rollingstone
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by rollingstone on Jul 5, 2006 2:25:08 GMT -5
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 5, 2006 4:55:32 GMT -5
don i've never seen one of these lilies. i can sure see why you'd want to add more. how long is their bloom time?
kim
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Post by Alice on Jul 5, 2006 8:16:42 GMT -5
They sure are pretty Don
Can't say I've seen hanging lillies like that before either.
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Post by Tweetiepy on Jul 5, 2006 11:12:52 GMT -5
Very nice - they look like Tiger lilies - same family I assume?
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Jul 5, 2006 15:09:32 GMT -5
It's been terribly hot here this past week, so I think the bloom time is going to be fairly short. On the stalk with 22 buds, the first bloom opened June 30, and 15 have now opened, with the oldest blooms about to fade. So it's looking like the show is only going to be two weeks at best. We're running about 20 degrees F above normal this week, so in a typical year I think they might go for 3-4 weeks. Tweet, you are right that they look kind of like tiger lilies, but the flowers are smaller and strongly scented, unlike tigers. And a big difference is that martagons bloom in these parts at the end of June/start July, whereas tigers bloom in mid-August. Both lilies, but different species -- martagons are Lilium martagon, tigers are Lilium tigrinium (also L. lancifolium). Here's a gratuitious tiger lily pic from a couple years ago, taken August 20.  |
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Post by Cher on Jul 5, 2006 15:29:18 GMT -5
Don, do you know if those make seeds like on the stems of the tiger lily? Be nice if you had a way to propagate them since they are so expensive. Beautiful flowers though.
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Post by akansan on Jul 5, 2006 16:14:38 GMT -5
Cher, I thought the tiger lily's were bulb flowers? Do yours have actual seeds?
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Jul 5, 2006 18:02:05 GMT -5
Cher is referring to the little dark-brown to black bulbils (mini-bulbs) that form in each leaf node of the tiger lily. If you plant those (they often "plant" themselves when they drop off in late summer or fall), the next year they put up one leaf. Year after that they put up a small stem. In 3 or 4 years they are big enough to start blooming. It's a very easy way to vastly increase your tiger lily patch over a few years. Unfortunately, no such thing with the martagons, and they are notoriously slow to increase by natural division of the main bulb. That's why they are so expensive -- the cheap ones are $10-$15 per bulb, some of the rarer and slowest to divide ones can go for $50 for one bulb. Hmm, the ocean jasper of the lily world.  |
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Post by Cher on Jul 5, 2006 18:16:35 GMT -5
Yup, what Don said about the little baby bulbs that grow where the leaf and stem meet.
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