My Satisfaction is blooming fast.

Satisfaction is beautiful,mine bloomed and was baked in a few days. Nice to see yours.

It was beautiful when we were there, though, Jo, so you can take pride in that.

I just bought another jug of deer repellent.
They are eating the pole beans in places I didnt think they woud go.
I want to save the phlox.
Nearly all my lilies are deadheaded ( by me) except for Black Beauty and Elise and some Altaries.

Gold Henry

Not even August yet, and i've had ,Arabian Red, Pink Giant and Lanzorote, breach the surface of the potting mix

What is breaching?
I found a bulb this spring that had come to the top and formed dozens of bulbletts. I dug it and replanted it.

I just might get up to date on photos tonight...

Here is one of my favorite Asiatic lilies, Alexy:


George Slate and Morden Butterfly hanging out together:


Trogon:


Harlequin strain, purchased from MZ Bulb, tiny flowers:


Pensacola, Arbatax and Japanese iris Chiyo-No-Haru, getting to know each other :


More Arbatax, I like this one a lot:


A nice little Asiatic seedling from Ed McRae:


Pink Champagne, lots of bulbils:


Brushstroke, new this year:


Tetraploid trumpet strain White Flares:


Tetraploid trumpet Flugelhorn #1:


Caravan and an F2 seedling from Sim's pink edged yellow trumpets:


Ortega; I think I forgot to stick something in the ground when I planted it:

Nice lilies,l especially the trumpets.

Just beautiful, pard!

WOW Beautiful

I really like 'Arbatax' too. I couldn't believe how perfect it looked at my mom's house. I mean AMAZING! By the time it bloomed here the heat and drought were already in place, it looked good, but not to its potential.

Lovely lilies, loving Moredn Butterfly with George Slate. What a nice pairing

Thanks for sharing your pretties ~ they are so refreshing in this ugly weather.

Refreshing--Moby, that's very appropiate! Connie, your weather seemed to be about the best of anywhere this summer. You've got a beautiful, healthy looking crop of lilies. I'd have to say,too, that Sims pink edge F2 has some beautiful color blending. They're all pretty!

So far it has been a nice summer in the Willamette Valley. At least we haven't been hit with a heat wave (yet). No useful amount of rain either. Our rain will return in late September into October and that is reliably predictable. I don't water my lilies much during the summer and they seem to be quite drought tolerant. They do tend to be shorter with this regimen though.

Yes, shorter and more sturdy stemed. I'm not a supporter of watering much at all--only in dire circumstances (I call it being on life support). I am a very, very strong believer in heavy mulching and this summer, my mulching really served me well. It kept my soil temperature down too! I think it got up to 78' F one day but most of the time it runs between 66-73. But I will water about 10 days before blooming if they need it and again soon after blooming if it's dry. Luckily, I got 2.12 inches of rain overnight Wednesday here over a nine hour period--a real good soaker so that is just what the lilies needed and the timing is perfect for the bulb growth. But, leading up to this point, all of us here in the Midwest will tell you this summer has been a real stinker and something else to deal with. And not everybody got that rain that I got, so I am very, very lucky! What a feeling!

I bet all those vegetable gardens that got rained on were happy too!

Mulch is something I'm always short on. I had pine needles before my tree went down and they were enough for the garden area around it. I have to go out and buy bags (and bags and bags) of stuff and the fact is that rarely happens! At least we don't get real deep freezes here, at least not very often. And of course no meaningful snow in the winter.

Truly glad that you got rain, Lorn. If it were me, I think I'd cry happy tears. Weather folks are saying that we're in the worst drought in 56 years.

Moby, being an amatuer meteoroligist, I watch your weather as much as I do mine and I know your're in an awful bad way now; Gosh, this is something else! Us weather guys get a little 'goofy' when a storm of any significance comes along so you know I was up all night watching it!

Connie, my summertime mulch is wood chips--can't use those in winter here as they eventually freeze together and form a layer of wood chips in ice, literally. In the winter I use fresh cut pine boughs with a generous amount of oak leafs sprinkled over them. This mix also catches and traps drifting snow. All together, this provides probably more insuluation than I actually need but better to be safe than sorry.