I have for trade Oriental Lily mix seeds (Commercial from T's Flower's & Things). I also have Oriental Lily that are dark pink from my garden. These are very fragrant. I am open to trades, interested in perennials nothing common. Please make an offer and I will let you know. THanks

My lilies were pretty good this year, but I do water. We had a LOT of water in late May, then thru into June. People couldn't get their hay in. We had about a month of fairly cold winter, good frozen ground, down deep. It didn't happen until Feb. I would call it a pretty mild winter, hardly any weather below zero F. The early lilies came and went quickly in that rain. They were a bit short, not tiny though and on older bulbs. I only planted a few new bulbs of any kind last year. The new ones did nothing but foliage, but they were small so no surprise there. Ebay purchases. All the rest of my lilies have been pretty wonderful, just seems they go fast in our heat and humidity this season. My raised beds seem to need more watering, have better drainage. I plant a lot of smaller Allium, different kinds, in there to protect the bulbs. Also have the Tulip Imperials, in that bed, really stinky bulbs, for bulb protection of real Tulips from mice and voles. Our squirrels have plenty of nuts and seeds, don't seem to bother the bulbs much if dirt is not disturbed. I leave my Tulips in place over summer so this works OK. My Trumpet lilies were about normal size, plenty of blooms, along with the Tiger lilies, Orientals and the now blooming Orienipets. The Orienipets are in their 2nd summer, so I thought 5ft, 25 blooms a stem, was a good show for them. I do like the color, gentle scents. PLUS, I am the only one with them or any lilies in the neighborhood!! We get a lot of bike riders, some walkers, going by who compliment me on the flowers, great smells. Always nice to hear!! I am real busy at beheading all stems which are done blooming. I don't want to waste plant energy on growing seeds, so I cut off all the tops as blooms disappear. Might be helpful to those small lilies this year, send the energy back to making better bulbs. I do think most of my garden stuff was ahead this year, bloomed early. Much came and went very quickly, maybe the humidity, though we have had GREAT weather locally. Really only terribly hot the last couple weeks. Getting pretty dry though we are getting some showers, enough to even make puddles. I would say we are still in drought. Trees are showing stress, dry, leaves falling, brown edges. Better luck next year, hope that rotten red lily bug doesn't arrive with next season of growth. Much complaining about it from Eastern folks.

Maybe there is a misunderstanding ? Oriental lilies do not develop bulbils (offsets) on the stems. Typically asiatic lilies and tiger lilies will do this. Oriental lilies can develop seeds, however. The seeds develop inside the embryo of the flower (big puffy seed pods will develop where flower used to be). You can harvest the seeds when the pod turns brown (late fall). After you have harvested the seed pods, break them open over a piece of paper and you will find many disc like falkes. If you hold the flakes (seeds) up to light only some of them will have something "inside" them. If the flakes are clear (empty) then they are not fertile and should be discarded. Only some seeds (flakes) will be good. If the lily has not been visited by bees at all, none of the flakes may be any good. You will have to try and chance it. The best way is to put the seeds in a plastic bag (ziplock) of slightly moist seed starting mixture or cactus planting mixture. Leave plastic bag at 65-70F for 4 months keeping it barely moist. Then put in the fridge for 3 month at which time small bulbs develop. Finally bring out and plant the small bulbs 1/4" deep in small pots. Plant outdoors after last chance of frost. Oriental lilies will not create plants which are true to type (e.g. the offspring will most likely not look like the parent). It is often easier to simply scale the lily to create more lilies. You can use below link for an explanation how to do that. I started of by mentioning that some asiatic and tiger lilies (lilium lancifolium) produce bulbils at the leaf axis (along the leaves of the stem) and that orientals do not do that. Below you can see a picture of bulbils on a tiger lily. The bulbils are clones (100% identical to the mother plant) and can be planted shallowly in loose soil (mix compost or potting soil into the top 3" of soil and plant covered with 1/2" of amended soil. Then cover with 2" layer of shredded leaves in early winter, and remove this layer in early spring). The bulbils will create flowering lilies in 2-3 years. Note: bulbils are identical clones which occur on some asiatic and tiger lilies. Oriental lilies do not produce them. You have to reproduce them via seeds (which takes about 5 years to bloom) and which will not create identical results. You can also scale the oriental lily bulb as mentioned in the referenced article. Article link: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/18505/105602 Here is a picture of a lily with bulbils. The bulbils should be harvested and planted after flowering is complete. As mentioned, bulbils are not seeds but actually miniature (cloned) bulbs ready to be planted. Here is a link that might be useful: Scaling lily bulbs - article

Looks like iron chlorosis. Here is an older posting that talks about it. Have you had unusually wet weather and is you soil quite clayey? Try googling iron chlorosis, you'll get lots of information on what to do about it. I have been fortunate to not have had this problem yet. With the excess of rain we have endured, I've got botyris on a few lilies instead. Flora Here is a link that might be useful: Yellowing asiatic liliy leaves