At 02:48 PM 1/23/2006, you wrote: >Check the wiki, Dennis. > >There you will see some photos of Lilium grayi growing in my garden. Wow! Is there anything you DON'T grow? :-) >Seed of Lilium grayi and seed of Lilium pardalinum germinate under very >different conditions. They both germinate hypogeally, but Lilium grayi seed >requires roughly three months of moist WARM conditions to form a tiny bulb. >Then, after about three months of cold conditions, it produces the first >leaves. This was my problem. I kept them moist during winter months but dry during summer months (thinking I was doing them a favor). Did you grow yours from seed? How long till they reached maturity? >Note that the name is properly grayi, not grayii. > >Lilium grayi may well be a relict species: it seems to grow much more >vigorously far to the north of its current natural range. That is a new term for me. But it makes sense if they got pushed southward with the glaciations. Dennis in Cincinnati