Lilium martagon rebloom
Jane McGary (Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:01:45 PDT)

The historically hot and very dry weather of the past few months in the
US Northwest has made a number of plants behave differently than usual.
One surprise coming with cooling temperatures is that a Lilium martagon
in the garden, which had flowered in late spring as usual and withered,
has sent up a second scape and opened some flowers. I've never had a
lily species do this before. Has anyone else seen such behavior?

This particular martagon lily was grown from seed obtained from a Czech
collector, who wrote that it came from an "orange-flowered" population
in Siberia. My plant's flowers are not what I could call "orange," but
they are different from the usual pink or white shades, being a sort of
muddy buff. Not a gem, but certainly an eccentric.

Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, USA