Lilies: Lilies a year from seed in flower., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
My wonder compost is having to make do with donated garden soil from my neighbour, I use so much I have run out of the larger and sharper 'river soil'. Hoping the drains dry up this year so I can get more, garden soil is finer and just not the same even though it's sandy.

It looks like I have a long wait before I repot my hypogeals, lol, must be all the fun I have to look forward to which makes me do it. A repot always does the trick for any bulb, even if you just put the whole thing into a larger pot. For me though with vine weevil about I will need to take them out altogether. I thought I had just about beat that but not so, it only takes one to make many, but this was in my neighbour's greenhouse. I've been having a clean up of old pots too, finding a few.

A mild winter here has been good for some things, just to be knocked back by hard frost and a cold spring! Our seasons are all upside down, confuses me and the plants. I have had some Electra tulips increasing in my hosta bed for years, they didn't grow this year, so it's either the Bulb Fly of which I had all four subspecies last year, or our cold summer last year.

You're a little ahead on hypogeal knowledge than me, but some of mine did grow leaves last year. Maybe one or two have failed to grow again this year though, but most have. One lot I sowed this year has a leaf too.

A preview of L. centifolium, the front one has 2 out of three buds making, the other two still have three each.