Plant: Asiatic Lily "Lollipop" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 18 Planted: 4/7/04 Blooms: Early June Notes: Planted 12 in kitchen garden in spring 2004. The rabbits love the foliage and the blooms.
Planted 6 more on 5/12/05. They're pretty but they are tall and flop over easily after it rains. Moved three to a sunnier location in the back garden and removed the rest to make room for a patio extension, but they've multiplied quickly so I have more than a dozen.
Plant: Asiatic Lily "Cote d'Azur" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 18 Planted: Fall 2003 Blooms: Early June Notes: Planted 6 in fall 2003. First foliage appeared on 4/6/04. Very short-lived
blooms. Color was paler than the catalog showed. Planted 6 more on 5/27/04. The rabbits love eating these plants. Planted 6 more on 5/12/05. The plants are thriving and are multiplying. Moved 6 - 8 bulbs to a sunnier location in the back garden to make room for a patio extension.
Plant: Double Asiatic Lily "Ceres" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 6 Planted: 10/29/05 Blooms: Early June Notes: These are dark pink, pretty blooms.
The rabbits used to completely strip the foliage off of the stems every spring but they're cutting back lately.
Plant: Mixed Oriental Lilies Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 70 Planted: 3/29/04 Blooms: Early June Notes: Planted 20 in kitchen garden in 2004. There are yellow, white, and dark pink, and the various types bloom from June to August (yellow first, then pink, then white). Planted 50 more in 2005 as an offering to the rabbits; 20 were in with this grouping, and 30 more were behind the back garden closer to where the rabbits like to hang out. Some of the later-blooming flowers were pale pink with 18 - 24 petals each. We eventually tired of the scatted look and the ragged stems after the rabbits were done with them, so we eliminated most of the bulbs except for one grouping and used the reclaimed space for different plants.
Plant: Easter Lily "Elegant Lady" Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs Quantity: 5 Planted: 4/14/04 Blooms: Early June Notes: Planted in back garden. Nice, consistent flowers. These are dwindling every year.
Plant: Asiatic Lily Mix - Pink Source: Van Dyck's Quantity: 5 Planted: 4/26/05 Blooms: Early June Notes: Free with purchase. The large pink/peach flowers bloom first, followed by yellow blooms immediately after, then shorter white ones one a week after that. There were also a couple of Lollipops mixed in which I moved to be with the others in the garden. Because of the differences in heights and bloom times, I'm not a fan of mixes like these, so I separated them into a pink group and a white group (see below). These grow to over four feet tall and have multiplied quickly. In May 2009, we dug some up to give to my cousin and the bulbs were baseball-sized, and I have several dozen left.
Plant: Asiatic Lily Mix - White Source: Van Dyck's Quantity: 5 Planted: 4/26/05 Blooms: Early June Notes: See notes for Asiatic Lily Mix - Pink above. These things are absolutely thriving. They're less than two feet tall.
Plant: LA Hybrid Lily "Samur" Source: Langeveld Quantity: 9 Planted: 4/13/06 Blooms: Mid-June Notes: Originally planted in side garden. Coming up very well. These are a soft pink flower with slightly spongy petals. We moved these to the far back garden when we moved some trees and shrubs to the side garden, and the rabbits now dine on them. These have gotten tall over the years, and are about four feet tall.
Plant: Dwarf Oriental Lily "Miss Birma" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 8 Planted: 5/27/04 Blooms: Late June Notes: Planted four in back garden. Did not come up at all in 2004, but returned in spring 2005. Added four more on 6/1/05. These poor things got eaten by rabbits, so only one bloom appeared in 2005, but they've done better each year since then and all of the stems produce multiple blooms. These are very prettty dwarf lilies less than two feet tall.
Plant: Dwarf Oriental Lily "Rodolfa" Source: Van Bourgondien, Van Dyck's Quantity: 10 Planted: 4/3/04 Blooms: Early July Notes: Planted 4 from Van Bourgondien in spring 2004, then planted 6 more from Van Dyck's and Van Bourgondien in spring 2005. These are nice, compact lilies and they are blooming very well now that they're established. They are in the front garden amid all of the phlox. They're dwindling every year, so I moved the two that were left to a much more hospitable location in the back garden.
Plant: Double Tiger Lily "Flora Pleno" Source: Van Dyck's, Van Bourgondien Quantity: 12 Planted: 10/29/05 Blooms: Early July Notes: Planted in kitchen garden. Coming up very well. The blooms are really pretty and there are many on each stem. Every bulb came up and they produced many seeds or bulblets along their stems. These came back stronger with lots more foliage their second year. Moved them to the far back garden where they can spread and be as tall as they want. The rabbits don't like eating these lilies.
