Lilium 'tirreno'

Lilium Longiflorum x Asiatic hybrid 'tirreno', growing in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens.

 

This was a new discovery for me, which is always exciting! It was in an area holding no other interst at this time of year, and hence why I've never spotted it. I like to vary up my walks a bit or I only see the same things year after year - and they are always adding to the collection (and yes uprooting/destroying some of my old favourites at times), and different trees find different levels of favour with birds from one year to the next (I'm no expert, but I put it down to variance of other food sources / populations / competition with other birds and vermin).

 

This is straight out of camera, not edited / cropped or sharpened for low-res social media platforms.

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