Fred Tarlton’s Asiatic ‘Cool Breeze’.
have gained stock, insight and mentor- ship. Fred Tarlton registered one of the first up-facing yellow Asiatics, a lily he named ‘Amulet’. In 1977 he won the NALS David Griffiths award for best unnamed hybrid seedling grown from seed, which he later registered as ‘Cori- anne’ for his granddaughter. He also has some well know martagon cultivars, ‘Moonyeen’ and ‘Sarcee’ being two of them. ‘Moonyeen’ routinely garners awards, wherever it is shown. ‘Sarcee’ is a luscious, deep crimson-black lily. Alex Burnett, Dr. Eugene Fox, Terry Willoughby, Dr. Ieaun Evans and many other lily growers were all influenced by these early pioneers and have used some of the early cultivars from these and other Canadian hybridizers to create their own new hybrids. ‘Ace of Spades’ all the way to ‘Yellow
Joy’ encompass 180 registered Alberta hybridized lilies published in Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society registry
‘Yellow Joy’, a Fred Fellner hybrid.
‘Lily Simonet’ hybridized by Robert Simonet, “rescued” and registered by Fred Fellner.
and supplements to date. 1953 is the earliest Alberta registered lily, show- ing that hybridizing was going on well before this date. By some accounts at the end of the Second World War when there was time for such pursuits, the gardening community turned to improving the work of lily pollinators. Many lilies were registered by Alber- tans for other hybridizers and there are many more newly registered Alberta lilies, as yet unpublished, in recent hybridizing efforts. The simplest way to view the variety
and abundance of the lily world is to attend a lily show in your area. The best of the best in bloom at that time are lovingly plucked from gardens for show. Many of Alberta’s hybridizers attend NALS annual show with promising seedlings and have won major awards. The best of the best make the awards table: the votes from top national lily judges is great recognition of the hard
work of hybridizers. It may take 10 or more years of being assessed before a hybrid seedling is
registered, and
many top hybridizers rely on the criti- cal judging acknowledgement to make their final decision about registration. Twenty Alberta hybridizers have regis- tered their lily seedlings in the Royal Horticultural Society registry. Three or four of these are still actively hybrid- izing. Fred Fellner, though, has stated he is not planting any more seeds. In his energetic hybridizing years, he had more than 10,000 lilies growing in his fields. There are also many non-registered
lilies hybridized by Albertans in circu- lation. John Sterenberg, of these grow- ers, was recognized for his contribu- tions to the genus lilium by ARLS on his 100th birthday in 2010. The Alberta Regional Lily Society is
working with Alberta’s botanic gardens to create heritage beds of lilies where
‘Pink Peach’ a Fellner hybrid.
Photo by Kelley Toews for ARLS.
Photo by Laurie Hepper
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