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rosesforme
assistant gardener
Australia
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 Posted - 30/11/2008 : 20:58:10
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I have grown for the first time a lily called * Lilium Tarragona*
Its flowered now and looks very impressive:
Close up:
The plant:
My white Nov lilies are growing at the rear of the garden and are not long away from flowering.
I am waiting for my Turks Cap lily to open ..shouldn't be too long now.
I love lilies..they remind me of my grandmother who died when I was 15.
Cheers Michelle
Roses for ever.
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Mary-Anne
garden sage
Australia
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 Posted - 30/11/2008 : 20:59:56
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Very pretty Michelle.
Friends are the flowers in the garden of life
Love Your Enemies... It Will Drive Them Nuts |
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2008 : 07:16:34
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Nice ones Michelle, which reminds me a lot of mine need staking 
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2008 : 08:11:04
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They are pretty and will look good with the November lilies.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
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pitta
head gardener
Australia
1209 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2008 : 09:07:22
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Such lovely blooms, would they grow in our humidity up north .Pitta
What is that lovely blue flower, is it a around cover and is it hardy enough to suffer the tropics .Pitta |
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Gail
garden sage
Australia
7707 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2008 : 11:49:06
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Pitta, the white November Lilies, Lilium longifolium, grow in the sub-tropics ok and I've seen it mentioned somewhere (can't remember where) that they will grow in Cairns. I have them growing here successfully. If you would like to wait a while I can send you some seeds when mine have finished flowering - if they don't grow it won't be any loss. I have grown them from seed and even have one flowering now that was seed planted last year... I wasn't expecting it to flower until next year.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.
A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.
Gail, near Gympie, Qld |
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Jacqueline
assistant gardener
Australia
249 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2008 : 19:14:54
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Very very pretty. I just have the white ones, but even they never disappoint.
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rosesforme
assistant gardener
Australia
472 Posts |
Posted - 08/12/2008 : 21:48:35
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Thanks everyone!
yes ,I have just staked the Nov lilies that are shooting up at the rear of the garden. Some of them were growing on a pronounced lean!!
The perfume from the Tarragona lilies is still beautiful even though they are looking a bit bedraggled now.
Still they have lasted a long time and have been very beautiful.
Here is an updated photo,taken yesterday, 7th Dec:
I am amazed that the Turks Cap lilies haven't flowered.
They were very expensive so I hope I haven't lost them!!
I will go through two containers,they will be in one I am sure.
I wonder what happened?
Cheers Michelle
Roses for ever.
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The Estate
head gardener
Australia
3676 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2008 : 06:37:47
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Lookin good Michelle, all nice and healthy as well, well done , !!
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers;
if they don't they're weeds.
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otamot
head gardener
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Posted - 12/12/2008 : 19:08:53
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| wow michelle that's like the type of flower that makes you go "ooh, ahh" really pretty |
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rosesforme
assistant gardener
Australia
472 Posts |
Posted - 22/12/2008 : 23:32:23
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Thankyou!
Cheers Michelle
Roses for ever.
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My new lilies are out!