Good luck with your seeds, Joe! I have a few second year seedlings of
L. lijiangense and I'm hoping they like me enough to come up next year and bloom. I'm ignoring them. Hopefully they're like cats and decide to get my attention.
Image capture + winter = cool edit!
Yep, the Tasmanian shows are later than the bulk of asiatics, so that has an influence. Most of my lilies peak around mid-december, but because of Christmas, no one wants to hold a show then, so there are alot of lilies we never see on the benches. Mind you, asiatic specialists
are in the minority here. Trumpets, aurelians and orienpets are the most popular subjects with most of our best growers and breeders. The deep red soils of the northwest grow some tremendous big lilies.
That said, it was a later season than usual for the asiatics this year. Not late enough for me to get the good ones on the bench, but there were a good few at Burnie. I'll put up some pics later.
edit: I should add, we've struggled to grow martagons well here, but a few growers are trying and making progress. There has been at least one amazing martagon stem I've seen benched at Burnie, but didn't note any this year.
