2011 LilyPalooza Lily Selections
Below you will find the selections that were offered with short descriptions and photos to help you identify them in the garden.
Acapulco – Oriental
Bold nodding cherry red trumpet-shaped flowers in late summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. An unusually reliable oriental that also happens to be quite beautiful and fragrant. 3-4 foot tall, blooms in June-July with nodding trumpets, 6 inches wide.
Avocado
Orienpet
Peach flowers
Height: 3-5 feet
Bloom time: July
Flower habit: upfacing
Bonbini
Orienpet
White petals with rosy pink brushstrokes and chartreuse in the throat of the outfacing flower. It is a fragrant lily with sturdy stems. The name means “welcome” in the native language of Aruba.
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom time: late summer
Coastline
Asiatic
This is one of the tangos. The petals are creamy yellow with burgundy stippling in the throats. Sturdy stems. A heavy bloomer. Fragrant.
Height: 2-3 feet
Bloom time:June
Flower habit: upfacing
Dizzy
Oriental
White open-faced flowers with crimson spots and crimson bands down the center of the petals. Fragrant.
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom time: July-August
Flower habit: upfacing
Eyeliner
LA hybrid
Milky white flowers delicately edged in purple-black.Fragrant.
Height: 2-3 feet
Bloom time: June-July
Flower habit: outfacing
Golden Splendour
Trumpet
Large, golden yellow trumpets (6-8” long) with purple brushed on the outside of the flowers. Very fragrant
Height:4-6 feet
Bloom time:July-August
Flower habit: outfacing to nodding
Lady Alice
L. henryi hybrid.
A lovely lady in the garden. Fully recurved, turk’s cap petals are creamy white with a soft orange overlay and lots of darker orange freckles. Hardy and very floriferous. Fragrant.
Height: 4-6 feet
Bloom time: July/Aug
Flower habit: downfacing, recurved, 3-6 inches
Marlon
Oriental
Huge, fragrant, upward-facing, dark rosy magenta and pink blooms edged in white. These wide-opening flowers are borne in succession from mid- to late-summer on sturdy stems. These flowers get 7-8 inches big.
Bloom time: July-August
Height: 2-3 feet
Flower habit: upfacing
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Miss Lily
Oriental
Reddish-maroon petals with white tips.
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom time: midsummer
Pink Perfection
Trumpet
Large, fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers (6-10” long) that range in color from light to deep pink to deep purplish-red. Height: 4-6 feet
Bloom time: June-July
Flower habit: ourfacing
Rosella’s Dream
Asiatic
Soft tones of vanilla and pink blend on each petal with a dusting of speckles
Height: 2-3 feet
Bloom time: June-July
Flower habit: upfacing
‘Scarlet Delight
Orienpet
‘Scarlet Delight’ is a vigorous lily, bearing racemes of large, outward-facing, ruffled, rich red flowers with white edges and tips, black speckles and orange anthers. Sturday stems.
Height: 36-48 inches
Bloom time: July
Flower habit: outfacing
Space Mountain
Orienpet
Reddish-pink (lightens to mauve pink in hot weather) with yellow throat
Height: 4-5 feet
Bloom time: July
Flower habit: outfacing
Sweet Surrender
Lilium tigrinum splendens
Bell-shaped flowers with creamy-white, recurving petals sprinkled with maroon dots.
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom time: July/Aug
Flower habit: downfacing, recurved 3-6 inches
Yelloween
Orienpet
Flowers are bright canary yellow and darker yellow towards the throat. Green filaments with brown anthers. Petals are pointed and have greenish-yellow midribs. Produces 12 to 15 buds on established plants. The fragrance is heavenly.
Bloom time: July-August
Height: 2-3 feet
Flower habit” upfacing
Menorca
LA hybrid
Peachy/coral/apricot colored, early bloomer, sturdy stems. We grow this one. It is a performer.
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom time: Late spring to early summer
Flower habit: outfacing
Rodela
LA hybrid
Huge wine-red flowers that fade to a deep burgundy, with sturdy stems.
Height: 3-4 feet
Bloom time: June
Flower habit: outfacing