The lilies have started to bloom here too, at last, and I agree that the botanical species are the best.
Here some from today
Lilium pyrenaicum
Lilium monadelphum
Lilum pumilum
and Lilium sp from Himalaya,, can anyone come up with a name for it? From the SRGC forum I have learnt that this one may be L. bakerianum or a ssp of it.