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Article: Lilies we love: who can resist these queens of the summer border?
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- Country Living Gardener
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Asiatic lilies
Strong yellows, clear pinks, creamy whites, or soft pastels: Whatever your garden's palette, there's an Asiatic hybrid lily to take your breath away, Upward-facing flowers--as many as eight per stem--bloom in early summer, before their Oriental cousins (see next page). Like all bulb flowers, Asiatic lilies look best when planted in groups of at least three of the same cultivar. Hundreds of hybrids, all with narrow, ovate leaves, are derived from species imported from Asia in the 19th century. The three- to four-foot-tall perennials work well at mid-border, just in front of taller Oriental hybrids. All lilies make wonderful ported plants; move them ...
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Article: Lilies Almost Heaven
Southern Living;
June 1, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... beauty is the best known of the Oriental hybrids. With remarkably fragrant ... Blanca, Kyoto, and La Reve. Oriental hybrids grow well in the Upper, Middle ... Early flowering and hardy, the Asiatic hybrids offer the greatest variation ...
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