Terri Dunn

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Here are some pix of my newest beauty...
Terri Dunn

Tim

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Two more shots

Tim

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I bought this last Saturday. It is highly Viviparous. I am already groing out a pad with Sean's patented light growing system.( Well I'm glad he didn't patent it so we don't all have to pay royalties LOL).

Tim

[Teresa]

She's gorgeous!  I really love purple lilies . . . .

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If only the top of the pads looked like the bottom. Notice how intense the maroon color is underneath. The flower is even interesting before it opens. It is highly spotted almost like the Star of Siam on the sepals.
Tim

[Sean]

You should have many viviparous nodes to start plants from and nurture over winter.

Cheers,
Sean

[Craig]

Lol...that is an understatement, Sean!  From what I've been told, Bill Frase said it was a selection of micrantha and not a hybrid...the thing is a weed.

Can I ask what is the wide spread fascination with viviparous lilies?  They just leave me cold.  I think I've gotten rid of most of mine, except maybe Peach Blow and Blink.  Peach Blow I keep because I have provenance and bogus ones are showing up and Blink, I kinda, sorta have an arrangement to grow that one for the originator.

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Craig,
My own reason for liking the vivips is that I can recreate it almost at will without going through a growing/ starvation season. I had a business license but never thought it worth thr hassle to get an Ag license. Almost $200 in fees in Tx. plus all of the red tape. I tried to contact you months ago inquiring about your lilies but since no Ag license I was not a candidate for you to do business with and I understand that but that makes it tough and expensive to get some of the harder to find lilies. I even worked on Rolf Nelson for over a year to try and get him to get me some of your stock. I finally got some through the members of this board just a few months ago. Terri Dunn is an example of the expense. It is a beautiful specimen but I had to pay full retail...$59.99 from Rolf. Having acquired 20 new varieties and species this year you can see how expensive it has been. Now if I can turn around and grow out and sell some lilies it helps offset my growing costs.

As an aside, one of the lilies I got is supposed to be your Caliente. Your site shows it as pale yellow. The one I have is white, it tinges pink when it gets cooler nights but stays white if warm. The pads are multi colored reds. I have it setting next to my ampla right now and the flower stucture is very close except for the Caliente has more petals. Can you confirm or deny if this is the Caliente?

[Craig]

Hi Tim,

I understand to an extent that aspect of the vivip...but I guess it is a matter of personal taste and I find them generally mediocre at best.  Some of what I find to be more desireable lilies really aren't all that hard to propagate....Director George T. Moore, for example.

I ran into Rolf this past summer at Kit and Ben Knotts....one of the most genuinely nice people I've run across in the business, and his grower Mike never fails to impress me.  Fwiw, I find them both to be as interested in the plants themselves as in the business of selling them.  But having said that, we have not crossed business paths, so as you know Rolf really doesn't have much in the way of my hybrids. 

I'd have to say what you have is Caliente, based on the pads I have little if any doubts.  When primed it is a pale yellow, but it loves heat, so in cool weather and when not sufficiently fed it will go to white.  And I'm not saying you haven't properly fed it, just that in the cool nutrient, uptake slows. watch and see what it does next summer.  It is half ampla like WBG...and they thrive at high temps.

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Thanks for your reply. I thought it looked enough like my ampla that it wasn't just a coincidence. I got two Director Moore's earlier this year and love the way they look. I hope to get them to tuber. It is alternating between cool nights and warm days here now so they are still producing but not as heavy as a month ago.
Tim