Thank you Leftwood!
I was also going to cut the buds, but this seller I bought the bulbs from usually sells wholesale to florists that grow the bulbs and sell them in pots when they are in flower.
The rest of the bulbs he sells retail.
I want to know if he sent me the ones I asked for or has mixed all the leftover bulbs and... you get what you get.
I need at least to see one flower so I can decide if to buy from him next year or not.
(The quality of the bulbs is good, the price is very good, but next year I must buy them earlier. )
When I bought these bulbs, the one I was interested in was Lilium longiflorum cv. White Heaven.
I added Stargazer and Sunny Martinique because they were cheap and I could include more bulbs in the same shipment.
Unfortunately here we can only get the L longiflorum cultivars sold in Europe for cut flowers... the big ones. Nobody sells the longiflorum lilies you can get in the US for Easter, like cv. 'Nellie White', which are shorter.
The ones in my avatar are 'Snow Queen' 1.5 m high (59 in). They grow very well in pots but the wind is always a problem.
Like in the US and in many other countries, Lilium longiflorum has naturalized in many provinces in Argentina.
These pics of L longiflorum you can see in this article are growing wild in Salta, a northwest province that limits with Bolivia.
(I cannot include links... you can find the article searching for: Presencia de Lilium longiflorum (Liliaceae) adventicia en la Argentina )
I reproduce the pics here:
They look a bit wild, don't they? .... thin stems and very thin leaves.
I would like to see them live.
