Re: Candy Lily

 

About 30 years ago I bought a pack of Candy Lilies from Parks.  The seedlings had flowers about 1.5 inches wide.  The plants took no care once established.  they had many flowers, each only open a day or two (thhis was a long time ago) but there were many flowers per plant so the show lasted quite a while.
Most of the seedlings had different shades of yellow through orange to almost red.  Most had darker spots.  A few plants were spotless.
They were very nice but didn't put on the show that TBs aor ABs did.  I didn't take them with me when I moved, like I did my ABs.
Walter

From: Sean Zera <zera@umich.edu>
To: iris-species@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-species] Candy Lily
 
It seems to me that all the Ãnorrisii I've ever seen have had about 1.5 to 2-inch flowers. Various garden centers around here occasionally sell gallon pots of seedlings as well as the cultivar 'Sangria'. The seedlings seem to vary a lot in stem height, tepal width and general vigor. The flowers are invariably domestica/Belamcanda shaped, with tepals all the same color and usually spotted.

I really like the (less common) plants with tepals of alternating colors, as well as the Probst hybrids that retain the flower shape of dichotoma.

Sean Z
Zone 6a
SE Michigan

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