LILIES - RHS Lily Group
LILIES - RHS Lily Group
LILIES - RHS Lily Group
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Two of Derek Fox’s lily cultivars: above ‘Lake Tahoe’ and below, ‘Lake Tulare’.<br />
Recently members of the <strong>RHS</strong> <strong>Lily</strong><br />
<strong>Group</strong> instigated a conservation project<br />
to save these magnificent plants.<br />
Derek was a person very much<br />
involved at all levels in promoting the<br />
growing of lilies, being a former editor<br />
of the <strong>Lily</strong> Year Books and a regular<br />
contributor to both them and to those<br />
of the North American <strong>Lily</strong> Society. He<br />
also authored the <strong>RHS</strong> Wisley Handbook<br />
on lilies and in 1985 his monograph<br />
Growing lilies was published – a work<br />
still relevant today and sought after by<br />
would be lily growers.<br />
He served for many years on the<br />
<strong>RHS</strong> <strong>Lily</strong> <strong>Group</strong> committee and was<br />
awarded the <strong>Lily</strong> Cup; also the Lyttel Cup for his work in connection with the<br />
genus. In 2002 he was honoured by the North American <strong>Lily</strong> Society by being<br />
awarded the E.H. Wilson medal. The citation read: ‘In recognition of his life-long<br />
devotion to lilies’.<br />
Derek was also a founder member of the National Council for the Conservation<br />
of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG) Essex <strong>Group</strong> and became its first Chairman on<br />
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