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I adore Asiatic lilies. They come in so many gorgeous colors and they are very low maintenance. Because they grow on single stems, they are easy to tuck into flowerbeds for an extra color boost.
Plant the bulbs 4-6 inches deep in well-drained soil in the fall or you can plant them in early spring as soon as the soil can be worked. I often see them listed as a full sun plant, but I grow most of mine in partial shade and they always perform beautifully (although taller varieties may need to be staked). Chipmunks will sometimes eat the bulbs, but other than that Asiatic lilies have few disease or insect problems.
The hardest part is picking out which ones to grow because they are all so beautiful. I’m partial to lilies with freckles:
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Geez those lilies are beautiful. I hate to admit I had kinda written them off as another one of those “too common” plants that I didn’t want to grow, but your pictures above are BEAUTIFUL! What cultivars did you use for that first picture? P.S. I just found your blog, like I said in my balloonflower comment, you might be getting a lot of picture comments because you take such wonderful pictures!
Sam
The purplish lilies in the back are ‘Black Jack.’ The orangish-red ones in front of them are called ‘Stones.’ The pure orange ones are ‘Avignon.’ The orangy-yellow ones in the bottom right corner of the photo are ‘Oklahoma City’ and I think the white one on the bottom left of the photo is ‘Jubileo.’
I got all of them mail order from John Scheepers:
(http://www.johnscheepers.com/index.html) but that was several years ago. I don’t see them offering any of those cultivars in this year’s catalog, but they have other nice ones.Their bulbs are always excellent.
Thanks for the nice comments!
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