Lilies: specie lilies; a new cycle has started!, 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Oh what have you done wallaby, giving me that link to the rare plants site, lol! Help! the lily virus infection has settled even deeper!
They have such a nice collection (not only lilies) of wonderful species and give such a good in-depth honest information on them.
The good thing is that many of these species like half-shade as I cannot offer them full sun. But I'll try to restrain myself for this year.
L. Xanthellum luteum is very pretty,

Interesting to know that the scales are making little bulblets even without being planted!

I have the impression that producing bulblets are more the rule than the exception with martagons, at least that's the case with my little collection.

Here's another pic from today from the first one i posted, now from another angle. Today there popped up another fat nose in the middle. The tallest from the bunch in front has been bitten through the stem and withered. What horrible frustration that must be if it had been grown and cuddled for 7 long years and then suddenly been destroyed!







There is even popping up a new fat nose from the one that has made the groupThe one that produced the bunch made n