I just read about the fizz phenomena a few weeks ago on ATP someone said it was a early bloom stage called pubescence no joke. Asiatics have this too.

Not all martagons are fuzzy, and martagons are not the only lilies that display it. I'm splitting hairs here, but the phenomenon is best described as lanate (dense, curly, wavy, and entangled long hairs). Pubescence would be short straight hairs.

Some more examples:

Oh Lefty, must you always split hairs?

There always has to be one in the bunch.

It might as well be me.....

O K you martagon lovers,I have these that were planted 3 years ago and bloomed so beautifully last year


Its an awful pix of last years leaves ,but my question is about the leaves on this years growth.
They seem to be lighter in color and some tips are turning yellow. We have had ample rain and the area was composted last winter.

Welcome LInda. I love the martagons, but don't seem to have what it takes to grow them. Seeing some great looking ones on this thread.

I've "decide" that nearly all the martagon lilies in my first batch of seed I grew (from a seed exchange) were apomicticly produced. They are identical in every way. (The original seed packet was a mix from more than one donor.)

These are each a different seedling. They continue to reflex as they mature.

But there were a few different ones from that batch.


Now this round is more interesting.....

Excuse the neighbor's dying spruce branches in the background. I have permission to cut them back now, and I'll do it in another month.









The spots on this bud stood out so strongly that I had to take a pic.

Very nice bunch of marties.

they are nice! The white with the strong spotting is my favorite.

Very nice and a lot of patience you have. The spotted bud is so delightful.

Rick, not to deter from the nice Marts but I've got two spruce trees that look like your neighbors. The DNR guy told me that Spruce are becoming diseased with mites and I better start Spraying. He said a lot of native Spruce out West are dying from it. Have you heard that?

I particularly like the non-spotted flowers with the very clear colors... and the pure white one!

Patience is something I do have, but when you have lots of stuff going on (lots of different lilies and different kinds of plants), I am really not "waiting". I am to the point now that sometimes when something blooms, I've forgotten I still had it!
By the way, the white one is NOT a Lilium martagon album. It is a hybrid that happens to be white.

Regarding the spruce mites, I have heard of, but not seen them. My neighbor's spruces are Colorado spruce that by definition are intolerant of shade. For a long time, I kept my Korean Euodia tree trimmed away from them because I knew they wouldn't tolerate the shade, but as they grew into my "air space" and shaded my lily box more and more, I said to heck with that! So now the Colorado spruces (and my box) are lightly shaded by the Korean Euodia, and the spruces branches - not the whole trees - are dying.

Really love those marts. What a great setting for the fat buds to stand out!

While Lilium martagon is on the downhill side of blooming, other lilies of the martagon section are in full swing.
Here are some of my hybrid results:

These are from a few different Lilium 'Super Tsing' seed pods that were open pollinated. I had very few compatible suitors back when the union occurred (2008). It's pretty clear these were pollinated by the natural hybrid that often masquerades as Lilium tsingtauense - but is really a hybrid of Lilium tsingtauense and Lilium disticum (and/or Lilium medeoloides).
The best ones...






I had done several crosses of Lilium martagon 'Amelita' (graciously received from Ramona) with pollen from Lilium 'Super Tsing' and had very poor success: only one pod grew. This one I had labeled as a dirty pollination. It had been open and unprotected (from pollinating insects or hummingbirds) for about an hour before I pollinated and covered it so no further contamination could occur. It's a little early to speculate on what the parent(s) might be. The variety is stunning. For most of these, this is the first time they have bloomed. As Super Tsing is half Lilium martagon (of unnamed genetics), it is possible there was no contamination at all. But either way, I'm really excited! I've been doing a lot of pollinating now, especially with that last one!

Wow! What a fantastic bunch of seedlings. I wonder if your intended pollen benefitted from a little contamination that acted as incidental mentor? The flower forms are so fresh. I especially love the spidery lemon. What a sublime baby.

Rick, you got all that variation from the one cross? If so that's crazy.
I love this one.

You have some nice selections there.

ge1836 is it possible your lilies have a virus? The leaves don't look right.