Rick, I have just one L. martagon plant, and I thought it came from seeds you sent me. That's why I did not individualize the origin of my Lilies when I posted the thread 'Buggycrazy, Leftwood, these are the Lilies I grew from your seeds' - I don't think I had seeds from other people than the two of you.
I sowed all my Lilium seeds when I came to live here (now 5 1/2 years ago). At that time I had no fence and thought it was great to live 'without boundaries'. Soon this proved to be a mistake. Cows and horses are allowed to freely roam around here and I thought they would be too shy to approach my house and my sowing pans (large styrofoam boxes, recycled from fish transport). Wrong! They even stepped into my sowing boxes, destroying most of them. One huge cow even dared to use the steps up to my terrace to eat the first liliums I had (purchased), bulbs included. That's why I am unable to tell who sent me the seeds that survived.
Now a question: do you think my white L. martagon plant could proceed from the 'Claude Shride' seeds you sent me? Another question: do you think my L. martagon would benefit from acid soil? It is a gorgeous Lily and I want to keep and pamper it. The only food my Lilums get is humus, naturally produced by rainworms in my alkaline soil.
BTW, this means ALL my Lilium seedlings germinated in alkaline soil, including L. pardalinum.
Unfortunately, the last pictures I took from this specific Lily last December, were on the memory card of my camera stolen from my car shortly before Christmas, and I had not downloaded them to the computer.
