One of my remaining yet-to-be-removed Tiger Lilies in bloom.
The Asiatic Lily group one of the most susceptible groups to Red Lily Beetle (as evidenced by the foliar damage) so I’m taking them out to starve them out.
Tragic but needed. At least until some kind of parasitic wasp program for red lily beetle comes up for this province like it is for places like @pacificnorthwestdoodles‘s neighbourhood/State.
I still haven’t removed this plant yet tbh. tsk tsk tsk.
One of the last and tallest remaining members of my lily collection;
Lilium ‘Black Beauty’
A heirloom hybrid between L. henryi and L. speciosum. Its oriental lily blood appears to make it less appetizing to red lily beetle.
Lilium ‘Black Beauty’ showing more where their name may have been derived from;
As their red flowers age/fade they become darker. Still nowhere near as black as modern hybrids, but I’m sure for their earlier years they were as close as an old garden could get.
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