Lilies 2010 - Part 4

Strawberries & Cream

Eyeliner

your pics are great. jealous that you have centerfold and Fata Morgana, which I can't grow here to save my life.

Strawberries and Cream...for dessert:)))

Strawberries and cream a color echo for either fucia or red. How great is that?
Pirl I will find a knob and stake it somehow ,thats brilliant.

Iowa Rose - Absolutely Beautiful

ge. Awesome is an Aurelian hybird, here's Buggy's description: Inter-Divisional lilies are seedlings form a complex cross involving species and cultivars from different divisions in the Lily classification. Divisions are groupings of lily species that are closely related, inter-divisional lilies are not closely related and do not cross easily. The ancestry consists of various Aurelian species and cultivars and L. speciosum, L. japonicum and L. rubellum in the Oriental division.

You are so sweet to instruct me. I always said if I could learn that stuff I would have been a doctor. I do appreciate the information. It truely is a wonderful lily.
Maybe I can come close with someting else.

Black Swallowtail deep into a Fireking lily.

Jack - sublime color echoes!

thanks pirl
Speckled lilies Champaign and Skyfire

Love the speckled ones.

Lady Alice

Queen Kong

July Mint

NOID from a mix from Buggycrazy.
Wish I had known her longer.

I agree Jo. We can only hope she will resume business again someday.

I too hope she returns. I probable accumulated 75% of my lilies from her.

AVACADO is starting to bloom. This one is too vigorous for my small space so I will be looking for new homes for these bulbs. But it is a nice one! This is a short baby stem bloom. The main clump is around 6 feet tall.

TRIUMPHATOR...not one of its best performances this year.

BLOOD TIGER

Group of POLKADOT BIKINI

RED DUTCH looks good this year!

I love all these lilies...Polka Dot Bikini is an 'awwww, how cute' lily:)

that queen kong is just pure drama. I luv it!

Nanny, my Avocado is blooming too. Isn't she yummy?

I took this pic late this evening and I couldn't see the tag. But I know I've seen several lily lovers post this one. That is why I got it. Tiger lily?

Vossner I have CasaBlancas with a size that is half what it was last year. The lower leaves are yellowing ,stem is thin and buds look awful.These lilies are 3 years old.I have others in another part of the garden that are doing well.
We tossed horse manuer on the sick Blancas last fall ,could too much fert. be the problem?
OOOOPS

Here it is.The lilies are in the lower right corner
http://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/TodaysLiliesJune24

I have read conflicting info about horse manure, some saying it doesn't get as hot as cow/pig manure others saying that it is just as hot, especially if it's raw.

I would sort of guess that in your case, the yellowing could be from the manure, but I can't say w/ certainly b/c I don't use it.

I will wai a year before I toss them.

I would dig them out now and look at the bulb. Could be fusarium or some other fungal disease that you don't want propagating in your soil. High nitrogen promotes the problem. and finally, Casa Blancas are easily availble and cheap, why risk it?

I'm on it.Thanks

Tell us what the bulb looks like. Are scales falling off? Is it rotting at the base? We can all learn from this.

I just dug them.There are no new roots and the bulbs look musht at the base where the roots usually are.

Hey how about a photo! LOL! Could they have received too much water (more than your others)?

Here you go.2 diff. CB bulbs

Thanks. I'm no expert on lily disease but I was reading about it in Ed McRae's book, Lilies: A Guide for Growers and Collectors. He talks about the need to avoid high nitrogen fertilizers and if you use manures, it must be well composted and used only as a top mulch. But you say the plants had the problem before you added the manure so I am thinking more along the lines that they got too much water (a lily can be susceptible and the one next to it not). Too much water and heat can also promote fusarium.

I would not plant a lily in that spot again for a couple of years. Stick something else there :-)

Transplanting an OP.in the fall.

I just love AVACADO...she is just to happy here and I don't have enough room for her!