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The one that got away, Lilium bulbiferum. perfect regularity of shape and distribution looked like the work of man but were assuredly the work of nature. Beyond the Dom I started to encounter grassy slopes and limestone outcrops, so I felt hopeful of finding lilies. Fixing on one likely location, I found two L . martagon plants in flower, which was untypical. The flowers were mauve with generous purple spotting. Further along the path I found a small number of L . carniolicum in flower mixed with some plants of L . martagon which were not yet in flower. From what I saw in the Triglav National Park, L . carniolicum appears to flower a week or two before L . martagon. Fortunately, the local lily beetles had not yet discovered the lilies beyond the Dom, although they were within flying distance from the site of destruction I had visited two days previously. As I returned to Ribčev Laz, and my hotel, I tried to convince myself that finding two out of the three lilies of the Julian Alps was better than finding one or none. However, not finding L . bulbiferum irked me, especially as its distribution ranges from the Pyrenees in the west to Poland in the east, so, looking at things literally, it shouldn’t be too hard to find. Then I chided myself for being churlish, as I had found, a few years ago, flowering plants of L . bulbiferum in an extensive alpine meadow beside the Passo Gardena in the Dolomites. However, as an obsessive – a common characteristic of lily growers – I promised myself I would return to the Julian Alps to find my missing lily, but without the lapse of so many years for obvious reasons! 73
74 Timothy Whiteley, OBE, DL, JP Caroline Boisset writes about the recipient of the Lyttel Cup for 2011 . On 29 March 2011 the President of the Royal Horticultural Society, Elizabeth Banks, presented the Lyttel Cup to Timothy Whiteley. Tim was for ten years chairman of the Lily Group during which time he oversaw the International Lily Conference held by the Group in London in 2004. He is also one of the few lily specialists in the country to grow (mostly) species on a large scale in a natural setting. With the event of the Lily Festival that is held annually at his garden, Evenley Wood in Northamptonshire, he is contributing significantly to the understanding and popularity of the genus. Tim’s garden is no ordinary garden in the conventional sense of the word but rather one that has been hewn out of woodland. Over the years the garden has spread over the 60 acres that Tim purchased in 1980. One of the aspects about the woodland that made it an attractive proposition to a gardener, was that the pH ranges from just below 5 to just above 8, the 10 acres of acid land being the only acid land for miles around. He knew that he would be able to grow just about any plant he wanted; it was several years before he was able to acquire it but his patience was rewarded. His main interests are trees and bulbous plants and his aim has always been to have plants of interest throughout the year, perhaps one of the reasons he came to growing lilies as he found that after spring there was little else that flowers in a woodland setting. Tim Whiteley has been interested in plants and gardening since he was a child. At both his prep school and at Eton he had his own garden and he told me when I visited him recently at his home, that the headmaster of his prep school (which had moved to Bideford, in Devon, during the war) turned a blind eye to his tree climbing because he knew that he wouldn’t be able to stop him! He grew up in the area he still lives in, the youngest of three boys. His maternal grandfather, H. G. Tetley, was the chairman of Courtauld and responsible for the growth of the company from a faltering manufacturer making black crêpe to the large international company it became with the advent of the manufacture of artificial silk. It was due to this link with the Courtauld family that Tim celebrated his 21 st birthday at 11 Downing Street, when R. A. (Rab) Butler was Chancellor of the Exchequer and had married Sydney Courtauld. His father came from Yorkshire but was elected MP for Buckingham in 1938. Tim remembers that he used to grow daffodils – Tim to this day can identify old daffodil cultivars better than the more modern ones – and had a rose garden in Bletchley. Although he had a head gardener, it was his father who pruned the
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Contents Lilies of the Julian Alps
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Dr Nuala Sterling, a niece of the m
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4 3. Ping beimu from Fritillaria us
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Fritillaria ferganensis Fritillaria
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Fritillaria ussuriensis Fritillaria
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sometimes all pale yellow. Nectary
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the seedlings. However, the cross r
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Figure 3. Seedlings in 5 inch pots
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Figure 7. Left, the 7 th seedling t
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18 David Parsons and his wife Mary.
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Sandy Best, a well-known Canadian p
Page 29 and 30: Lilium polyphyllum phenological stu
Page 31 and 32: sites were marked and 10 individual
Page 33 and 34: Close up of Lilium polyphyllum flow
Page 35 and 36: ground bulb at different phenophase
Page 37 and 38: John Muir’s eloquent description
Page 39 and 40: three years before its dainty bells
Page 41 and 42: orange and red-orange at varying lo
Page 43 and 44: Lilium bulbiferum var. chaixii Lili
Page 45 and 46: grow them, the following year the r
Page 47 and 48: 40 Disease control Perhaps in moder
Page 49 and 50: colonies, are being made on a yearl
Page 51 and 52: the first plant having bloomed out
Page 53 and 54: there was a tiny seed on top of a c
Page 55 and 56: squill (which he noted as S. bifoli
Page 57 and 58: Lilium canadense hybrid. L. martago
Page 59 and 60: Above, Lilium cernuum, same species
Page 61 and 62: Nomocharis gongshanensis Y. D. Gao
Page 63 and 64: photograph © Yun-Dong Gao Nomochar
Page 65 and 66: above southernmost distributional l
Page 67 and 68: Lilium rubellum on Gorin-Daira, Shi
Page 69 and 70: Above , Example flowers of the natu
Page 71 and 72: Above, Stable Lilium japonicum popu
Page 73 and 74: First there was the Rose Phase. I d
Page 75 and 76: A group of Lilium carniolicum in th
Page 77 and 78: throw stones to attract my quarry
Page 79: a week or two away from flowering.
Page 83 and 84: unning a hunt supporters club and C
Page 85 and 86: 78 The beginnings of a national col
Page 87 and 88: ‘Angela’ ‘Rosemary’ collect
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Page 91 and 92: 6 Chinese lilies (Ch) from species
Page 93 and 94: ecause they looked alike. In the mo
Page 95 and 96: stands out is that the tepals do no
Page 97 and 98: Above, Prosartes hookeri two year o
Page 99 and 100: and flowers dangle. Streptopus, or
Page 101 and 102: ich soil in deciduous forests at lo
Page 103 and 104: Lilium mackliniae 96 A guide to bas
Page 105 and 106: A Ryirube hybrid Lilium primulinum
Page 107 and 108: lily and does well in my garden. I
Page 109 and 110: Lily seed Lily seed is transparent
Page 111 and 112: Mike Kune and Wade Hall (right) sco
Page 113 and 114: Lilium pyrophilum bulbs. divided in
Page 115 and 116: 108 In search of Lilium ledebourii
Page 117 and 118: A bulb and scales of Lilium ledebou
Page 119 and 120: Habitat of Lilium ledebourii. 112
Page 121 and 122: Lilium duchartrei situations was no
Page 123 and 124: Fritillaria affinis 91 albidiflora
Page 125: 118 Guidelines for authors Contribu
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