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Having a wander around the car boot/flea market this Saturday, I espied a Lily form that has been known and grown (in a small way) in gardens here for a couple centuries, commonly called Lilium lancifolium flore pleno although the mutation is possibly viral and the jury is still out on L. lancifolium as a proper name for all so called Tiger lilies.
As you can see the flower isn't yet fully open, you either like it or hate it, it's not really a middle ground plant. Isn't this the way with other old cultivars and forms? My Pompom Aquilegia is another such love or hate thing, again known in Victorian times, nearly lost to cultivation, the genes survived in one way or another. Calendula hens and chicks form or Greenheart orange (another popular with Victorians) are again forms that you may find hideous or pleasingly unusual. I've heard people pretend nausea when they see Plantago major 'Rosularis' and yet adore a double Viola odorata.
No accounting for taste :)
This message was edited Aug 1, 2004 7:24 PM
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