Re: I bought a Tiger lily at Home Depot
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- Subject: Re: [SG] I bought a Tiger lily at Home Depot
- From: C* P*
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:43:28 EDT
In a message dated 4/1/01 11:17:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, cajun4@HOME.COM
writes:
<< I bought a Tiger lily at Home Depot. It's orange, in a quart pot, and so
beautiful.
Is there any special care that I have to take for this lily, or is treating
it like a daylily O >>
Hi Joe,
I have no idea what lilium lancifolium will do in Louisiana but it is not a
daylily. Lilies require good drainage, a slope is ideal.
This tiger lily if labelled L.. lancifolium willif it likes your garden
multiply rapidly by mean of bulbils formed in the leaf axil. These are small
black rounded fertile bulbils that will sprout nearly everywhere.
I have read all my life that this lily carries a virus that will infect and
eventually destroy other species of lilies. Experience in my garden would
confirm this. Asiatic lilies seem to go along for quite a few years with no
sign of virus but orientals sicken and die in a two or three years -
sometimes less. My garden has tiger lilies all over it and has for years so
the progress is probably more rapid.
Still, the tiger lily is beautiful and strong and produces stalks with dozens
of blooms. It is super cut flower. The best sort is the orange one, it is
the most vigorous. Again, a negative for the tiger, a lot of gardeners do
not like orange flowers.
Claire Peplowski
NYS 4
