Gardening; Lily flowers

Lilies are the traditional expression of purity and faith. They occur in many colorful varieties. We bring you their remarkable delicacy in flower pens of unequalled beauty and excellence.

Many different kinds of lilies are commonly grown in the gardens. Lilies are best suited for growing in flower and shrubbery borders and in pots.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Lilium

Lilium, the genus, is the Latin form of the Greek word 'Lerion' for the Madonna Lily. Red lily was first described by the famous Swedish botanist Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) in 1753.

Facts about Lilies

a. Lilies are one of the most beautiful, and graceful of all summer-blooming flowers.
b. Lilies belong to the Lilium genus consisting of less than 100 known species, occurring in all parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
c. Lilies are believed to have been under cultivation longer than any other ornamental flower, having existed in gardens 3,000 years ago. Floral designs, particularly of Lilies, made their appearance and became very popular in the 18th dynasty of Egypt.

What are True Lilies?

There are many kinds of flowers, which have been called "Lilies", but many of these so-called Lilies such as the day-lily, water-lily, and arum-lily, actually belong to other groups of flowering plants. Plants in the Liliales grow from Bulbs, or Corms, both of which will store food over the winter or during the dry season. Unlike other Liliales, these vines produce their flowers in spherical clusters called Umbels, as in Bomarea. True Lilies are composed of fleshy scales without a protective outer coating. True Lilies are never dormant.

Lily's flowers are the highlight of the gardening season, beautiful big flowers, elegant. Just imagine your lily home garden, it has to be special and full of color. The gardeners from all over the world just love lilies, because they dress the garden for gala and don't need so much care.

The Oriental scented lilies, as the Madonna Lily (Lilium candidum), and the Turkish Lily (Lilium matagon prefers shady places and limestone soil) are a little pretentious when it's about growing conditions. But, for example, Black Beauty Lily is one of the most proper lily species for garden growing.

Many of lily species agree to the habitual garden soil, but it has to be well loosened and also well-drained. Don't forget about the additional food, meaning fertilizer manure or liquid purchased fertilizer, and mulching. Also lily doesn't bear the fog.

If you keep in mind the flowering period, you can combine lilies with other species of flowering plants, as the Aster (Aster amellus) or May night sage (Salvia nemorosa). Lily loves to be accompanied by the flowers symphony.

The Asiatic lily hybrids are in flower since June or July and Oriental Lilies flower in summer, since August till September. Also lily feels well in a permanently moisture. Therefore plant flowers around lilies to withhold the weeds to grow and to maintain the soil humidity. Such of these are the following flowering plants: Gypsophila repens, Dead Nettle (Lamium maculatum), Creeping thyme (Thymus praecox), Dalmation bellflower (Campanula portenschlagiana) etc. The Regal lily's white flowers are so well market out by dark green of the Cherry Laurel (Prunus laurocerasus).

The optimum plantation period for lily bulbs is in spring or autumn. The majority lilies have to be planted in early spring, just after you purchase them, in a well-drained soil. We have to point out here that the deepness of plantation is about thrice of lily bulb height. As an exception, the Madonna lily has to be planted almost on the surface, in August. During winter, we mean frosty winter, you have to protect the lilies roots, mulching them with a generous coating of leaves and pine needles.

Propagation lilies

The most easy propagation method is the natural division of the lily bulbs, after they were taken out the soil. After 15-20 days of keeping the divided bulbs in cold, they can be planted again in the garden.