2009 Lily Blooms #10 and the fireworks continue!

'July Mint'

'Northern Sensation'

I'll let you know what they say when they reply. If they don't reply, I'll consider cancelling the order I already placed with them for this fall (on principle).

They are usually really great at their customer service, from my experience. But do give them a few days, seems like open gardens are happening right now, which will likely make time tight.

OK. Thanks for the info.

Bonbini is blooming here today.

Holland Beauty is also blooming they both have very large blooms.

Oh my gosh - I stay away for a couple of days and look what is blooming!! Diann, I don't think your lilies look like tired at all! I just love the "Rosselini" Diann/Tracey - I have that one also but don't remember any blooms this year. I am glad your Rococos have done so well. Donna and Tracey, and Ticker I know yours is coming along as well. Diann, your fasciated Red hot is cool and Tracey, love the Donato! :-) Among many others - heck i like them all!

I am really disappointed in that I planted several of the leftover "Silk Roads" I had ordered from Wayside and they were not Silk Road at all but some white LO-looking lily. Not that they're not pretty but not what I odered. Fortunately the majority of the ones I gave away at the IA Roundup I got from Lily Garden and I feel better that those at least were the real thing. For anyone who got an imposter, I am sorry and I will make it right!!

Donna, how did John behead your Delphinium? LOL - sounds like an interesting story!

Marlina, love your little garden around your tree. Everything looks so vibrant. I am afraid the heat has taken its toll on most things here thoguh as of late we've gotten some relief.

daylilydreams your 'Bonbini' is stunning!!! Thats the darkest ive seen that pink, beautiful.

That Giggle Button is so cute!

Bonbini has never jumped out at me...but now that is very cool!

Here is my Bonbini but it is mostly shade. Must move them into the sun so they will color up. BEV

dragonfly, on my bonbine the marking was even lighter than on yours, but 2nd bloom improved. Mine is am sun and protected by a shrub rose. Lovely pics everybody

Mine get am sun too. BEV

Thanks for the nice comments. I too enjoy seeing how lilies grow from all over the place. 'Bonbini' seems to hold color here in this summer's frigid temps.

'Maywood' was gonna get the boot this year, as I always get this horribly washed out pink. But it must have heard me. Really, I am certain it is the cooler temps, but she bought herself another year.

Another from the Buggy Crazy 'Queen Strain'

And this is the fourth seedling from the Dotcom mix. I only got one bloom and something decided to take a small bite out of it. Still excited though that I got another bloom, chewed or not.

DC #4

This is the first year for Bonbini in my garden as you can tell from the photo not all the blooms have the same shade of pink. I did put a natural lawn fertilizer on my garden that had alfalfa as part of the formula. The weather here has been quite cool which seems to intensify colors. I hope Bonbini looks this good in years to come. The blooms stopped me in my tracks because the pink pattern is so outstanding here in my garden.

Stevie!

Yes, Cute Yard Boy was supposed to be pruning our viburnum dentatums. I shouldn't have turned my back. I come back to find that he has not mastered the aesthetics of pruning, and that my delphinium is bent in half. Not to mention the crushed alliums. He went for a bamboo pole and tomato tape to prop up the delphinium but was still in got great chastisement!

As for Wayside, I order, very expensively, some lilium candidum that turned out to be some of the cheapest lilies on earth, lilium regale album. I let them know that I wanted a credit on my charge card, not Wayside credit. They can be very good, or terribly disappointing.

Tracey, your near reject, Maywood, is lovely. She must have heard you talking about her.

And Daylilydreams, your Holland Beauty is exquisite. Where did you get that honey?

Donna

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Our 'Bonbini' from the co-op. It was so beautiful!

Wow, was that from the Edine co-op? It's beautiful. :)

I like the Pompi from the coop. BEV

Pink Cream By Buggycrazy

I do love that Pink Cream. :)

Yes, Ticker!

Gorgeous, Mainiac.

Yeah, that Pink Cream is nice. :)

Oooh, cool, Pirl. I'll have to go out and locate mine.... :) I've been stuck in the spackle and paint mine that I've missed most of my lilies this year....

Clearly, I missed the boat on ordering from BuggyCrazy! When does ordering usually open for lilies?

Around August 1st Buggy Crazy opens for lilies.

Good to see your season opening up Mainiac. I know you've been waiting a long time for this ;)

Yeah, Ramona, are you guys supposed to get snow later today? :) I think we are. :) LOL

Does anyone have a name for this one? Looks like something from Buggy...

The coloring looks like Good Night but the form looks like Menton. But with the pretty reverse, Plum Peach, perhaps? http://buggycrazy.vstore.ca/product_info.php/pName/plum-peach-soldout/cName/lily-bulbs-asiaticla-lilies

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A new use for lily stems. My morning glories have found my deadheaded regales.

DonnaMack got HB on a spring Dave's Garden Co-op.

Regarding the "new use":
My Aristolochia tomentosa and variegated (annual) hop vine loves them, but I am not so crazy about it. LOL

A word of caution tho ~ I let MG's grow up my lilies last year, the foliage completely occluded the stem and they dropped all their leaves.

Daylily, thank you.

I hear you Moby. I only let them grow up regale stems (not the Casa Blancas nearby, which haven't bloomed yet.). But they can be rampant. They made heir way across 30 feet of yard (on the north side of my property, if you can imagine) and they like to climb my thalctrum rochebrunianun and polemonium white. I have to untangle them, or tear them out, regularly because they don't play nicely.

"they don't play nicely" love that description!! But No, they don't, they are very 'bossy', reminds me of my next door neighbor.

The only thing my neighbor reminds me of is Amorphophallus. Thoroughly rotten and looks/acts like a ... nevermind.

Edited to add: Sorry ~ rough week with the rotten neighbor. ugh...

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Really, vines are only good in shrubs, and only certain vines at that.

On that happy note, how about a little Eudoxia? :)

Leftwood, I have an Aristolochia vine that is my worst enemy in the garden. Not sure it is the same as your, but after a few years, mine starting sending up shoot 6-8 ft away from the fence where I plant it. It winds around my liles and grows up into my daylilies. One of my many goals this fall is top kill it all. Sadly, I have it in two locations and I don't think it will ever all be gone. Mine never flowers. Hope yours is a nicer one.

Here is King Kong. It never seems to like to look the right direction for photos.

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