Lily Wolga for Georgie & Windy

[MrsKP]

As you can see, my original Wolga wasn't quite as perfect as last year's off the same plant, a bit of petal damage whilst still in the bud, and only one bloom where last year I got three off one stem !  I'm still sure it's a Casa Blanca though, maybe B&Q give their own name to it !

I'm hoping the other buds turn out as Casa Blanca's as well.  Similar leaf shape and size of bud, but alas no labels on these ones and no idea where i got them from !! A mixed bag I think  :o

;D

[MrsKP]

[Chocolate]

They are lovely, do you grow them in tubs as I would like to grow them in the open at the 'lottie. It is a bit windy up there but I could stake them couldn't I   ???
Do you just leave them in the ground throe' the winter ??
For years I have looked for a Maddona Lily one that used to be used for funerals with the powerfull smell, sorry to be depressive, do you know where I could find one ??

[Robert_Brenchley]

The one currently used for funerals is Lilium longiflorum, which ive seen on sale many times; it's supposed to be rather tender. The old Madonna lily is Lilium candidum, not quite so easy to come by, and supposedly a bit difficult to establish and rather vulnerable to virus. A decent bulb specialist should have them.

[Georgie]

Nice pic, MrsKP, and I see that you are growing Alstro too, another of my favourites.   ;D

Yes Chocolate, you can certainly grow lilies in open ground and stake them.   :)

G x

[Chocolate]

Thanks  I remember the old funeral lilies as a child the perfum wafting over grandads 'lottie wonderfull
The chap a few rows up from Gd's could have been a funeral director then.
Grandad had about three 'lotties that he ran to keep his massive family fed from the 1920s until he died when he was 94yrs old.He just about lived there to my grandmas relief  :-\
He had a shed like a sitting room with a little cooker in it and another one for the loo!!  There was nothing that he didn't grow there, he then brought it home for Gran to cook on the old range that had to be black leaded, the kettle seemed always to be on happy days oh I can go on cant I. Will shut up now   :D