Day Lily and Oriental Lily together

I miss mine, in Italy they were in bloom on late june untill july now I have only two little 'perfection pink' variety with flowers!

Oh dear, sorry Lia, hope you enjoyed the picture it is sad when you have to leave a garden with lovely plants in it. Whereabouts are you now? My knowledge on flags is not good. Can you plant any in your garden where you live now or would they not survive?

olive oil Im still in the same place. Italy Abruzzo.
I ment that mine are not more in

flower!
do you leave them in the ground ore do you store them in winter

I leave them in the ground, all the plants I have here in the cottage garden have to stay in the ground, I do not have the time to lift things or storage space so everything has to cope with the winter months. Usually everything is ok in the ground I do get odd casualties depending on how severe the weather gets. I understand now what you were saying, yours have finished flowering and mine are just starting to flower. lol. :O) Hope we get some nice weather still to see us into the winter months. Last summer was dreadful and it just rolled into winter and then the same into spring. Consequently we were all down in the dumps no sunshine and everyone was feeling miserable. We all missed the sunshine so much last year. Been much better this summer, lots of lovely sunshine with some rain to help with the plants. Much better weather for us gardeners. :O)

What a pretty picture Barbara. I do love lilies!

thank you Olive for the answer.
I do the same as you, I leave the bulbs in the ground and they do well,

Thank you Melchi :O) I love the variety of colours we can get and that perfume is amazing. :O)

I take it the Oriental Lily is the perfumed one, Olive?

It is yes Mouldy, it can be smelled right up at the top of the garden when in flower. Beautiful perfume. thank you :O)

Sadly, before I knew Orientals were the scented ones, I chucked in lilies without checking.
Mouldy makes 'Classic beginners' mistake No 936'

I am a lot further on the list than that Mouldy, somewhere in the 1,000 for me lol :O) we all have to learn from our mistakes, and oh boy as it cost me some money whilst learning. lol

Next year I'll intersperse scented lillies, then gradually plant my non-scented ones in the neighbouring gardens, 'til we have a balance between the three.
Probably a daft question, Olive, but how do lilies reproduce?

You can grow them by taking a bit off of the bulbous thingy but it takes a time to get them to the size to flower. Also you could collect seed from them but again it takes a long time to get to the flowering stage. Now that is why they are expensive because it takes the g.c. time to get them up and going. Have done the little bit off the bulb thingy and they do grow but not flower. Worth having a go though if you have time on your hands. lol. :O)

I was hoping they'd be like daffs or crocosmias & do all the hard work for me, Olive. Lol.