Lilies are known for their beautifully perfumed scent and elegant appearance, lilies remain one of the world’s best-selling cut flowers.
With so much variety in their colour, from pure white to eye-catching red, yellow and purple, lilies are a firm favourite with florists and flower lovers alike and make a stunning addition to any bouquet.
Scientific Name: Lilium
Family: Liliaceae
Availability: All year round
'Picasso' is a rare, unusual and simply beautiful Calla lily variety, producing stunning bicolour flowers each summer. Newly formed blooms are creamy-white to begin with, then open up magically to reveal their deep-purple hearts. A real showstopper! Grow singly in pots about 10-15cm diameter, or all 3 in a 20cm diameter pot. For best results, they should be kept very warm and well watered once planted for 2 weeks to kick-start their dormancy - on a heater or an airing cupboard is fine, then once the green shoots appear, they can be placed outside. The corms are shallow, and need to be planted saucer shape up, just with a shallow 1-2cm covering of compost only. You will be rewarded with tremendous displays of sumptuous calla flowers that last for 5-6 weeks, and appear again year after year.
Breathtakingly pretty clusters of exotic, vivid pink flowers will brighten up your garden late in Autumn, just as your summer flowers are starting to fade and all else seems to be on it's last legs.! As the days shorten and skies get duller, Nerine bowdenii's firework-like flower clusters will provide stunning colour right through until Winter, and make pretty posies if cut for the vase as well. Perfect for growing in a drift in flower beds and borders, you could also grow them in big patio pots, say 25-30cm diameter with 5 bulbs in. They are completely hardy and will easily withstand UK winters. Plant them about 5cm (2) deep, and around 10cm (4) apart. Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit for its all-round performance in UK gardens. Nerines really are outstanding Autumn 'good doers', and every garden should have some for one last swansong of flower colour before the frosts.
Recent Lily breeding has created some huge and beautifully fragrant Oriental type Lilies, in their pinks and whites, their brighter, bolder and brighter Asiatic cousins seem to have been left out. Not any more following their breeding with the ever-popualr Longilforum scented lilies, to create Longiflorum Asiatic (LA) hybrids. With their beautiful sunshine rays of colours in a range of bold 'fruit-salad shades' in yellow, berry pink, orange and red, these vibrant and hot tropical colours really light up your hot summer garden, and they even inherit some of the fragrance of their parents too. Short and strong enough to grow in pots, yet tall enough to cut armfuls of flowers each summer, they are versatile, and very hardy and easy. Plant en masse in large pots or in groups for maximum impact, or maybe just dot them round your garden to brighten up odd spots. Plant in spring, and pick in summer - and again year after year. Great value and easy to do Lilies.
'Cantor' is a highly sought-after and simply beautiful Calla lily variety, producing stunning, near black flowers each summer. Newly formed blooms are black to begin with, then unfurl slowly to reveal deep, maroon-purple trumpets. A real showstopper! Grow singly in pots about 10-15cm diameter, or all 3 in a 20cm diameter pot. For best results, they should be kept very warm and well watered once planted for 2 weeks to kick-start them out of dormancy - on a heater or an airing cupboard is fine, then once the green shoots appear, they can be placed outside. The corms are shallow, and need to be planted saucer shape up, just with a shallow 1-2cm covering of compost only. You will be rewarded with tremendous displays of sumptuous calla flowers that last for 5-6 weeks, and appear again year after year. Supplied as 3 bulbsready for planting.
The perfumed, two-tone blooms of Tree Lily 'Debby' make an exotic addition to the garden. This Oriental x Trumpet Lily hybrid towers up to 2m (6?, 6) by the second or third year.
Bold dusky pink-red flowers with striking white outer edges adorn the short, compact stems of this lily. Each bulb of Lily 'Flash Point' will produce masses of exotic-looking, strongly fragrant blooms, which also make a wonderful cut flower.
Calla Lily Callafornia Le Chique is perfect for adding a splash of pink to your garden or patio area with its graceful stems of exotic dark pink flowers and white-speckled green foliage. Each bulb can produce 5-15 flowers and will keep on blooming throughout the summer from June to September. Wonderfully fragrant, they will look spectacular planted in your containers or flower beds and will also look gorgeous in cut flower arrangements too.
Indulge your taste for luxury with the dazzling beauty of Calla Lily Callafornia Ice Dancer. Bearing large, creamy-white blooms set against dark green foliage they are perfect are creating standout displays in your patio pots or at the back of your garden borders throughout the summer months. Wonderfully fragrant and lasting a long time in a vase, it's no wonder they have long been a favourite of gardeners and florists.
Calla Lily Callafornia Rio is an outstanding new variety bearing large deep purple blooms with an unmissable strong fragrance. Lasting a long time in the vase, they will look as spectacular in the home as they do in the garden. Because of their extravagant, exotic appearance, Calla Lilies are striking when planted en-masse by themselves and are perfect for creating stunning backdrops behind shorter flowers.