Lets see New lilies sprouting #5

Mine looked more like the greener one. I like the other one too, just beautiful!

LOL on the pitchforks.

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I am hoping as it matures it will go toward the green. that was the color that was shown on The Lily gardens page and what attracted me to it.

Mine are two years old. Ice Caves is a strain, so there is going to be variability.

Oh. I didn't know that. what is a strain? Not a hybrid?

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your bee balm is gorgeous also.

boy you have good eyes. I had to go look again and then I saw it. Bee Balm has just been opening up for the last week. Gayfeather is aaaaallllmost there.

Website photos are sometimes misleading. This includes the better vendors as well. I always check Plant Files to see if a gardener has a photo of the plant in their garden. Those candids are more true.

I always have that extra burst of pride when my flowers match the package. Often it does not happen for me the first year. The lilies are generally reliable; peonies not so much, but I love them anyway.

Ge, you're up with the roosters!

Hybrid lilies are offered as cultivars and as mixed strains. You can buy a cloned cultivar such as 'Enchantment', with all the bulbs producing identical plants, or bulbs of a strain such as Citronella which is a 'grex', a number of clones of the same or very similar parentage with many characteristics in common, but not producing identical flowers. The Lily Garden lists quite a few 'strains'.


Here's the description from The Lily Garden of Ice Caves

Tetra! ‘Ice Caves’ () has fragrant, snowy white flowers, with a semi-recurving “sunburst” form that emphasizes icy green throats. This tetraploid strain has long-lasting flowers with tremendous substance!
4 to 5 feet (and eventually taller), early to mid July.
Special Price!
ICE Each $15.00 3/$40.00

I'm crossing my finger on your remaining Ice Caves. They are much too beautiful to lose. It may just be the weird year. My Whiye Henryis opened over a four week period this year. Anastasia three. This has never happened before. I'm crossing my eyes too!.

I thought mine were done early and was equally surprised.

laaaahhhhh. I love White Henrii.Its the first lily I ever bought from B&D and I wasnt gardening very much in those days.
I wanted to replicate my grandmothers lilies and just chose that one. Hers were actually Black Dragons and Regals as I found out 10 years later.
My fingers are crossed for Ice Caves too.

White Henryi was an afterthought for me. Every year I realize that I have forgotten what a spectacular lily it is. Perhaps because it is easy to find and inexpensive. But the color! The strength, the scent! Every year it yells at me from the garden - hey you! Come over here!

My mistake guys. I reread my message and realized how it sounded. I only have one Ice caves. But I have several other lilies in the front garden that have yet to bloom. I understand now about the strains. Interesting. I have seen the same sort of thing in dahlias such as patches that has anything from almost white flowers to a even mix of white with fuschia tips. Kaiser Wilhelm came out this year rather different from the original that was much more red. Now they are mostly yellow. It would appear that I have lost Nellie Broomhead and White Dawn in the winter hold over process.

I'm always amazed that the dahlias bloom true to the picture. I like that they keep blooming until the first frost.

Absolutely. Seems like they take forever to even bud up, but then they just keep on blooming til they wilt from frost. I have huge ones in the ground this year. Bigger than I have ever had. Not sure why. Even the Hockley Maroon in the ground has made huge bushes about 36" tall and about that around. Al Alamand is at least 48" tall and 36-40 around. It would be interesting to see pictures of full bushes in addition to blossom pictures to show relative size in different gardens.

White Henryi is gorgeous, especially next to the ornamental grass, Donna.

Are their any rules on pollinating Lilies?

A subject best started on a separate thread, rosecats. There are lots of "rules".

Maybe start here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/617079/?hl=hybridize

Red Dutch

the fragrance is wonderful!

Grand Cru

Bold color!

My Grand Cru are quite tall (almost 36") compared to the others like Star Fighter which is only about 20".

Elodie

soft Peach-Pink tones

Tigrinum Splendens lily

Opening soon!

Oh, this is great! More lilies. Please keep them coming. They are gorgeous.

My greenhouse is full of Sorborne Orientals - some blooming, many still in bud.

anyone like to trade?
LOL

I would love to trade but don't have enough of any one to spare any. Maybe next year. Your lilies are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

Will trade for Globemaster, or any other alliums...
or perennial plants such as bleeding hearts, ferns, etc

Rio Negro

Last year they were covered in snow.
snow is coming next week...which is normal

I guess it is because you are so high up? Haven't been to Tahoe in almost 50 years. Saw Sammy Davis, Jr. at one of the big shows, and Bill Cosby in a side bar. Your lilies are certainly lovely.

Sorbornne Oriental Lilies blooming in Greenhouse this morning.

Such a lovely scent.

I love lilies so much that I planted some in containers and placed them around the front and back yard and given many to friends and neighbors to grow.

I learned a valuable lesson - Not to plant any lilies directly into the ground due to voles.
I lost all of my Black Beauties, many Rio Negros, all American Lilies, and more of my treasured lilies.

So I now plant in clay pots with other perennials that are planted directly into the ground and cover the tops with wire cloth until they start growing.

Here is a photo of some Sorbornnes nestled nicely with blue Hostas.

Quintessence OT lily

Received as a gift from a dear friend.

Samur lilies in mailbox.

Photo was taken last month. The bulbs have divided and formed new ones in the container.
I started with only one large bulb a few years ago. Now I have 3 or more from the same bulb.
My mail carriers smile as they deliver the mail. :-)

Lovely lilies. I have good luck with containers. Asiatic lilies tend to form new bulbs or "spread" fairly readily. I'll bet the carriers enjoy them!

I've been to Lake Tahoe in June, and the weather was cool. How cold does it get in the winter?

We're getting snow tonight/tomorrow 6-10 inches above 7,000 feet.
We're at 6500, so we'll get a good dusting or more.

It gets below freezing through the hardest winter nights as the storms rush in.

I brought into the sunroom many of my lilies that I planted in containers.
Their scent is so sweet and it travels throughout the house.

I'll post more photos later today of Tiger Edition and Tiger Woods that just opened yesterday.

Tiger Woods this morning.

Tiger Edition this morning

They are gorgeous. I had the opposite problem earlier in the year, with lilies being scorched by the heat. I dug them up and brought them into the house. It was Crystal Blanca, shorter cousin of Casa Blanca, so you can imagine how wonderful that was.

The Tiger Edition (on the right) had a bid of frost on the buds so the flowers are not as developed as they should be. Kinda looks funky, but stills smells so nice.