Most lilies are easy to grow but a few are finicky.
Warning
Many true lilies are toxic to cats, including the ‘Stargazer’ and Easter lilies.
Flowers face up, down, or outward, and they usually bloom in June or July.
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you’re able to successfully move the Easter lily to a permanent site outside.
If not forced, Easter lilies produce white trumpet-shaped blooms in July or August.
Choose a sheltered location where the blooms are in the sun but the roots are in the shade.
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Popular cultivars include ‘Nellie White’ and ‘White Heaven’.
Trumpet Lilies
With their large flowers, trumpet lilies are sure eye-catchers in the mid-summer garden.
The flowers have a heavy, sweet fragrance.
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Popular cultivars include ‘African Queen’ and ‘Golden Sunburst’.
Expect fragrant blooms in May or June.
Choose your location wisely, as martagon lilies don’t transplant well.
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‘Fairy Morning’ and ‘Claude Shride’ are popular cultivars.
The first blooms appear in August when many other flowers are winding down for the season.
Because of their taller size, they often require staking to prevent flopping.
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The flowers have a strong, spicy aroma.
Stargazer is considered to be one of the most fragrant flowers.
It blooms in mid-to-late summer.
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It produces up to 10 unscented flowers per stem.
Popular cultivars include ‘Conca d’Or’ and ‘Pretty Woman’.
The tips are curled and each petal has a golden center stripe.
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The blooms in mid- to late summer are highly fragrant.
Especially in hotter climates, a location in partial shade is preferable.
It blooms between May and July.
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Leopard’s lilies form colonies over time without being invasive.
These lilies with trumpet-shaped white blooms in summer are derived from lilies native to the Balkans and Middle East.
They need a sheltered spot, preferably, an eastern exposure with morning sun, andneutral soil pH.
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Madonna lilies prefer slightly dry conditions and will succumb to grey mold in damp locations.
It flowers in late August and September.
Wood Lilies
Known also as prairie lily or Philadelphia lily, this is a smaller lily species.
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It has funnel-shaped, flamboyant red-orange petals with brown mottling near the base.
It blooms in July and August.
The beautiful yet mostly unscented orange to red-orange flowers appear between June and August.
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Henry’s lily is native to China.
It has nodding, unscented, light orange flowers with maroon spots.
The bloom time is in mid- to late summer.
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These tall lilies tend to lean and should be staked.
The trumpet-shaped flowers of this native lily sometimes fade to pink as they age.
The native habitat of this uncommon lily is in dry woodlands in Oregon and California.
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They bloom in early to mid-summer.
Dayliliesare not true lilies but belong to a different species (Hemerocallis).
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