Orienpet Lily

Orienpet Lily
Lilium 'Touching'
(LIL-ee-um)
Synonyms: Oriental-Trumpet Lily

Here is another Lily to kick off the Today’s Flower meme for this year. This flower is a hybrid between the Chinese Trumpet and Oriental Hybrid Lilies. It sure was a pleasure to have in the garden, as it seems to exhibit some of the best qualities of each species. ‘Touching’ has an interesting coloring and the flowers are large and fragrant. Although 'Touching’ was listed as growing 12 to 18 inches but my experience was a lot taller like 3 to 4 feet tall. Most of the Orienpet Lilies are hardy to USDA Zone 4 if you mulch them. Good news for northern gardeners.

Since I have culling through all of the photos that I took this year there will be a mixed bag of stuff posted here until we get back to Hawaii and have some ‘fresh’ flowers to post. We leave in 3 weeks and a day for a three island extravaganza including Oahu, Maui and the Big Island. Since the winter has kind of locked us down here so far I am just ticking off the days. Since this flower often shows up in floral arrangements I often wondered what it is. This fall at Kiku Chrysanthemum Show at the NYBG it was finally revealed to be Chrysanthemum ‘Yoko Ono’. The green coloring on the flowers is nice and different.


I was going to post a Daylily but realized that was last week’s Today’s Flower. There are still plenty of Daylily photos in reserve and I am toying with the idea of having a little festival later this month. So instead of a Daylily here is a Dahlia. It is called ‘Hot Shot’ and that was a good name for it. I couldn’t really find any information on the cultivar but do remember it being a striking color.


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