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progeny. Although there was no debate about the identity of the L. pardalinum plants we found, or that some of the plants growing nearby were hybrids, Barb was not convinced that the pale orange lilies we also found were L. wigginsii, as she felt the flower of this lily should be yellow. However, the L. wigginsii I grow in my garden and photographs of this lily I have seen in reference books are almost identical in colour to the lilies growing beside Onion Lake. Unfortunately, I’m not yet in a position to compare my own naturally occurring hybrids, between my L. pardalinum and L. wigginsii, with the photographs I took of the Onion Lake hybrids, but this should be possible in a year or two when it will be interesting to see if the flower colours relate. As two parents are required to produce hybrids and Barb wasn’t convinced about the non-yellow L. wigginsii, she postulated that L. kelloggii might be the mystery paramour of L. pardalinum, but as all of the Onion Lake lilies were growing in a water meadow and L. kelloggii is a dry land lily I had to beg to differ with that suggestion. The next lily we encountered, after leaving the tranquil shores of Onion Lake, was L. bolanderi. This is a much sought after, dry land, lily that has very pretty outward facing campanulate flowers, which Derek Fox has described as vinous or brick red in colour. The glaucous sheen of the stem, leaves and flower buds further enhance this lovely lily. By the time we reached Eureka, on the Pacific coast, the hot sun had been replaced with a chilly low-lying wet mist that reminded me of Scotland. When we headed south to Table Bluff, the next day, the pleasure of seeing about a dozen flowering plants of L. occidentale was tempered by the dreich (damp and depressing) morning. I have always thought the Scots have the best words to describe unpleasant weather, dreich being one of the more evocative – I wonder why that is? L. occidentale, so named because it is the most westerly American species lily, is much prettier than its relative L. pardalinum. On the outside of the flower the tepals are recurved, narrowly delicate and deep crimson, while the inside of the flower contrasts the deep crimson with a yellowish centre decorated with maroon spotting. This is a very rare lily, which had some protection, from wire netting, but it is a moot point as to how effective this will be in denying the appetites of the deer we saw scampering off, as we approached the breach in the fence around the sanctuary perimeter. Fortunately, local conservation efforts are in place, at a plant nursery nearby in Kneeland, so the future for L. occidentale may be more hopeful than it at first appears. Apparently, this lily is not difficult to grow in the UK as Patrick Synge, in his book Lilies, refers to Dee Simmons and Oliver Wyatt as testifying. However, that was many years ago, so I think the opportunity to grow this lily currently could be far less likely. After we had visited the nursery at Kneeland we headed west until we found a number of plants of L. kelloggii flowering by the roadside. Although identified in reference books as a dry land lily, these plants were growing in a lushly 75
76 North American Pacific Coast lily species: below left, Lilium bolanderi; left, L. washingtonianum; above left, the star-shaped flowers of L. rubescens and above, L. kellogii (in colour similar to L. wardii); above right, a pink-flowered L. parvum; above far right, L. occidentale, a very rare lily growing within earshot of the Pacific Ocean, and right, a spectacular group of L. pardalinum. Below, Kathy, Charlie and Barb at the Orleans Mining Co Motel, in Bigfoot country.
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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
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 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: iver whose broad meanders we had cr
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
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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
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of Wester Ross beyond an ever-chang
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Allium angulosum 114 decipiens 114
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(Lilium) ‘Prunotto’ 96 pseudoti
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