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With stunning star-shaped flowers, lilies add elegance and fragrance to any garden. Enjoy their colorful blooms from spring through the first frost by blending early-blooming, mid-season, and late-blooming lilies into your garden. Learn more about choosing, planting, and growing lilies.
Learn how to grow and care for lilies in your own garden. Get tips for planting, popular lily types and more. Lily flowers will bring drama and romance to your garden all summer long.
We’ve pulled together a list of 40 different types of lilies with photos, including favorites like Calla lilies and different colored lilies including white ones, purple, orange and more. You’ll even learn about seasonal lilies like the Easter Lily and super fragrant ones like Asiatics.
7. The Canada lily (L. canadense) A northern native, this is one of the only lilies that doesn’t mind boggy conditions. Hardy in zones 3 to 8 it grows 4 to 7 feet tall and has yellow nodding flowers. Bees and butterflies are drawn to them, and this lily is mainly pollinated by the ruby-throated hummingbird.
The elegant, fragrant flowers of true lilies are perennially popular as a pollinator-friendly border and cut floral arrangement addition. Lily plant care varies depending on the species within the genus. However, most types require a sunny, well-drained spot and cool bulb roots.
Lilies have thin, strap-like foliage and tall, slender stems. The bare stems look a bit awkward in the garden. Plant lilies with mounding plants to cover this liability. Try wild geranium, wild ginger, lamium or hostas. Planting and Caring for Lilies. Plant lilies from early spring through fall.
True lilies are perennial plants growing from bulbs with a characteristic scale structure and notably large flowers, many highly fragrant, blooming in spring or summer. The world of lilies can be a bit overwhelming with more than 80 species in the lily genus and countless hybrids.