Oriental Lily named Starfighter #5
by J McCombie
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Oriental Lily named Starfighter #5
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J McCombie
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Closely resembling it's sister counter part Stargazer, its' dark red petals have a wide, white edge and burgundy spots, accenting the raspberry dark pink colored petals. Large, puffy colored buds face upwards. Originally bred for the cut flower industry and like it's sister Starfighter, its' upward facing star-shaped flowers make it ideal for bouquets and container growing. Easily forced for indoor blooming.
The most beautiful and fragrant flowers in the world of lilium are to be found among the Oriental lilies, with their happy personalities, huge exotic flowers, incredible scent or intense fragrance, and late blooming rich colors. Your garden will come alive with this rich mixture of bright colored blooms and sweet fragrance. Enormous, fragrant flowers in many vibrant shades including but not limited to yellow, red, pink, crimson, pure white, pink-and-white, and many more! Growing and blooming on strong, straight stems in July and August on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Hardiness Zone Map ... the show is breathtaking, the perfume intoxicating.
Oriental lily heights vary from 3ft to 5ft (and sometimes taller), and the flowers may be bowl-shaped or flat-faced, lacy petal edges, sometimes with recurved petals and many other forms. Use vibrant Oriental Lilies to fill spaces in flower borders or make an even more outstanding show and plant a dozen or two in the cutting garden, making the most flamboyant, extravagant bouquet. With intoxicatingly fragrant star-shaped flowers, it is superb for cutting and just one stem is often enough to make an elegant centerpiece of bouquet.
They prefer a rich, moist soil on the acidic side, with similar needs to Rhododendrons. Each bulb will produce more and more flowers every year, eventually producing more stems as well. Clumps may be divided after a few years by digging up the bulbs in mid autumn, separating them and replanting to a new location.
Oriental hybrids (Division VII). These are based on hybrids within Lilium section Archelirion, specifically L. auratum and L. speciosum, together with crossbreeds from several species native to Japan, including L. nobilissimum, L. rubellum, L. alexandrae, and L. japonicum. They are fragrant, and the flowers tend to be outward facing. Plants tend to be tall, and the flowers may be quite large. The whole group are sometimes referred to as "stargazers" because many of them appear to look upwards. (For the specific cultivar, see Lilium 'Stargazer'.)
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October 29th, 2014
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