Hardies or Tropicals?

[sooks]

Sooo I was wondering what everyone's preference is. I keep changing mine. I use to love tropicals but since I've had Mayla, I've changed my mind. 

[SueSTx]

Tropicals here have to be brought in for the winter...therefore...hardies will remain my favorite.

The color of Mayla is great.

[Freddie Peepers]

I voted tropical even though they have to be overwintered indoors
The fragrance is the key for me

[Desertponder]

The tropicals are pretty but I prefer the hardies. I've tried to overwinter tropicals several years now and its just too much of a hassle. I end up losing most of them no matter what method I used to overwinter and I just don't want to buy them every year.

[kitfoxdrvr]

Couldn't vote.  I HAVE to have both.  The hardies bloom in the cooler weather, and the trops kick in when the heat starts.  They complement each other and I would hate to choose between them.

Steve

[PondmaninAL]

I like both but the exotic tropicals are more fun. Victorias and Euryale ferox are what I call exotic tropicals.

[miguynmkoi]

I love both but I love tropical blues.

[turtlemike]

   I almost couldn't vote also because I love all lilies so much, but the argument for hardies being easier to overwinter enabled me to vote for hardies.  Of course if I lived in the tropics I probably would vote for tropicals, or just couldn't decide.
  I love the characteristics of both groups and that's why I work so hard at combining them.  I have at least 2 hardy  x  tropical cross seedlings about to put up surface leaves and more tiny plants that are VERY slow to grow from 08 seed that I've been nursing along all winter, and a couple hundred seed that haven't sprouted yet from 08.
 That, along with this years seed, which are uncounted at this point, and my increased knowledge on how to get they're teeny tiny slow growing buts into gear and growing, I hopefully can mix the two groups so that we can have plants with tropical characteristics that are hardy soon.  And vice versa.

[tranquility]

hardies for shure...I've gone thru the tropical craze but, they take up too much room in the gh and I get tired of pulling them in and out....I like the hardies much better...sure there are no blues or purples but, there are still some real show stoppers in hardies....
Lawanna

[Kat]

They both have their qualities like the hardies bloom quicker in the spring.  If I continued to live in a warm enough climate I would choose tropicals.  I could see where they would be a lot more work involved in a colder zone.  Then I'd want a heated greenhouse 

[Sean]

Tropicals all the way, I have had many many hardies and have totally switched preference to tropicals.

Cheers,
Sean

[landey1230]

Since the weather here is warm 8 months out of the year, I go with tropicals.  I keep to hardies.  A white odorata, which was my first lily and a Mayla (my favorite hardy).