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Lilium - The Species Lilies
 

We offer a wide selection of species lilies as well as a few other varieties. Our primary goal is to offer the harder to obtain species from around the world.

 

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Lilium- The Wild Lilies

Lilium  bakerianum delavayanum......................... $20.00ea
Ht. 60cm. Z7.  This lovely lily has dark golden, creamed coffee petals suffused with spots of purple on the interior, outside stained with darker mahogany.

Lilium brownii........................................................ $12.00ea
Ht. 90-100cm. Z6. Fragrant, white trumpet shaped flowers with dusky pink on the outside of the petals and a yellow throat.  

Lilium candidum Madonna Lily............................. $12.00ea
Ht.1-2M. Z6.   This is a stunning lily with many pristine fragrant white flowers on each stem.

Lilium davidii......................................................... $12.00ea
Ht. 1-1.4M. Z5. A wonderful orange red lily with deep burgundy spots at the base of the petals. The anthers and the end of the pistol are also marked with this deep eye-popping burgundy-brown.  Young flowering sized bulbs grown from wild collected seed from China.

Lilium canadense coccineum................................. $10.00ea
Z4-5. Ht.100-150cm.   Up to 20 bell shaped pendulous flowers adorn this eastern North American Native.  Flowers are red with darker spotting and a yellow throat.  A plant for the edge of a woodland where it will quickly form a tight clump.  We are selling small bulbs, one year away from blooming.

Lilium columbianum Columbian Lily ..  10cm. pot $12.99ea
Native.  Ht. 1-1.5m.  Z7.  Our native Tiger Lily, with nodding golden yellow lily-like flowers often with maroon spots.  Sun to semi-shade in humus-rich soil.

Lilium duchartrei....................................................... $10.00
Ht.45cm-1.5M. Z4-5.  The Marble Turk's Cap Lily is a native of western China. Nodding white flowers with wine red speckles. This fragrant, rarely offered lily is quick to multiply and is often stoloniferous.  Blooms in July.  Naturally small in size, we offer young bulbs that should bloom in one year.

Lilium formosanum var. formosanum............ Fall   $6.00ea
Ht. 30cm. Z5.  A very fast growing lily with large trumpet shaped beautifully fragrant flowers with recurved petal tips and a purple stripe on each petal. It blooms in summer or early fall and is very easy to grow. The lovely fragrance of this lily pervades the nursery on warm summer nights.  Available Fall 2012.

Lilium grayi............................................................ $10.00ea
Ht.1.5m. Z4.  The bell shaped flowers of this striking lily are crimson red on the exterior, darkening towards the base. The interior is light red with dark purple spotting and has a yellow base. This native of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee likes sun to partial shade in humus rich soil where it will quickly form a sizeable clump. We are selling small bulbs which are one year away from blooming.

Lilium hansonii...................................................... $10.00ea
Ht.to 1.2m. Z5.  This is a lovely fragrant Turk's Cap type lily from Korea with deep orange-yellow flowers spotted with purple-brown towards the base.

Lilium lancifolium  flore-pleno. ............................... $8.00ea
Ht.1.5m. Z2. We offer nice bulbs of this striking lily with double orange flowers with brown spots. These should bloom in a year or so. In cultivation since the 17th century.

Lilium lankongense............................................... $20.00ea
Ht.40-150cm. Z5. A lilium wardii type with intensely fragrant lovely deep pink recurved blooms with rose violet spots.

Lilium maculatum ssp.davuricum f.rebunense ....... $20.00ea
Ht.12-15cm. Z4. From Rebun Island in Japan comes this showy Lily.  Grows only 12-15cm with large upfacing vivid orange flowers nicely marked with dark spots. Awesome dwarf liy.

Lilium maritimum................................................. $15.00ea
Ht.20-40cm. Z?. An attractive small lily with reddish orange flowers. The tips of the sepals and petals are recurved very strongly  giving the flowers a unique appearance.

Lilium martagon Turk's Cap Lily......................... $10.00ea.
Ht. 40-100cm.  Z4. Up to 50 flowers purplish-pink, densely spotted purple.

Lilium martagon album Turk's Cap Lily.............. $15.00ea.
Ht. 40-100cm.  Z4. Up to 50 white flowers per stem.

Lilium martagon `Early Bird '................................ $10.00ea
Ht. 40-100cm. Z4. This selection has magenta flowers with a tad of ochre yellow showing through and a few red spots.  It seems to bloom earlier than the species and stays in bloom much longer.

Lilium martagon `Flore pleno'................................. $7.50ea
Ht.1-2M. Z6. These are small young bulbs of this rarely offered form of the species.  The thickly textured pink flowers are fully double.  These will take a few more years of growing to bloom.

Lilium maximowiczii.............................................. $16.00ea
Ht.1-1.5m.  Z5.  A Turks cap type lily with orange flowers spotted with brownish purple.

Lilium michiganense   Michigan Lily ....................  $10.00ea
N.A.Native. Ht.1-2m. Z3. A wonderfully recurved red-orange lily with a lighter yellow base delightfully spotted and speckled with darker reddish brown.

Lilium monadelphum............................................. $20.00ea
Ht.1-1.5m.  Z3. A large lily with large fragrant soft yellow flowers often with red spotting inside.  Awesome. Fall only.

Lilium nepalense.................................................... $12.99ea
Ht.100-125cm.  Z4. Very large slightly nodding funnel-shaped flowers.  Color incredible for a lily, yellowish green with a very large inner dark red-purple throat. Another Nepal native.

Lilium pardalinum Leopard Lily............................ $12.00ea
N.A. Native. Ht.2-3m. Z5. Orange red to crimson  Turk's cap type flowers spotted maroon.

Lilium philadelphicum........................................... $15.00ea
N.A. Native. Ht.1.25m. Z2-3. Upfacing orange-red flowers with a yellow spotted throat.

Lilium pumilum....................................................... $6.00ea
Ht. 60-75cm. Z5.  Up to 20 brilliant red flowers with a few black spots.  Native of Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia and China.  Likes sun and good drainage.

Lilium superbum ..................................................... $7.50ea
N.A.Native Ht.1.2-1.8M. Z3. Turks Cap type lily with vibrant orange heavily spotted  flowers with crimson tips.

Lilium wardii (L.duchartrei var. wardii)................. $12.50ea
Z5. A wonderful fragrant lily with fully recurved rose to deep pink flowers spotted with purple along the midrib and edges.   Named in honour of its discoverer,  Kingdom Ward.   Naturally small bloom sized bulbs. Quickly forms a nice colony. Fall only.

Lilium washingtonianum var. purpurascens 10cmpot$10.00ea
Native. Ht.150-250cm.  Z4.  Up to 20 bowl shaped fragrant flowers opening white then becoming pink then purple.   We offer 4 year old naturally small bulbs that will bloom in a year.

 

 

 

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