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We also use a combination of cow manure and trace elements to develop the soil before planting. This is added to during the growing period with drip fed PK (soon after bud development). All our planting is done by hand, as is the picking. To reduce the problem of leaching, our watering is done in a number of short bursts throughout the day. A great advantage of lilies is that they are surface feeders; collecting most of their nutrients from their stem roots, their base roots providing stability and water uptake. This ‘burst’ water technique is an effective, efficient and environmentally responsible way of watering (reducing the chance of fertilisers leaching into the ground water). We also use a soil/water conditioner that allows the water from the dripper tapes to spread evenly over the whole row, rather than going straight down. Our bulbs for most of the year come from Holland. These are stored in a freezer at -1.5° Celsius until required. However, with a shelf life of around eight months after arriving in Australia, orientals need to be sourced from New Zealand or Chile for the October to January period and we grow many of the asiatic and LA hybrids for this period ourselves. Another issue that faces us is that we have much higher summer light than most other places in Australia. This means that, although our average temperature is perfect for growing, stems are often short with very large flowers. As the commercial market pays on stem length (60/70cm is the optimum), this poses a problem. To overcome this we whitewash the roof of each tunnel and this year will also reduce the light further by hanging shade cloth inside. 95
<strong>Lily</strong> varieties We have tried many varieties: some have been very successful and others not so good. Table 3 shows many of the varieties and we have made comments on each as to how successful we have been with them. Table 3: Lilium Varieties ASIATIC AND LA HYBRIDS ‘Ceb Dazzle’ - LA Hybrid (yellow) P Always good ‘Gironde’ - Asiatic (yellow) P ‘Golden Tycoon’ - LA Hybrid (yellow) P ‘Pavia’ - LA Hybrid (yellow) P ‘Madras’ - Asiatic (yellow) ? Trial ‘Pisa’ - Asiatic (yellow) O ‘Tresor’ - Asiatic (orange) P ‘Gibraltar’ syn. ‘Elite’ - Asiatic (orange) O ‘Heraklion’ - Asiatic (orange) O ‘Salmon Classic’ LA Hybrid (apricot) O/P Quick grower, small no. of buds ‘Top Gun’ - LA Hybrid (light pink) O Great colour ‘Samur’ - LA Hybrid (strong pink on light pink ground)* P ‘Brindisi’ - LA Hybrid (purplish red)* O/P small no. of buds ‘Turandot’ - LA Hybrid (intense pink)* O Very brittle ‘Royal Sunset’ - LA Hybrid (mixed orange-red) P ‘Loreto’ - Asiatic (strong orange)* O Too short but great 2? colour ‘Latvia’ - Asiatic (brilliant yellow)* O Too short ‘Centerfold’ - Asiatic (yellowish white) P ‘Prunotto’ - Asiatic (red-orange) P ‘Ercolano’ - LA Hybrid (white) P ‘Navona’ - Asiatic (white) O ‘Aspin’, trade designation SNOWSTORM - Asiatic (white) P ‘Donatello’ - LA Hybrid (white) P ‘Courier’ - LA Hybrid (brilliant greenish yellow)* P ‘Nova Scotia’ – LA Hybrid (yellowish white) ? Trial ‘Fangio’ - LA Hybrid 70/60cm(red) P ‘Red Alert’ - LA Hybrid 70/60cm(red) O/P On the lookout for better red ‘Red Classic’ - LA Hybrid 70/60cm(red) O/P ‘Freya’ - LA Hybrid (brilliant yellow) ? Trial ‘Orriolo’ - LA Hybrid (vivid yellow) LONGIFLORUM ? Trial ‘Zanlophator’, trade designation TRIUMPHATOR - LO Hybrid (white/strong pink)* P ‘White Heaven’ Longiflorum (white) P * denotes that the colour stated here is that which was given when the cultivar was registered; in our experience, under our light conditions the colours are somewhat paler. 96
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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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well established. Therefore almost
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Page 53 and 54: Lily Year Books The Year Books of o
Page 55 and 56: Institute became more and more conc
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Page 59 and 60: visitors at New Mill, often summone
Page 61 and 62: A group of North Hybrids sent to Br
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Page 67 and 68: Lilium regale and asiatic hybrids f
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Page 75 and 76: 68 Alisdair Aird Harris Howland wri
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Page 88 and 89: Left, Erythronium multiscapoideum f
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Page 92 and 93: Above, Erythronium propullans. The
Page 94 and 95: Trumpet lilies Walter Erhardt write
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Page 98 and 99: Commercial lily production in tunne
Page 100 and 101: Table 2: Perth Long-term Averages J
Page 104 and 105: Table 3: Lilium Varieties continued
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Page 112 and 113: Geographic location The territory o
Page 114 and 115: Left, Fritillaria ruthenica growing
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Page 118 and 119: Tulipa biebersteiniana in the Fomin
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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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