Serendipity mags, serendipity!

I had 'karen north' open up and show is color





This was one of the bulbs I purchased this year from The Lily Garden.

I Karen North! Awesome.

Thank you Tracey! I'm liking it too, and it should only get better in the years to come I hope. I like the seedling you posted. Has a lot of character to it.

Connie, that S-2 of yours is gorgeous too! Looks kind of like a 'regale' crossed with bonbini. Though I'm sure I am way off.

Dave, S-2 is from seeds I purchased from David Sims. It is an orienpet lily. Sims used to have a web site where he sold lily seeds from his own crosses. He quit after 2006.

Lovin' all these lovelies, and especially Karen North... such a beautiful, yet indescribable hue of plum-orange. This one is eight years old, pic taken last week. I think someone here gave it to me, back when we were all on Davesgarden.com.

I love watching the colors on the outside change as they are about to open. But before they open and they are red they remind me of little peppers.

So beautiful! I'm envious of you guys with your North lilies!

John, this was my first year for Fusion and it really is striking in person. Nice photo.

Love the color of Karen North too. Wish they would do better for me. Seem to stay very short. Lovely seedling Mags. I really like the color of the orange.
Too bad it didn't make it. No rain here for too long, so am keeping busy watering. Have some new photos but need to get them downloaded. Empoli is impressing me right now.

I'm not sure why Karen North likes me. Despite two seasons of early cold damage, an accidental dowsing with triclopyr (a broadleaf weedkiller), and twice testing with a spray of Liquid iron* that it wasn't appreciative of, it's 5.5ft tall now. It grows in a clay base soil, amended with sand and compost eight years ago, and that soil still cracks severely in the dry season. I only have maple and ash leaves (quickly decomposing) for mulch, so I don't have a good layer all summer long. But it does get high thin shade from an Amur maackia (tree) in the afternoon from around 1pm on. Like any lily with strong lineage from mountain environments, one key is probably keeping the soil as cool as possible.

* Liquid Iron is a product containing iron, magnesium, manganese, copper and zinc. I use it to help combat chlorosis in early stage growth of my martagon section lilies.

Lime Ice

Well the 2 other stems opened up and turned out to be correct with being graffity. So one bulb was not the correct one. Hmmm now to figure out what it is, mark the stems so i can relocate the wrong one to another location

First one is a great Summer Palace strain. The second one was gotten a few years back as 'African Queen' but it clearly isn't. It is however a strong stemmed 6fter with a lot of buds!

Triumphator opened up with 4 blooms on the bottom. Actually have a nice cluster here. I believe it was 12 stems in total, though some are little stems without a bud this year.

Orange Country



Blackout

Pretty lilies, Pandora!

Great looking Summer Palace Dave. Really a nice unique pink for a trumpet.

Nice ones Pandora.

I Have a few new ones I just haven't had tome to post. Robina is doing a good job of perfuming the whole neighborhood. Maybe my strongest scented.

Joe, that is a really dark pink Summer Palace! I had one of three that was almost that dark, too. There must be a lot of variation with this one. One of the three I had was a beautiful apple blossom pink. Sadly, all three were accidentally given away while moving them when my daughter unintentionally through them in a 'give away' box of culls. EDIT NOTE: The 3rd bulb, a much lighter version, is in the background of these pictures.


And that beautiful apple blossom pink I'll never see again.

Oops. They're beautiful, hopefully some lucky gardener still enjoys them.

Thanks for the thumbs and comments. I had 21 varieties and abt 100 bulbs before the great chipmunk invasion a few years ago. They are like catnip to them. Every bulb completely gone in 2 years.

I've been experimenting building different cages and Blackout was first real success. Not sure about when they outgrow the underground cage.