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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 these things multiply quickly, so I should have a bunch again in no time. |
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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 sunner location in the back garden to make room for a patio extension. |
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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 completely strip the foliage off of the stems. |
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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 are in with this grouping, and 30 more are behind the back garden closer to where the rabbits like to hang out. Some of the later-blooming flowers are pale pink with 18 - 24 petals each. |
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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. |
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Plant: Asiatic Lily Mix - Pink
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 10
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) |
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Plant: Asiatic Lily Mix - White
Source: Van Dyck's
Quantity: 10
Planted: 4/26/05
Blooms: Early June
Notes: See notes for Asiatic Lily Mix - Pink above. |
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Plant: LA Hybrid Lily "Samur"
Source: Langeveld
Quantity: 9
Planted: 4/13/06
Blooms: Mid-June
Notes: Planted in side garden. Coming up very well. These are a soft pink flower with slightly spongy petals. |
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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 like this one. Like most of our lilies, these were twice as tall their second season.
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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. This poor thing gets eaten by rabbits, and only one bloom appeared in 2005, but they did much better in 2006 and all of the stems produced multiple blooms. These are very prettty dwarf lilies less than two feet tall. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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Plant: Double Oriental Lily "Miss Lucy"
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 3
Planted: 6/1/06
Blooms: Early 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. The blooms are absolutely beautiful -- pure white with pink spots.
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Plant: Madonna Lily
Source: Van Bourgondien
Quantity: 1
Planted: 10/9/04
Notes: Free with purchase. 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. I don't get it. Will this thing ever do anything? |
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Plant: Oriental Lily "Purple Sensation"
Source: Park's Gardens
Quantity: 3
Planted: 5/23/07
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.
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