ユリなど Lilies etc

紅筋山百合および素芯オニユリが開花しています。

The typhoon No.7 seems to be gone at last.  The Red Yamayuri and Spotless Tiger Lily have started to flower.

この紅筋山百合は先の冬にオクで球根を落札したものです。

I bought the bulb of this Red Yamayuri during last winter on the Yahoo! auction site.

出品時の開花写真では花びらがピンクのものが載っていましたが、実際に咲いてみると白地に赤い筋でした。6月19日の記事の花と似ているけど、今日の花は赤い筋に黄色っぽい部分が全く入りません。

なお、オリエンタルユリに「ディジー」というのがありますが、そちらは山百合とは異なり強健で育てやすいそうです。対して、紅筋山百合は気難しくて、今年咲いているものは３回目の挑戦です。球根を買ってから２シーズンしか持ったことありません。

The photo on the auction site showed flowers with pink petals and red steaks, but these actual flowers have white petals.  They look similar to the flower shown on the posting of June 19th.  However, these current flowers have solid red streaks whereas the previous ones had red streaks with a little bit of yellow.

For the record, there is an Oriental lily variety called 'Dizzy' which is said to be very tough and easy to look after.  In contrast, Red Yamayuri plants are very particular, and I have failed twice in the past.  Those Red Yamayuri plants I had in the past lived and flowered for 2 seasons, after which the bulbs simply disappeared in the soil.

第１花： Flower No.1

第２花：Flower No.2

こちらは素芯オニユリ。球根が充実すると、１本の茎に着く花の数が年々増えてきます。

These are spotless tiger lilies.  When the bulbs are mature, the number of flowers per stem increases every year.

種から育てているローゼル。これは「パープル」に分類されるタイプで、ガク全体が赤くなります。去年 苗を買って育てたのは「レッド」のタイプで、ガクの底辺を囲むフリルのような部分が緑色だったので、今年用に全体が赤くなるパープルの種を買いました。

ローゼルの種は播いたあと1週間ほどで発芽が始まりましたが、その後は全然育ちませんでした。よほど猛暑が好きな植物らしく、梅雨前に暑い天気が続いてやっと成長し始めました。

This is a roselle that I have grown from a seed.  It belongs to the 'purple' category - the whole calyx becomes red.  The roselle plant I bought last year was 'red' and its calyx had a green base, which I did not like.  So, I bought 'purple' variety seeds for this year.

When I sowed the seeds, they started to germinate only after one week.  However, I saw little change after that.  It seems that they love extreme heat and they wait until the climate is right before they start growing.  So, when we had a hot spell right before the rainy season started, it grew quickly to this height.  Now that we are in the middle of the rainy season and daily maximum temperature hovers around 25℃, this plant is doing nothing.

こちらは7日前に掘り上げたナツメのひこばえです。連日の雨天のおかげで萎れることなく生存しています。鉢上げの際 地面の上に露出した部分は相変わらず白いですが、葉っぱの色が若干濃い緑色になってきたので、このまま育ちそう。

This is the jujube sucker that I potted 7 days ago.  Thanks to the continuous rain since then, the young plant has not withered.  Although the bottom part that got exposed to the air when I potted it has not become woody and remains white, the colour of the leaves has become darker green, which gives me hope that this plant may survive.