Rosepoint Lace -first co-op bloom!!

Beautiful but a tad short. I'm guessing I planted them a bit deep and they'll be taller next year.

That's lovely! Fragrance? In the background...is that a cow or a cocker?? hee hee Looks like he's sniffing the flower!

cocker - good 'ole Barney, he's my sidekick!

Oh Laura....that one is lovely!!! I had no idea it was yellowish in color! So elegant.

Actually you're better to plant the bulbs too deep than not enough especially on taller growing ones. Lilies need to be well anchored for all those heavy blooms plus they will develop bulbets along the stem underground often so deeper gets you more offshoots in the long run. The rule of thumb is 3 times the depth of the bulb size. Some of those coop bulbs were huge!! I couldn't dig deep enough in my hard clay to get some as deep as the recommendation!!!

Very little fragrance - I'd say it's more creamy than yellow. Second one opened today. (Above opened yesterday!) The stalk is only 14"-15" high - sure hope it gets a little more vertical next year! lol (gotta bend down low to check out the smell!)

oh brenda, you better do some reading on soil amendment for your lily bulbs. i'm afraid your bulbs will eventually rot in that clay your talking about. they like very well draining soil.
debi z

Debi - lots of peat!! I buy it by the bale here in good ole clay Kansas! Any hole around here is backfilled with a mix of peat, top soil and manure/humus (whichever I have) and usually a bit of Osmocote for good measure. Cow manure is my best friend. I tilled up a new bed after I moved here as it had gone to weeds from the previous owners. That's the best bed I have....such dark, black rich soil there now!

brenda,
i'm worried about you girlfriend. cow manure is your best friend?
fellow d.g. gardeners i think we need to help out brenda here. anyone have time to be her best friend. i don't imagine much would be involved here. if you have a better personality and more to offer than a pile of composted manure, then please apply. ;-)

i'm starting a new thread. i don't want to hi-jack koogers...

LOL!!

hijack away - always ready for a new ride!

kooger were you standing on your head to get that turk's picture? I like these hat shaped blooms.

darn near!! lol

Kooger - the contortionist in training! LOL!

That's why I like the display on my digital camera!! No weird contortionist movements here! Just tilt the lens on it's swivel and look at the display and shoot when the pic is right! Only difficulty is making sure I don't have a ton of the sky in the background causing the pic to wash out. It's an old CoolPix 950 from Nikon, but it sure does the job!

These opened this weekend - didn't do a very good job!

here's the silk road...

and MIL Easter lily from 2003...

That's the sky background I'm so familiar with!!!

What's the white one with the orange pollen? How cool that lemon-yellow throat is!

You're up late Kooger! I'm off to bed soon (been saying that for 2 hrs!)

I'm a bit puzzled by 2 of my co-op bulbs. One is leucanthum or something like that, and I have to dig the other name out of the mulch, but they have the same colour! I'm going to look at the co-op thread and check out their catalog. I kinda think it's Sarabande because I thot I ordered only white, pink and red - not real partial to the yellows. I believe Sarabande was my bonus bulb. :)

edit: got it figured out. Leucanthum and Statuesque are somewhat similar and those two are next to each other looking like twins. Guess I didn't pick very well!

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Well, it gives a nice full bloom look!!! I like it! So the pic of the white ones are Leucanthum and Statuesque both? Do you prefer one over the over for any reason?

NOt sure which one this pic is - they are quite close in colour. Will check in a bit and see if the blooms are still open.

Kooger love your lilies--but do I have to smell like cow manure to be your friend? I didn't know that was an "Iowa thing".

Wanda - that manure thing is a 'Brenda' thing - all we get is pig smell from across the road here. Yuck! I grew up on a dairy farm so always find the pig (hog - if you're from IA, I hate that word!) smell more nauseating. :)

Blooms -been pondering that camera thing - that works great for taking the pic but just how are you going to avoid getting down to their level to smell it? lo-o-ong straw???? lol

watered this am but forgot to check on the lilies - duh!!!

"FORGOT TO CHECK ON THE LILIES!!" Did she say she FORGOT TO CHECK ON THE LILIES?? I feel swoonish and faint.......

oh boy, now I'm gonna be quartered and roasted - hey, it's a menopausal moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's 92 deg. out there!! And humid!!! (what other excuse can I come up with?)

The yellow-throated one pictured above is definitely 'Statuesque'. Four blooms open now on 'Silk Road'. What a beauty!!

oooooo, pretty pretty kooger. Is that a maroon and cream combo?

Yeah, that would be close - maybe closer to white - gonna try get a better pic later.

Gotta love those lilies...

Got a couple more pix of the 'Silk Road'. That is one awesome lily!!!

one more - of two...

how? how? how? can you possibly forget to check your lilies?
even franklin comes over to my chair when i'm at the computer or reading and he starts to beg. well after i rattle off questions, even go outside and i get no responce, when i say "wanna go to the garden?" he'll plop down, start wagging that tail of his and head for the door. :-)
;-)
debi z

Stunning!! Love Rosepoint Lace and Silk Road is gorgeous also.

Silk Road? Does it smell as dreamy as it looks?

yes! yes! yes! and it is a tall one.
this is a link to see a picture of them in a growers, the lily garden's field. just go down a bit on the page.
http://www.thelilygarden.com/pages_lilies/orienpet_1.html

OMG! WOW! (Writing furiously...)

Just 2 blooms will perfume my entire downstairs! And you can smell them from 4-5ft away in the garden, more if the breeze is right!

Hmmm. Would that conteract my DH boots and dogs after a hunting trip? Darn, wrong season.

it's definitely a keeper!! This one is from Brenda's co-op and it has 4 buds on it - the most of any first year lilies I've ever grown. Absolutely gorgeous blooms - doesn't that pic in the field of lilies just blow you away! That must be what heaven looks like to us fanatics!!!! :)

yep, i didn't get any pictures of mine. :-( but i was lucky enough to get it from wayside at 70% off in may of 2003. this year there was 6 buds.

Here is what you can look forward to next year. 15 flowers!

WOW! Gotta Have it!