All in all a tough year here for the lilies. Lost around 40% of the new asiatic seedlings in the pots due to an invasion of voles. The new lily seedlings are now in a hardware cloth cage structure for the winter.
The black squirrel from hell that someone has brought into the neighborhood as a pet is still here doing damages.
I had to spend quite a bit of time this summer watering due to drought conditions. Made the decision to minimize the number of crosses on the seedlings in the pots so as not to stress the plants. For the most part I tried to restrict the crosses to the commercial expendable lilies.
Just finished checking on what i will have to plant this winter (flowers for 2018) from some of the tango lily crosses that produced seeds. Good pods and seeds on Cafe Noir, Thesire, and Purple eye.
Also have seeds from a cross of the yellow sibling of 12-183 orange with white center onto Purple Eye
