The first Lily to flower

[Roach]

a few pictures of the first lily to flower in my garden (got a few hundred different ones thats gonna flower over the next 2 month).

I recieved this one as a gift from latvia and i realy like the burned terracota like colour, but its only 20cm high this year and the flowers are downfacing so was a bit hard to get a good photo, but next year its gonna be higher.

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430mere_nyt_015_edited.jpg

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430mere_nyt_038_edited.jpg

here is a side view

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430mere_nyt_039_edited.jpg

and a pic of the devil! this little fucker can strip a lily for its leaves in a day, i just love to step on them realy slow so you can hear all the crunching :p

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430mere_nyt_042_edited.jpg

more to follow later

[Green Supreme]

Nice roach. The only lilies I have seen so far this year are calla lilies. Gotta get some of those babies for next year. Peace GS

[caddis]

Nice pics Roach, you da lilymon!!

A few hundred ready for flower? Ehhwwweee that will be a hell of a show!!! Looking forward to it. :beer:

Is that string used for marking rows?

Taker easy, caddis

[The Cannarchist]

A little tip burn....boating,loss of color.....I'd say magnesium deficiency...LOL

Very nice flower Roach,but you'll be paying the karma wheel for the bug genocide.....:laughing:

[Roach]

caddis, yes i had to organize them in rows to get room for them all

and cannarchist you are right, they do lack magnesium but its too hot atm to spray them with epson salt, should come some colder days later this week, but fortunatly its only the leaves that gets affected by nute deffiences, the flowers are always just as pretty

[c-ray]

awesome

do you what kind of soil lillies require, or any special growing requirements...I believe they are a prairie plant

[Roach]

c-ray, there are so many different types of lilies (lilium spp) some grow in bogs others in vulcanic ashes and some on limestone, some like it hot some cold, so there will always be someone suiting your growing conditions and some who dont, one thing they got in comon is the need for a well drained airy soil (even the swamp ones)

[Roach]

some more lilies, unfortunatly we had a heavy hail storm and it destroyed most of them :cry: and the remaining are far from their potential

first one is Landini

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430LAN-med.jpg

this is Ortega

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430ORT-med.JPG

next is Sinfonia, this one is similair to the above, but not as sturdy and in cooler weather it got a rosy band at the edge of the petals

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430SIN-med.JPG

[Roach]

then we have Bravura, its the first year it flowers, so its only 30 cm high, next year it should reach 1.5 meter

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430BRA-med.JPG

and last is Silk Road (red) and Ambiente (yellow), both of these just grows bigger and bigger each year

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430SR_AM-med.JPG

[Green Supreme]

Wow nice show thanks man. Peace GS

[Albi]

very beautiful roach


ortega

[Roach]

thanks for the nice words, here is a few more

Starburst Sensation

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430SS-med.JPG

Carte Blanche

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430CAR_edited-med.jpg

Robina

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430robina_edited-med.jpg

Longiflorum

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430longi_edited-med.jpg

unnamed tango hybrid

http://www.hg420.com/gallery/data/500/3430TAN-med.jpg