Some martagon section seedlings, all first blooms.
This one is only a foot high, and I am quite surprised how well it has done, since I only planted it in the garden in early November last year. (very very late for my season, and especially for a martagon) But it came up anyway, thank goodness – no sulking. A cross of two of my own seedlings, yielding a nice, but not special offspring so far:
06B-06-1 x (Amelita x Super Tsing) Except for the tepal backs, this one suspiciously looks like 06B-06-1. We'll see how it turns out in the future, but it might have grew from apomictic seed.
Its sister seedling was going to bloom, too, but it broke off in the storm, or so I thought…
I had some local lily society members come over to look at my marts, and as I was went to show this blooming one, it was snipped of about an inch above the soil line. (Darn squirrels, I think, and that's what happened to the sister, too.) Here were the two little tykes coming up earlier in the season.
Now I have some martagon section lilies unexpectedly blooming in pots. From a previous cross of Amelita and Super Tsing back in 2008, those offspring were so incredibly diverse for such old cultivar parents. I swear I had taken every precaution against pollen contamination, but still it made me wonder…. So I did the cross again in 2015. Only two blooming so far, but I am getting similar results.
First day of bloom and four days later.
And this one's seed germinated Immediate hypogeal. Definitely more vigorous, with two blooming stems for its maiden bloom (still in a pot) and a third non-blooming whorl of leaves.
Another from cross of seedlings:
And one more in the garden, first bloom. (Last year it would have had 3 flowers, but the stem broke.) A cross of one of the first martagons I ever grew from seed and Brotsing. It's the same parents as my first post at the top of this thread. Same cross, different year. Smaller flowers, so far, but oh so neat!
