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Table 2: Perth Long-term Averages Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual Mean Max (ºC) 30.6 31.2 29.3 25.9 22.4 19.2 18.3 18.6 20.0 22.7 26.2 28.7 24.4 Mean Min (ºC) 17.7 17.9 16.5 13.8 10.9 8.8 7.8 8.0 9.4 11.0 14.0 16.2 12.7 Mean Rain (mm) 18.1 5.7 23.5 28.1 98.5 148.4 154.6 135.9 89.6 45.6 21.0 5.2 779.3 Mean Rain (days) 2.0 2.1 4.8 6.5 12.4 16.7 17.7 16.2 14.9 9.6 5.9 3.8 113.6 Based on data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology how to do things through the school of ‘hard knocks’. Growing lilies in South Western Australia has provided us with a number of specific challenges, very different to any other place in the world. To start with, the land is very sandy with a low nature soil PH of 4.5. Being sand it is quick to leach and growing conditions can be difficult with strong cold winds from the Antarctic during the August and September period. On the other hand, our summers are much milder than those experienced in Perth, often described as Mediterranean (see tables 1 & 2) and we live and work in one of the most beautiful parts of Australia, the value of which can never be underestimated. The previous owners, although putting in some sound infrastructure, grew mainly during the natural season and even then, not in huge numbers. Even now we cannot be viewed as a big grower, cropping just over 300,000 lilies a year. To meet year round challenge we are reworking our 4000 m 2 of plastic tunnels into a hot house. The wonder of growing here is that by removing the wind chill and retaining warmth during the day, there is no need to have any other heating system other than that provided to us by Mother Nature. To resolve the low soil pH (a good level should be around 6), we have used lime and regularly add peat and well-composted materials. This has helped increase the pH around 5.8 and our asiatic and LA hybrids do very well. Our orientals are not quite as tolerant of even small drops in pH and we now plant these in plastic crates with potting mix (although this is expensive and reduces our profit margin by around 10% per bunch). As we refuse to use chemicals to fumigate the soil (this is still allowed in Australia), we grow field peas in rows that lie fallow. This helps clean the soil, give it a nitrogen boost and gives the soil bulk when rotary hoed into the row. 93
94 Above, the OT Hybrid, ‘Conca d’Or’, below, two oriental hybrids ‘Rosy Dawn’ (right), and ‘La Mancha’ (left). Left, ‘Ceb Dazzle’ in rows and above left, crate-planted oriental lilies. Opposite page are asiatic and LA hybrids in one of the large production tunnels at Florescence Quality Cut Flowers in Albany, Western Australia.
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LILIES and Related Plants 75 TH ANN
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Lilies and Related Plants Published
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Royal Horticultural Society Lily Gr
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Contents Alisdair Aird by Harris Ho
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Gennady Firsov, PhD, is Senior Rese
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the Lyttel Cup. When I mentioned th
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Dee Simmons and her husband Martyn
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But, now that she is gone, how shou
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Lilium dauricum at Hamatonbetsu on
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Above left, Lilium callosum var. fl
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var. abeanum is a case in point, or
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Two of Derek Fox’s lily cultivars
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18 The lilies of Greece Arne Strid
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The five lilies of Greece. A: Liliu
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The natural distribution of Lilium
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Right, Lilium chalcedonicum, indivi
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gracefully curved, bright lemon yel
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28 A brief history of the RHS Lily
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Greece . . . . . . . . . . S.C. Atc
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initiate a programme of chromosone
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Faced with this continuing situatio
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Hence this review… We are extreme
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TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Consider the
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TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Lilies Derek
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Page 51 and 52: growing plants in a climate that ha
Page 53 and 54: Lily Year Books The Year Books of o
Page 55 and 56: Institute became more and more conc
Page 57 and 58: Above left, ‘Descant’, Top righ
Page 59 and 60: visitors at New Mill, often summone
Page 61 and 62: A group of North Hybrids sent to Br
Page 63 and 64: 56 Dr A.F. Hayward (1933-2006) Dr T
Page 65 and 66: Lily ‘Connecticut King’, the cu
Page 67 and 68: Lilium regale and asiatic hybrids f
Page 69 and 70: European and Middle Eastern lilies
Page 71 and 72: A group of asiatic hybrids and two
Page 73 and 74: growing in half shade, so I have no
Page 75 and 76: 68 Alisdair Aird Harris Howland wri
Page 77 and 78: 70 On the road in search of lilies
Page 79 and 80: Mount Shasta, rising to 14,162ft wa
Page 81 and 82: iver whose broad meanders we had cr
Page 83: 76 North American Pacific Coast lil
Page 86 and 87: somewhat decadent, in that we parke
Page 88 and 89: Left, Erythronium multiscapoideum f
Page 90 and 91: or Cliftonii Group in gardening cir
Page 92 and 93: Above, Erythronium propullans. The
Page 94 and 95: Trumpet lilies Walter Erhardt write
Page 96 and 97: Two beautiful trumpet hybrids. Abov
Page 98 and 99: Commercial lily production in tunne
Page 102 and 103: We also use a combination of cow ma
Page 104 and 105: Table 3: Lilium Varieties continued
Page 106 and 107: for making of barragons, a genteel
Page 108 and 109: ulbs soon. I have seen this lily gr
Page 110 and 111: suggestion that White grew or certa
Page 112 and 113: Geographic location The territory o
Page 114 and 115: Left, Fritillaria ruthenica growing
Page 116 and 117: Threatened species As a result of o
Page 118 and 119: Tulipa biebersteiniana in the Fomin
Page 120 and 121: ees and butterflies in the air, and
Page 122 and 123: Above, a large population of gladio
Page 124 and 125: glades at places Berezniki (environ
Page 126 and 127: Dubrava, in upland oakwoods, alder
Page 128 and 129: villages. These include Scilla sibi
Page 130 and 131: The International Lily Registrar Ka
Page 132 and 133: of Wester Ross beyond an ever-chang
Page 134 and 135: Allium angulosum 114 decipiens 114
Page 136 and 137: (Lilium) ‘Prunotto’ 96 pseudoti
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