Latest lilies besides Rubrum?

18 years ago

After planting rubrum lilies at least 4 years ago, in 2 different gardens, this was the first year they actually bloomed in my main garden. I thought they had died out: I have so many other lilies that they must have been making leaves all along and I didnÂt know they were there. But this year they have paid me back for the wait: each stem had many flowers, and as late as it is, I STILL have a few blooming. They started while my orientals were still going; overlapping with Black Beauty but blooming for a much longer time.

Is there anything else I can get this will bloom this late? I thought of trying some album (assuming those bloom as late as the rubrum), is there anything else? Right now almost everything else I have (in perennials) are some shade of pink, like my Alma Potschke aster and some pink phlox. I could use something (for both a late lily and perennials) that isnÂt pink. Even the dahlias I planted nearby turned out to be pink to magenta. (The location seemed fine when I planted them, when everything in that area was blue!)

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vickster257
18 years ago
Hi Linnea,

I can only tell you what is still blooming in my garden now would be Helenium aka Sneezeweed. It has different colors yellow, rust/gold, and bronze tones. They are quite nice and bloom only in the fall. Japanese Anemone come in white, rose and pink with a gold center. Mums are traditional and are in various colors which you are familiar with. I love my various Sedums and while they may start out with a pink or rosy color flower, they do turn to burgundy and the foliage color varies with the variety.hydrangea paniculata, Montauk Daisy, and also foliage plants with deeper colors in the autumn.

I have lilies but none of them bloom this late in the season which I am aware of. My daylily has just rebloomed.
Sorry I can't be of assistance to you as far as the lilies are concerned.
Vicki
Mystery_Gardener
18 years ago
Hi:

The Alba blooms at the same time as the rubrum, both are flowering right now in our garden. Sometimes they are up-facing as in the second photo. I have not seen any lilies later than these. Our 'Black Beauty' (A hybrid of Lilium speciosum rubrum and L. henryi) has just finished blooming. It is the second last one to bloom to the rubrums.

Lilium speciosum rubrum 'Alba'.
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Cheers,
MG

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linnea56 (zone 5b Chicago)
Original Author
18 years ago
Beautiful! Thanks for the pictures! I love the form. For some reason I think I notice it more when there is no color in the flower to compete for attention. I will have to get some.

They will take a little shade, right? I think I remember that rubrums will. The spot I have in mind gets crossed over by a bit of shade several times a day.
dlhjgs
18 years ago
'Uchida' blooms a little later than rubrum for me.

For companions, how about Toad Lilies, Monkshood and one of the new Big Sky Echinaceas like Sunrise(yellow)