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This is cold hardy here in the Oregon coast range, survives cold wet winters in containers and in the cold, saturated clay soil.

A Japanese hybrid of L. longiflorum and L. auratum.

Fades to white in the slightest heat, very virus prone

This hybrid was never sold. It was sent to Hyde in England along with many more of my hybrids. They chose not to propagate any of my lilies. Now all of my lilies are extinct.

This was the only one of my lilies I ever named at first sight. I saw it out in the field the day it first opened, hundreds of feet away, and thought to myself, "I have to get down there and look at that. It is just stunning." And it was and is.

A strongly upfacing lily

not the least bit fragrant

NOT fragrant, I never had any fragrant LA's.

LA Hybrid

LA HYBRID

Said to be a cross of an Asiatic with L. henryi, certainly looks like it.

The real, or original Gran Paradiso has orange-red blooms with a distinctive set of bud "caps" over the tepals which are dropped when the blooms open, as seen in my old picture. I doubt there are any of the original ones on the market anymore. That characteristic was easily inherited and virtually all the seedlings I ever got from it as either parent had those bud caps.

This was a short lily, 2-3 ft tall.

A Woodriff/Strahm hybrid with huge red and white blooms, 3-4 ft tall.

Sibling of Stunning

Bethany was a grex, a seedling strain from Dimensions that were all very similar.