Lilies: The dawning of.........., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Definitely astrological! The star signs fit our characteristics too!

It was the 'thunk that could work' bit that was throwing me, too late for serious thinking! I will have to study that chart well, this becomes more interesting all the time. Looking at it I see that pardalinum ONLY points to oriental. That part of Bellingham hybrid did the job! Not sure what else it has in it.

So what were the chances I would have one next to Dizzy, and still in flower, and have the pollinators. It will have been the butterflies and Silver Y moths that did it, they were always visiting them. The Brimstone butterfly kept returning to Bellingham, not sure if it went to Dizzy, and they had to be hatched at the right time. I did see Red Admiral butterflies on Dizzy. The Silver Y moth feeds in the day, the only other one is the Hummingbird Hawk moth and they have been around for a lot longer than than they are supposed to be, I read they are a later migrant, the season may have encouraged them earlier, or they are breeding here. They have been seen briefly the last 2 years but this year I saw them a lot in that area, but only saw them briefly on the dahlia le Baron and Phlox Nicky, I have 2 young plants in that area. They may have visited the lilies, they do like very scented flowers. I was surprised to see the Brimstones on Bellingham, there was no scent but they seemed to be getting nectar from the raised lumps. I think it was the Silver Y moths, they were on everything.

Whatever, I have a seed pod! ONE only, 2 Dizzy lilies both had 4 flowers each.

It's in a fairly open area and does get reasonable sun, the ground is also sandy soil. We are having VERY warm weather for this time of year, back up to 22C, 25 the other day, the next ten days are going to be still warmish and 12C or so at night. Mostly our weather doesn't change for worse seriously until end of October, it can be mild right into December. We had the bad one last year, hoping this year will be a good autumn. I feel lucky!

Going to try to post a pic, the last one I tried implied there was a photo to enlarge but it wasn't there!