Martagons

Adorable bunny!

I really like that Mrs B! Do they prefer shade???

Thanks Mags, he's loves bananas.

Yes, shade for Mrs. B.

Somehow missed the white martagon the first time around -- what a beauty.

Frankly, I don't see anything wrong with letting a hawk eat a rabbit. It's much better than just shooting it. But . . . . those sure are cuddly ones you've all got pics of here.

Back to the martagons . . . .

This one I got as a seedling from Arrowhead Alpines. It was supposed to be Lilium x marhan, but is clearly not. And I am very glad about that, since this has become one of my favorites. It's a small martagon and the first to bloom, about a week before Claude Shride. Even so, as of this year it is no longer my first blooming lily of the season.

And the petal backs are equally interesting.

VERY pretty!

Love those pictures Lefty.

Very nice.

Well, as luck (?) would have it, I was taking a pic of my purple podded iris, and a little rabbit scurries past. But I got 'im. Took him a few miles out into farm country, as I drove into a sun shower. Parked and waited for the heavy rain to past, then let the bunny free. As I turned around to drive back, I saw the most vivid rainbow I have ever seen. Not a double, but it was so bright, and the red and violet bands were easily seen.

Here's ol' Claude Shride (martagon lily).

Your rainbow must have been quite beautiful and so too Claude Shride. And you did a good bunny deed there too!

I've seen some really outstanding martagons on this thread. . . I keep hoping mine will grow up to be like them.

Attiwaw

I want some Maragon Lilies!!! How much shade can they tolerate??? They are so georgeous!!! Oh yeah love the babu bunnies also. Wink, wink. Ronna

Love Claude...is it as tall as it looks?? 6 - 7 feet??


I think I need to clairify that these bunnies were bought at your local Country fair then let loose on the neighborhood. I befriended them, they were hungry and eating all my bird food!
They are not by any means "pets" really, they let me touch them on occaision but not totally wild either. I guess you'd call then semi-wild.
For the most part NO rabbits make it very long out here, the longest was 3 winters. Too many predators.....coyotes, dogs, cats, skunks, fox, hawks and eagles keep the population way down.

Like this guy, he's been M.I.A. for 2 days now, but he is a brazen little devil. so im not surprised. He's sitting in one of my flower beds that I needed to weed. Now im scolding him telling him he knows better and he just sat that until I tapped his butt to move!!

Pixie, these bunny stories of yours are cracking me up bigtime. They are so darn cute.

Wow I guess everyone has cute little rabbits LOL - actualy the one tat hangs out in our yard is more like a hare -

Love the "Brotsing" and "Claude" - and Lefty your martagons are great. I need to try some as well though not sure they put up with a hotter summer climate as well as other lily varieties.

Wicker, your hosta beds and lilies are gorgeous :-)

I'd say the tallest of that Claude Shride bunch is about 5 ft.

I don't think martagons would do well in the heat of TX, Steve. If you try them, I would expect them to show and grow for 2-3 months and be semi-dormant for the rest of the year. Pick the coolest spot you have, but still with good drainage.

I may look into selling some in the DG marketplace this fall. I tried donating a growing one with eight buds at our Rock Garden Society plant sale this spring. It had been in the pot for an entire year prior. It was a hard sell at $25. No worries about the bulb sulking a year before it comes up, a very large bulb (8 buds), and no shipping costs - and it was still a hard sell.

Here is my Claude Shride. New to me this year. It was planted last fall.

Maxine, remember this one? This is the one you sent me. :) It's a happy little guy. :)

Diann, your "Claude" is great - what a great shot!

Thanks for the advice, Leftwood - if I buy one to try, I will do as you suggest.

TwinLakes (Arlene) was so nice as to give me a L. Nepalense to try; I imagine the growing conditions required might be similar to the Martagons? At any rate, I put it in my hosta bed so it only gets some morning sun and not too much of that - is growing nicely so far so we'll see how it does.

How much shade can the maratgon lilies take? I do have several other lilies in part shade. Are they the same?????????? Ronna

Lilium nepalense is native to the mountainous regions in the Himalaya chain. So it never gets very hot. I would suspect location to the martagons in TX would be called for. Literature says they come up very late in the spring compared to other lilies, so be patient.

With martagons as with most plants, the farther north you go, the less shade is required for survival. Here in MN, you can even grow them in full sun, although by the end of the season foliage can be a bit bleached (and of course the soil is mulched). How much shade can they take when high temperature is not a factor? I'd say even full shade, as long as it is high shade or open shade. But you probably won't get the large trusses of flowers of more than 10 blooms.

Ticker, it looks as though there is some Lilium tsingtauense blood in that lily.

Yeah, that's what Max gave me. Lilium tsingtauense. I can just never spell it, let alone pronouce it. :) LOL

Ticker, yours looks much like mine, and what I thought was L. tsingtauense for a long time. Actually, the species has completely upright flowers, so ours are not true tsingtauense. Yours (and mine) are yet to be determined as of the actually parentange, but it is believed to be a natural cross of L. tsingtauense and L. distichum and/or meliodes, and given the name miquelianum by some.

Hmm, oh well, I won't be able to pronouce that either. :) But thanks for the information! :) LOL

L.hansonii

L. hansonii with a few delphiniums (never mind the weeds beyond the fence)

'Moonyeen'

Sue, that Attawaw is interesting.
Magnolia, I like the L. hansonii

Those are beautiful Mags!

Thanks...here's one I almost missed...quite cute..first year for me..
'Pink Attraction'

A birthday gift from a sweet friend..Ticker

Yay!! It grew and bloomed for you!! :)

It's really adorable. The stems are shorter than I expected, but the color is great.

I think Mag has more kinds of martagons than I do. But just wait until all my seedlings get to blooming . . . .

And eleven blooms on hansonii is quite a feat. Congratulations!

It is? A feat? Awwww shucks. Thanks.

This was a bulb (L. hansonii) from a co-op. It was the worst looking bulb I had ever seen, soft, mushy. You guys recommended that I plant it anyway. it showed little sign of life year one. Had a couple buds lopped off by the deer last year, perhaps aiding the bulb in giving it more energy for this year's growth. So happy to actually know that it made it and is so pretty blooming.

Thank you guys for your good advice. I almost put that bulb in the trash, seriously!

Whew, sure glad you didn't!

Lilium martagon 'Mrs. R. O. Backhouse', grown from scales.

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We should really be calling this thread the Martagon section Lilies, since we are including closely related lilies, namely distichum, hansonii, martagon, medeoloides and tsingtauense, that make up the Martagon section.

like Ticker, this is my so called Lilium miquelianum (a "made up" name to designate that natural cross.

This is the female flower form.

And this is the male form. (see the mustache?)

Now I wonder if I fooled anyone . . .

Of course there is no individual female or male flowers in lilies. With this particular cross, the overall shape of the flower depends on the random positioning of the petals in relation to gravity.

Do take note of the different bud form on these plants.

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Lilium 'Super Tsing', a cross between Lilium martagon and Lilium tsingtauense.

See how the buds have black tips? The stems are more black too.
(The background stems are L.m. 'Terrace City'.)