Wow, gorgeous!! I love the maroon accents With the deep orange. Well done!

Beautiful!! Is it the same as martagon lily?

Do you have others or was it a scale gift? It's gorgeous! I was hoping for either that or superbum or philidelphicum this year but nothing panned out.

No, it's not a martagon lily which is an european species. But the foliage looks like it (except maybe a bit more demure). It's certainly in the same botanical group as the martagons.

Lilium species (other than superbum) are pretty hard to find (and/or expensive)..even these scales were around $8,00 for essentially a small pot of dirt (no roots). This was even the first year they were more than 4 inches high.

Where did you buy the scale from?

Missourri Wildflowers, it hasn't been in stock I don't think again since.

psychedelic.

Great shot Barron.

So worth the wait though. You are right, in that patience is an absolute requirement. I have noticed that when there is a capacity for extra energy storage (corm, tuber, bulblet, or scale), it seems to act as insurance against my sporadic care. It is notable that the majority of my longer-term growing successes tend to be geophytes...lilies especially, with paeonies a close second - happy to live in a smallish pot for years without any effort apart from flicking a hose in their direction now and then.

Did you have to fuss over yours, barron? Paying $$$ always gives me an extra 'eeek' worry (mine have usually been freebies...so easy come...).

Yes indeed good things come to those who wait and it was worth waiting for. It is fabulous. I was very excited a couple of years ago to get L. philadelphicum.

Stunning!!

That's an incredible flower. You must be thrilled!

Beautiful!

I love that! I'm a sucker for growing plants from pieces or seeds and waiting years for blooms. I just had some African Iris bloom this year that I planted from seeds rescued off plants in a Kohl's parking lot 4 years ago. Also just had a 4-year old crinum seedling bloom.

I get satisfaction (financial and horticultural) by growing things from seeds or tiny plants too.

So worth it: absolutely gorgeous! How tall is it now?

I haven't actually measured, but I'd say 4 feet, which is about the max for the species. I hope to push it to 5 next year though, after all this was the first flowering year.

It's suppossed to spread stoloniferously, I'd be pleased to see more of it. I know when I had L. canadense, it slowly increased.

Err, I'm surprised you're not posting a pic of an agave :) But yes, you had to wait a while, but yours has been evident for years, where mine only made it above the grass (bermuda you know) this year.

Frankly, I'd be more than happy if my agave's never bloom. I don't want to deal with removing a lot of sharp dead carcasses and millions of babies but the day will come eventually. At least the Desert Spoon doesn't give up the ghost when it blooms. I utterly dread the day when a big patch of parryii agaves up front that are all the same age decide to bloom, probably all the same year. Its going to be a nightmare to clean up.

Cycle of life TR and all that ;) But yes, I know the pain of biennials, short-lived perennials, and monocarpics.