigantic Star, thanks.

That big dark one looks a whole lot like 'Rio Negro' in mass planting. Maybe I am losing my mind too...Lol. The are all so lovely!

wickerparker...I am soooo very glad you posted those pictures. It looked like it was just awesome. You captured it very, very well. I have always heard it was a flower show to die for. Did you stick around long enough to see who the winners were?

I have a FFO on Bonbini and was disappointed. The pictures I saw showed a delicate pink marking, but in real life I thought it looked faded rather than delicate. Of course, it may very well be that it will get stronger with subsequent blooms. There is no pleasing me today, lol.

Oh no! I ordered it through the co-op and also through Faraway Flowers. Both photos looked the same but they may have been standard stock photos provided to sellers.

I ordered Gran Paradiso, but this doesn't look like it. Any ideas out there?

I can't believe I didn't get the marker for that dark one in the photo. It was even better -- darker -- in person. A voice in my head is saying it's Sumatra, but on the other hand there were a lot of lilies at that stand I'd never heard of before and those were the ones I was mostly trying to get pictures of. Sorry.

This was my second Chelsea visit. It's pretty great. Have to admit my heart was pounding as we walked through the gates. There are loads of people there, which makes it hard to get a good look at the display gardens much of the time, but then I really do prefer the pavillion where you can get close to the plants and talk to the plant people. We did see who the winners were, but it was hard to be in England that week and not know -- there were tv broadcasts from Chelsea every night. Not a rose opened without the BBC reporting on it. The English are surely garden crazy. Looking back at the pictures, I think what I enjoy most are the giddy English faces in the background.

The RHS show I really want to see now is Hampton Court, which is in July. So we may start planning our UK family visits (hubby is a Brit) around that one.

Am posting a picture that certainly has nothing to do with lilies -- it's strawberries. Incredible scent. Wish you all could smell this one.

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Oh Laura!!! Those are fantastic pictures!! I love that peony picture. The peony and iris in that photo are wonderful. I also agree that we need to know who that dark lily is. If you have more pictures, please post them!! :) This is so much fun!! :)

All right, I'm up late sorting through the 600 photos we took on our trip, and I found some more lily porn. By coincidence, this first one shows Bonbini, which you guys were just talking about. And the second one shows Candy Floss, a pretty double.

Good night.

By the way, the pink marking on the bonbini is a little more striking on my original photo than on the lower resolution DG version, but not as dark as the picture on the Faraway website.

Okay, I now think that dark red lily is probably -- I would even say almost definitely -- Dark Sensation, which I noticed is in the Faraway Flowers catalog, fyi.

You can also see it in the new introductions section at http://www.hwhyde.co.uk These are the lily people who had the stand I took all the pix of.

It was much darker in person than it appears in either of these catalogs. My picture looks pretty accurate to my memory of it. Big, deep, rich flowers.

Good night, for real this time.

Glorious pics, wickerparker! Thanks so much for sharing! Did any of you notice 'Kushi Maya' at the top of the pic in this post?

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6632801

I thought it had the look of L.nepalense, and saw on the H.W.Hyde link above it is indeed a nepalense hybrid!

http://www.hwhyde.co.uk/flowers/lilies/nepalense_hybrids/introduction.htm

That Nepalense is gorgeous. I believe Ramona/Faraway Flowers is trying to get that one for next spring.

All so beautiful. I can almost smell those strawberries too! What a neat design too.

A Brit for you, huh? ^_^ wickerparker what a treat to have that for a trip to visit family. Gardens galore. How does the little one like all those flowers?

I think Hyde steals the show every year. Amazing plantspeople. Just amazing!

I am thinking Dark Sensation will be in high demand...LOL!

wicker, I'd say your pic of Bonbini is just as if I were looking at my own flower. Maybe the problem is that the white in the flower is not regular white but a vanilla white, thus dulling the center marking. Your pic definitely more accurate than the catalog pics.

Dark Sensation, huh? I'm in love AND lust.

I'll be back w/ pics of Bonbini, but first, trip to the vet.

Now I'm happy that I have a lot of Kissproof behind Bonbini and not all white lilies. (They are off to the right, as if it matters to anyone but me!)

I was wondering when someone was going to notice the nepalense. It was gorgeous. It's the one I would have walked off with if only had time to snatch one before making my getaway.

They don't allow small children in at Chelsea, which isn't such a bad deal. Can't say I minded a few hours without the adorable ball and chain. She didn't mind either, she was off eating ice cream and riding double decker buses with her aunties. She does have to spend a lot of time in gardens when we're over there, though, and she loves it. She's very sweet about humoring me anyway.

Oh my ... They are all so beautiful wickerparker. My wish list would be so long after one trip that I'd never be able to afford another trip over there!