Lilies 101: Care, Types and Handling

Garden Home host P. Allen Smith show us how lilies are one of those plants that offer a big return on your investment. Just a little effort in planting the bulbs will reap years of fragrant, colorful blooms. Their bright colors call in butterflies and bees, the lily's primary pollination assistants. Insect helpers jump from flower to flower, carrying pollen from the stamens to the pistils.

Topics Include:
Types of Lilies
Caring for Lilies
Working with Cut Lilies
Pineapple Lilies

Lilium is a large family of plants and some are easier to grow than others. Three common types are Asiatic, Oriental and Trumpet.

Asiatic Hybrids — One of the most carefree summer bulbs that I grow in my garden are Asiatic lilies. They are perfect for cutting gardens and containers. I like to add five to 10 bulbs to my raised vegetable garden so I will have plenty on hand to use as cut flowers later in the summer. Asiatics are early to bloom and easy to grow. They don’t have much fragrance but they make up for it in color.

Oriental Hybrids — Like a Southern grand dame dressed in her Sunday best, Oriental lilies are bright, flamboyant and heavily perfumed! I can’t imagine my garden without these royal beauties. They will perform well in partial shade.

Trumpet and Aurelian Hybrids — The lilies in this group tend to bear striking trumpet-shaped blooms on tall stalks. Many are quite fragrant too. The flowers are so large the plant may require staking.

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"Bloom with Us" is a partnership with First Community Bank and P. Allen Smith to design and install pollinator gardens in an effort to raise awareness of the benefits of pollinators.

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Want more Allen?

[loriregina]

Within reason and season is my favorite saying now.
Lilies are underrated but they are so pretty!!
As always love watching you.

[Juju-twwe]

i cant unsee the fact that you look like the manager in the American series Superstore

[ednawarren]

My sister in law has a farm...I'm trying to convince her to plant lilies...Showing her this!

[evanstephen]

Those oranges against the black and white at 1:37 are just wow

[mariaramirez]

Hello mr. Allen hope you are doing well. Great tips on the care of the lilies my fav color would have to be the orange but love them all. Big Texas hugs from South Texas.

[fannieallen]

All my lilies are beautiful this year. I have some red and white asiatic lilies planted at my mailbox. My husband's friends are bragging about how pretty they are and they don't usually pay any attention to flowers .

[MrsQueen]

Thank you, for this valuable information 🌸

[Mosaic_Crone]

Oh those Pineapple Lilies are FUN.
I need these in my life

[kevini]

Question. What was the yellow/orange lilly variety that was displayed first?

[Neldidellavittoria]

Serendipitous! Just today I was thinking about planting lilies in my garden. Do Asiatic lilies also want a well-drained soil like pineapple lilies?

[MrMusickey]

Quick question, I’ve planted some tree lillies and ideally I would like the blooms and scent to last as long as possible. Would removing the sticky stigma and keeping the pollen anthers work?

[rockmom]

How do you cut the happy returns daylilies? I'm afraid I will do it wrong

[HFKing]

How do you deal with the red bugs that come with them. Mine were great for one year then the battle with the bugs began. They eat the lilies down to the stems:-(

[청취자-gb]

Lilies beautiful! Here is South Korea very good!!! ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 백합(lilies)이쁩니다 여기는 한국입니다 매우 멋지네요! ㅎㅎㅎ smile

[archiemac]

Hi Allen!🙋‍♂️i have a Question. i don't have winter in my country(Philippines) so i need to refrigerate mine. My question is how many weeks and the temperature should i store it in the refrigerator. Thanks

[skowens]

How do I protect my lilies from spider mites? Up until this year, I never had to worry about them. This year, they are destroying the leaves and the stem of my lilies. Also, if my lily appears to be yellowing, do I prune at the stem then?

[justforyouenjoy]

The orange Lily's has a dark orange pieces that gets all over when you though it and it's like a dye - can't get it out - so I wouldn't cut the dark orange ones