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Re: bulbs

My most prolific asiatic is Connecticut King. Beautiful rich yellow color!. I've had the same exeperience as you with Orientals. So pretty but not very sturdy. My martagons are the species and Mrs Backhouse. And I love any trumpet! I've also enjoyed some of the LA hybrids - Asiatics crossed with Lilium longiflorum (Easter Lily). Even tiger lilies, got a little colony of them. I tired a modonna once. It struggled and eventually died out in a few years. 

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Hough" <bethperennial@hotmail.com> 
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: bulbs
I love lilies ! Asiatics (many of which seem to multiply like bunnies for me and provide good height and color in june), orienpets which are dependable, 
long-lived, and fragrant, orientals (most of which seem relatively shorter
lived for me, but again have marvelous fragrances), lilium rubrum which is
the latest blooming for me; trumpets (which again have great fragrance)...
have just one variety of martagons which seem to do well in a relatively
shady area...and a few misc others...

I've never tried madonna lilies - have read they should be planted
mid-summer.
Nor have I tried asiapets - last I checked, they still seemed a little pricy 


Beth
z5 northern Michigan
-----Original Message----- From: Kitty 
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 6:24 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: bulbs
From the group description, I see that we are purely a perennial discussion 
group.  Well, bulbs fall into that category, so...

I just dug up a clump of orienpets.   I had planted one nice-sized Haley's
Comet (very similar to Scheherazade) there about 6 or 7 yrs ago.  What I
came up with today were 2 big bulbs each about the size of a large
grapefruit. Also 2 slightly smaller ones and then one that's about the size a seller would send if you'd ordered it, probably 16 cm. This was my first 
orienpet, originally purchased about I'd guess 10 or 12 years ago.  It has
been very dependable and prolific, much more so than other orienpets I've
purchased since then.

Is anyone else here much into bulbs?

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5

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