LILIES - RHS Lily Group

More documents

Recommendations

Info

it can be extremely variable from year to year, in that some winters for example, can be very mild, with almost no frosts, others can be extremely cold, with temperatures going down to minus 15°C. However, usually, autumns and winters are fairly mild, with temperatures from 10 to minus 5°C, and springs can be quite wet and alternately cold or warm. Summers are usually very warm and dry. Sometimes, we get what they call “Indian summers” which are autumns where the temperatures rarely go below 15 to 18°C for many weeks. The lilies I have been growing lilies since 1999, when I purchased my first three lily bulbs at the age of 14. They were bulbs of an asiatic lily hybrid, the golden yellow and orange ‘Connecticut King’, which has, since then, established itself profusely here in my borders in my parents’ garden. I guess that I must have over 30 of them now. When they flowered for the first time at the end of June 1999, I was struck by the grace and beauty of the flowers, and that autumn, realised that ‘Connecticut King’ was not the only lily in existence, and purchased a few more hybrids. In the spring of 2000, I bought my first lily species, two bulbs of Lilium speciosum rubrum. By then, I had started to become more and more interested in lilies, and had started documenting them in increasing detail. Time passed, and in June 2001, I went on a hike in the Jura, and next to the road, my eyes caught sight of a marvellously strong and vigorous Lilium martagon, with over 20 large deep pink flowers, on a stem over 150 cm tall. I think that it was at that moment that my real interest in lilies, and lily species, began. I then started collecting lilies properly, first with the species commonly available at the time in Swiss garden centres, such as Lilium pumilum, L. martagon, L. henryi, L. regale and L. lancifolium. However, for me, that was not enough. I had been bitten by the lily fervour, and wanted rarer lilies for my collections. I therefore started buying lilies from France and the UK, by mail order, and got my hands on sumptuous lilies, such as ‘Black Beauty’, and species such as Lilium leucanthum, L. superbum and L. canadense. Since then, my lily collection has been growing at a rapid rate, with lilies from all over the world joining my collection each year. In January 2005 I ordered lily bulbs from China for the first time, bulbs of excellent quality, but the origins of which are not always certain to be from nursery raised plants, and might be collected in the wild. Since then, I have ordered a second time and most bulbs have flowered, and I have been fairly lucky in that approximately ninety per cent of the bulbs that flowered were in fact the correct species. (Bulbs that come from China are sometimes mislabelled or wrongly identified). 59
Lilium regale and asiatic hybrids flowering in the author’s parents’ garden in Switzerland. The lily season usually starts for me around the end of May, with Lilium pyrenaicum, L. pumilum, L. lijiangense, and L. bulbiferum var. croceum, and ends at the end of September, with the last few flowers of Lilium speciosum rubrum and L. rosthornii. I now feel that I should concentrate a little more on the title of my article, which after all, is entitled “Growing lilies in Switzerland”. I have therefore decided to divide all the lily species I grow into their original locations, and go group by group, writing about how well they grow here in Switzerland. Chinese and Japanese lilies I will begin with the group that has done best overall, the Chinese and Japanese lilies. I grow several of these species, including Lilium regale, L. rosthornii, L. bakerianum, L. davidii, L. leucanthum, L. sargentiae, L. speciosum rubrum, L. duchartrei, L. gloriosoides, L. lankongense, L. lancifolium, L. pumilum, L. taliense (perhaps var. kaichen), L. lijiangense, L. majoense, L. xanthellum luteum and L. sulphureum, as well as a species I think might be Lilium brownii. All these species spread profusely by various means (offsets, stem bulbils and 60
Page 1 and 2:
LILIES and Related Plants 75 TH ANN
Page 3 and 4:
Lilies and Related Plants Published
Page 5 and 6:
Royal Horticultural Society Lily Gr
Page 7 and 8:
Contents Alisdair Aird by Harris Ho
Page 9 and 10:
Gennady Firsov, PhD, is Senior Rese
Page 11 and 12:
the Lyttel Cup. When I mentioned th
Page 13 and 14:
Dee Simmons and her husband Martyn
Page 15 and 16: But, now that she is gone, how shou
Page 17 and 18: Lilium dauricum at Hamatonbetsu on
Page 19 and 20: Above left, Lilium callosum var. fl
Page 21 and 22: var. abeanum is a case in point, or
Page 23 and 24: Two of Derek Fox’s lily cultivars
Page 25 and 26: 18 The lilies of Greece Arne Strid
Page 27 and 28: The five lilies of Greece. A: Liliu
Page 29 and 30: The natural distribution of Lilium
Page 31 and 32: Right, Lilium chalcedonicum, indivi
Page 33 and 34: gracefully curved, bright lemon yel
Page 35 and 36: 28 A brief history of the RHS Lily
Page 37 and 38: Greece . . . . . . . . . . S.C. Atc
Page 39 and 40: initiate a programme of chromosone
Page 41 and 42: Faced with this continuing situatio
Page 43 and 44: Hence this review… We are extreme
Page 45 and 46: TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Consider the
Page 47 and 48: TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Lilies Derek
Page 49 and 50: well established. Therefore almost
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: Lily ‘Connecticut King’, the cu
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 100 and 101: Table 2: Perth Long-term Averages J
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
show all

LILIES - RHS Lily Group

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?