First day of Summer blooms here:
Chippendale


Peach Lace...


My favorite of the Tiny Series
'Tiny Bell'


My B&D test lily. It's like watermelon!




Belo Horizonte...no red hue on mine.


Couldn't resist L. hansonii blooming full as neighbors ;) Ignore the weeds


And finally..'Pink Attraction'

I just love those downfacing lilies! Beautiful, Tracey!

so exotic.

Thanks! I'm just happy to finally have lilies blooming. It's officially summer.

Mags, isn't that a martagon lily? I'll check my Belo Horizonte I think it is starting to bloom.

It is a martagon, 'Pink Attraction' you mean? It most certainly is. It really is so pretty!

Yeah, the mart. I love it!

Great pics, everyone!

Tracey, I don't think that is the yellow L. hansonii. WAAAAAY too many flowers per stalk, hansonii doesn't recurve that strongly, and do I detect some pink overtones (of which hansonii has none)?

Looks like Mrs. R. O. Backhouse, perhaps. I have 25 buds on one of mine right now. This pic from a previous year:

Great lilies.

My summer's day openers
Lady AliceBlood QueenEbony

Every bloom is so perfect. How can anyone not love lilies?

It was purchased as L. hansonii, but we all know how that goes at times. Judging by the photos I scoured over the internet from various sources, you may be right Lefty. And by the looks of things, I like whatever it is I have, much preferred to the canary yellow shown in L. hansonii. So I guess some mistakes can be good, like in this case. Seriously though, it still wins the prize for the worst looking bulb I have ever received from any source. You may recall I almost composted it!

The biggest bulb mistake for me was an order with Brent and Beck.They send 5 at a time. I ordered Lady Alice and I only wanted 1 bulb but no one else carried that bulb in my amature search so I got 5.
It turne out to be Species Regal and a handsome row of lilies to be sure.
They made good on the mistake. Thats why some online sites are better than others.

I don't get upset anymore at all when I get a wrongly named lily. Happens a lot in the lily world. So, I just get the one I want elsewhere. Brent And Becky are good about replacing. Actually they're a great company, but they're not lily growers, so I expect to get some wrongly named ones. They're usually very pretty anyway, and Jenna steals them for her garden.

Jack, those are absolutely beautiful! I wonder why they named that one Ebony?

Today's collage:

'Planter's Pink'


'FF88 Select'


'Raspberry on Whip'


'Spring Pink'


'Chameleon' a martagon that a spider has taken a liking to. I figure the web will just catch the bad guys ;)

Love Raspberry on Whip.
There are some lilies in this album
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Jo Ann. The flowers are lovely and the lighting in your yard is also beautiful. It has such a warm feeling.

Thanks Tracy.Its cloudey and has been raining since 3AM.we needed it bad.

'FF88 Select' is sure a pretty little one.

Here's Robinson's comet

Purple Reign

Ceres
An Oriental I didn't feel like digging through the weeds to find the marker.
A view of my front garden today.

I always seem to have webs in my marties.