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Plant Collector: The golden-rayed lily of Japan (Lilium auratum)
The wonderfully fragrant auratum lily hybrids - hybridising and raising from seed keeps the plants healthy and reduces problems with virus The golden-rayed lily of Japan – what a beautifully evocative...
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Tikorangi Notes: Friday 3 February, 2012
Our pregnant gecko, Glenys, is back in view Latest posts: Friday 3 February, 2012 1) The battle with the water weeds in Abbie’s column this week. 2) One for the dendrologists in Plant Collector this...
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Summer is for lilies
Auratum lilies in the summer border Flowers mark the seasons for gardeners. To us, autumn means nerines. Winter is for camellias, late winter brings snowdrops, bluebells and magnolias. Spring means...
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January bulbs for mid summer
Regular readers will know that we are very keen on bulbs here. As I surveyed the January ones, I figured that most bulbs are stars on their day. I guess because they are both seasonal and transient,...
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The January Garden
Auratums and pink lobeliaI don’t cut many flowers to bring indoors. It feels a bit like murdering them to sever them in their prime and bring them indoors to die. We were lucky that Mark’s parents had...
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Tikorangi Notes, Feb 8, 2015: In search of a missing tennis ball
New dog Dudley lacked application when it came to searching for his missing tennis ball in the shrubberyWhen we first plant a garden, we all experience impatience – waiting for the plants to settle in,...
View ArticleGarden diary February 5, 2017 – all about flowers this week
I shall ignore the weather, bar noting that we had over 100ml of rain on Thursday night and while we get some sunny days, this is not summer as we know it. As we enter February, we may just have to...
View ArticleI have measured out my year in flowers, not my life in coffee spoons (as did...
Finally, December is marked by the Higo iris down in the meadow in our park. What prettier way to end the calendar year? And gardening being what gardening is, we start the cycle again with a new year.
View ArticleLily time in the Garden of Jury
Auratum lily time is a delight, a joy even. Showy, over the top, flamboyant but glorious. And we are just entering these weeks of glory. We grow lilies in the better lit areas of woodland. They can get...
View ArticleRedoing the auratum lily border
More fool me. The lily border is about 30 metres long and up to 2 metres wide. A few days in and I worked out I could achieve about 1.5 lineal metres a day. I had a lot of time to do the maths, you...
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