Thank you Jane. Lilies are popular as cut flowers here for special occasions. I have to assume they are imported from the mainlaand. I see my neighbour has a clump of white flowering lilies out now and they look well established. They are in full sun at least half the day. I will ask her what she thinks they are. Thank you all for you help on this topic. Please keep the info coming. Kind regards Darren >From: "Jim McKenney" <jimmckenney@starpower.net> >Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> >Subject: RE: [pbs] Lilly seeds and bulbs >Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 19:20:52 -0400 > > >Darren, here's another suggestion for lilies in Mexico: try the so-called >LA >or longiflorum-Asiatic hybrids. These are hybrids with Lilium longiflorum >and Asiatic hybrid (not to be confused with oriental hybrid) lilies in >their >background. In some, the Lilium longiflorum influence is not obvious at >all, >in others it is more apparent. I'm suggesting this group in particular >because some of them evidently have a very slight chill requirement. They >also look like typical commercial cut-flower lilies (unlike some of the >other lilies suggested, which suggest funerals). > > >This discussion of lilies in Mexico reminds me of a question I've been >meaning to ask. > >Lilies of the Lilium pardalinum group are known to grow far south into >California - historically right down to the Mexican border apparently. > >Does anyone know if any member of the genus Lilium is native to/grows wild >in northern Mexico - or has in recent times? > >And now that we're on the topic of Lilium pardalinum, let me get one more >thing off my chest. How many of you have noticed that some catalogs spell >this name pardelinum? I've often wondered if that is because they know that >they are not selling the true Lilium pardalinum and instead are selling one >of the once literally myriad (and now almost entirely lost or forgotten) >pardalinum hybrids. > >One more lily story: several years ago I was in Bangalore, India. Bangalore >is in southern India, not far from Mysore, one of the old centers of >British >interests in India. The Nilgiri Hills were not too far off - as the crow >flies, it was about 125 miles to Ootacamund, one of the well known sites >for >Lilium neilgherrense, and the whole time I was there I could not get Lilium >neilgherrense out of my mind. When I told an Indian friend about this, she >suggested that I hire a taxi cab for the weekend and head over. I never >made >it, and I still regret it. > >As I was typing this, Jane's email arrived: so it's now Lilium wallichianum >neilgherrense! > >Jim McKenney >jimmckenney@starpower.net >Montgomery County, Maryland, UDS, USDA zone 7, where Lilium pardalinum, >while not happy, at least persists. > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php