Rick, you can correct away as much as you like here. It's gold.
There were several catalogues that advertised Scheherezade here this year. I really really had to sit on my hands. Such a fantastic lily from Judith Freeman, and for all I know, never offered before in Australia... but for it to be offered suddenly by so many nurseries at once, it had to have come wholesale from Holland. So many reasons not to buy it. Not just almost certain infection, but the fact (I presume) that Judith would never see a cent from tens of thousands of sales.
Lorn, I'll have space here to isolate newcomers, but still, I think I'll be rather picky about what I buy. On the other hand, given that viruses have already come in on last year's purchases, (and are such a part of life anyway), I'm more concerned with growing resistant and/or tolerant garden lilies. I just don't want to waste my time with cut-flower genetics. Unless it's alstroemeria
Anyway, here's a seedling I'm happy with, and its sibling:
Now in their ninth year of flowering, they have nice pedicels and fair foliage. I'm hoping the fact that they've never had more than 8 buds on a stem is due to neglect and the fact I use them relentlessly as pod parents.
