I'll manage a pic tomorrow [Christmas day] Lorn foliage is very thick!

Curious to know more about Terracotta Warrior! *Waits patiently*

I'm really looking forward to reading the background on Tiger Babies. I wonder if more than one variant has reached Australia, or if all the Tiger Babies here will be identical.... It's such a gorgeous flower. Something about the synergy between the spotting and subtle gradation of colour across the petal - it's just splendid whether you spy it from a distance or look closely:



Some more pics to share for Christmas, starting with a couple of martagon seedlings:



'Red Life' - dubious dutch trade nomenclature - I really wondered if I was buying a dud... but this is a wonderful strong lily. I'm really impressed with the size, substance and form of the flowers, and I love the steep pedicels!:



And another beautiful addition - this is Night Flyer in bud:

Those arrow-straight pedicels give a vary angular sense to the entire structure. Love the dark stems, and a little more true red would certainly qualify it as a "Christmas" lily.

I love the graceful pedicel on your orange marty seedling ~

They're all pretty aren't they. I'm partial to that shade of red in Red Life. Love seeing the scenery in the background of Red Life; so nice and green, in such contrast to a all white Midwest with temps at or below 0'F this morning.

Beautiferous!

Regarding tiger babies; it's a trumpet crossed with a standard tiger lily right? I'm looking foward to seeing my first blooms in my garden. I believe I got it from B&D.

Tiger Babies is all Asiatic.
Parentage as listed in the Lily Register:
'Pink Tiger' (Woodriff) x mixed pollen of pink and white Asiatic Hybrids

I see also that Judith Freeman (the hybridizer) introduced it as a strain, and not a clone. In the old Lily register it is listed as a grex, and I guess the term grex can have subtle differences depending on what it is applied to.

Lykkegaard Pink Tango-Oystein!

Thanks folk.

It would be good to see how the marts develop over a few settled years in the garden - they haven't had a chance yet to show themselves. After making a special bed and finally planting them out last winter, I've discovered I have to move house this year. I have no idea when I'll have a garden to call my own again where special species can have just the conditions they need and no disturbance (I'm feeling especially sorry for my poor L. szovitsianum seedling - approaching 9 years old, dragged form pillar to post and never a flower, but it still doesn't die on me)....

Love the Red Life shade! Some shades of red can be so tricky to capture. I kept trying to get Hiawatha right, but it's just so glossy - the most beautiful lily red I've seen. In reality it is so much more beautiful than this, but here's a misleading photo anyway:



And views of Night Flyer, colour conveyed much more accurately, though it can appear 'blacker' in life:

Seedling trumpets coming on fast now!

Now here's one I wish I had never bought...



There's some resemblance to this, I guess http://www.vws-flowerbulbs.nl/...

But where are the beautifully spaced flowers on long, perfectly arranged pedicels? Hmm?

Bleh... I was looking forward to using a 'pink' tetra in my hybridising, but there's no way I can subject the next generation to such a badly formed inflorescence and murky colour. Dusky coral, I thought - nice! Nope....

Sorry Pearl Loraine, I'm not impressed. In fact Red Life is everything Pearl Loraine isn't.

Pearl Lorraine, Isnt nice ,, I sold all of it and any other imposters under another name..Pink Dream is similar, but lighter

*nods*

Mine will be finding a new home. Or I'll eat it

I really can't tell the difference between Pink Dream and Pearl Jessica. Are they the same? Anyway, there's something almost charming about the misshapen flowers, but not enough to redeem a plant that makes such a dreadful inflorescence:



I seem to have acquired quite alot of them - every stem was like this... a kind of everted ladder

Time for something pretty!



I'm happy with Patricia's Pride. Is it always an umbel? Not usually a fan of umbels, but the pedicels are nice and long and a beautiful colour, and the flowers well placed, so I totally forgive it.

Black spider?..When I saw it as Pats Pride ,I Thought, You scammers Anyway,, Go the Christmas!.. Hope you had and Childrens had a great day.. I did and am very much merry , now.. Cocky livened up the Cemetary this morning , with some of his quotes and has another 2 girfriends.....[Human]....Big white ol" Swooner".. man he really made a lot of people laugh on Christmas Day there

Lorn., Sorry I was a bit long winded, I got lost.. :blinking:[Bottled Brandy Bite] Here's a couple of shots of TCW for you

Tesselaar's Red Velvet 5 stems of this and 5 correct Red Velvets

A very fine Canterbury Trumpet

Kind of liked that spotted mistake bulb!

IT'S TRUE! There really can be such a thing as a NICE MISTAKE! Rarely--but it can happen!

Anthony--what I find so interesting about Terracotta's foliage is how the long, densely populated leaves drape downward and then begin a gentle upward turn near the tips. I think Terracotta has the longest leaves (in proportion to overall stature) of any lily out there!

Oh, that's a nice uniform release of yellow on that Canterbury!