Navigating the Plant Market at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show - Start at B&D Lilies

B&D Lilies in Port Townsend is bringing a batch of very special new lilies to next week's Northwest Flower and Garden Show. The Plant Market at the show can be so overwhelming - all those enticing plants calling your name...it's good to go in with a plan (and probably with a budget, but I've never achieved that yet)...starting at B&D's booth sounds like a pretty good plan...

Here are a few special new lilies that B&D is debuting at the show - most unusual is the double yellow, and my vote for an instant classic are the appealing upfacing trumpets.

Freckle-faced yet elegant 'LanKon' is the first-ever hybrid of the typical Easter lily (L. longiflorum)  and L. lankongense, an alpine native of China.  This is a really beautiful test-tube baby of a lily:

How about a brand new, double yellow lily, called 'Fifty-Fifty'?....Bob is only bringing 125 bulbs of this fragrant Orienpet to the show, so stop by the booth early....

I think I'm most excited about B&D's re-introduction of upfacing trumpet lilies. This "Angel" series includes Copper, Silver, Amethyst and Golden lilies. Bob says "It's been a long and hard journey to bring these back. Some 13 or 14 years ago, we sent breeding material of these Angles to a breeder we work with in Holland, and in the meantime lost our breeding stock to flooding....these are the first fruits of that Holland collaboration."

You'll find B&D Lilies booth in the same location as last year, toward the front of the Plant Market. Check out the program in Sunday's Seattle Times Pacific Northwest magazine to find the map and show schedule...

And here, to awaken dreams of mid-summer, are the Silver and Copper Angels...

Comments

[mspy]

At B & D Lilies do not push the bulbs but take time, an extra year, to produce a good, solid, robust bulb that is not just stored water. The bulbs are bursting with the stored food stuffs needed to produce an exceptional show the first year of planting.