Lovely lily!
Anthony, could you upload a pic of Terracotta Warrior?
Neil's 'Harlequins' are called the Tas Township series - all of them named for a place in Tasmania with aboriginal naming. They are derived from Edith Cecilia and L. davidii varieties; also a few hardy asiatics that had survived well in Neil and Irene's garden for years. This includes a cultivar I have in my records as 'Sarina', from which I believe his stronger yellow hybrids derive. If you ever read this, Neil, please correct me!
Many years ago now Neil kindly gave me some seed from his Tas Township breeding line. One grandparent was Edith Cecilia. Two are flowering today:
These are first year flowering from scale of original seedlings. I've had many years of graceful bloom from the originals but only scaled them once.
I also have a few seedlings bred from this group of seedlings crossed with my own L. davidii hybrids - they are very distinctively 'Tas Township'; Neil's flower size, shape and spotting, and spare foliage on willowy bending stem are quite dominant. Less often prominent but still lingering in most progeny are the sloping shoulders - pedicels that hang down from the stem.
I'll try to post pics of them elsewhere (and edit link in if I do.)