Plant: Oriental Lily "Starfighter" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 9 Planted: 5/27/04 Blooms: Mid-July Notes: Planted by magnolia bush. Were completely eaten by rabbits in 2004, but returned in spring 2005. They have huge, gorgeous, fragrant blooms and are the most impressive Oriental lilies we have. They were over four feet tall their second year.
If you plant only one type of Oriental lily, this is the one.
Moved these to the side garden in 2008 because the trees on either side of them were crowding them out.
Plant: Oriental Lily "Dizzy" Source: Van Dyck's Quantity: 6 Planted: 4/26/05 Blooms: Mid-July Notes: Planted in side garden among tulips which are long gone. Droughts followed by excessive rain were hard on these buds in 2005, and they ended up brown on the edges. These look exactly as pictured in the catalogs.
Plant: Oriental Lily "Muscadet" Source: Brent and Becky's Bulbs Quantity: 10 Planted: 4/28/06 Blooms: Mid-July Notes: Planted in back garden. These were the largest lily bulbs I have ever purchased. They arrived with viable roots intact as well. These were fairly short their first year, but they produced lots of blooms. They're getting taller every year, as seems to be typical of Oriental lilies. The blooms are absolutely beautiful -- pure white with pink spots. In May 2009, we dug some up to give to my cousin and the bulbs were softball-sized.
Plant: Madonna Lily Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 1 Planted: 10/9/04 Notes: Free with purchase. Originally planted in spa garden. We thought a long heat wave had killed it in 2005, but foliage reappeared in September 2005. Didn't bloom in 2006 either and foliage died back in summer 2006, but then foliage reappeared in September 2006. Same story for 2007 and 2008. I don't get it. Will this thing ever do anything? Moved it to a sunnier location in 2008.
Removed or Disappeared
Plant: Double Oriental Lily "Miss Lucy" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 3 Planted: 6/1/06 Blooms: Mid-July Notes: Planted in back garden. These were shipped to me a month and a half late and only two came up, most likely because the bulbs had already sprouted quite a bit in the bags. The two that came up only grew 6 - 8 inches in 2006, and only one bloomed in 2007. Ditto for 2008. These produced a few sickly blooms in 2009, so out they came.
Plant: Oriental Lily "Purple Sensation" Source: Park's Gardens Quantity: 3 Planted: 5/23/07 Blooms: Mid-July Notes: Planted in back garden. The rabbits slowly ate all three to the ground, but we know from experience that Oriental lilies always rebound from this type of abuse, and they're doing better in 2008. Apparently, I was naive when I thought that these would be purple, but they're not. They're just another pink Oriental lily. They barely returned in 2009 so out they came.
Plant: Oriental Lily "Nippon" Source: Van Dyck's Quantity: 6 Planted: 4/26/05 Blooms: Mid-July Notes: Planted in side garden. The photo in the catalog is much prettier than these turned out to be. I was taken by the thin peach edging in the photo, but in reality, they start out white and turn pink at the ends after a few days. However, they're still nice.
We moved these to the far back garden when we moved some trees and shrubs to the side garden in 2007, but the rabbits kept eating them down to the ground because that garden is far away from the house and out of sight of the humans.
Plant: Asiatic Lily "Centerfold" Source: Van Dyck's Quantity: 12 Planted: 4/26/05 Blooms: Late June Notes: Planted in side garden. The markings on this cream-colored plants are burgundy stripes, and are quite striking. We really liked this one. Like most of our lilies, these were twice as tall their second season.
We moved these to the far back garden in 2007, but rabbits and lack of sunlight killed them. In May 2009, I gave my cousin the few remaining bulbs to try in her garden instead.
Plant: Trumpet Lily "Regale" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 6 Planted: Spring 2004 Blooms: Late June Notes: These were eaten to the ground by rabbits in 2004, so we pulled up all of the bulbs, or so we thought. Three bulbs returned in 2005, and one survived the rabbits long enough to bloom. These are pretty enough, but they are so freakishly tall that they don't look good in small numbers and they are out of place in their location, so we removed them.
Plant: Asiatic Lily "Monte Negro" Source: Van Bourgondien Quantity: 6 Planted: 5/27/04 Blooms: Early June Notes: These were much more orange than I was expecting, so I pulled them at the end of the summer to make room for other plants.
