Lilium ‘Silk Road’

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Lilium ‘Silk Road’ is an Orienpet Lily with huge, 8″ flowers, intoxicatingly fragrant and borne on spires up to 2′ across for longer than you thought possible. Winner of the North American Lily Society’s popularity poll for 4 straight years.

Stunningly beautiful Orienpet Lilies are hybrids between Oriental and Trumpet Lilies. We will continue to offer more varieties as they become available from Holland and the West Coast. Orienpets combine the best features of both groups of Lilies—fragrance, large flowers, and sturdy garden performance—but bloom about 2 weeks earlier than most Orientals. The advantage is an almost continuous sequence of Lily blooms, if you start with Asiatic varieties, then follow with Trumpets, Orienpets, and Orientals.

Lilies are one of the truly great garden plants. Their beauty, diversity, extended season of bloom, exquisite fragrance, graceful stature, and reliable disposition reflect the fruits of hundreds of years of selective breeding. Your garden should not be without them, whether you manage acres of mixed borders or a few pots on a city balcony.

Lilies prefer cool soil, which argues for shade at their feet from low-growing companions such as Ferns, Geraniums, or Hellebores. Plant Lilies in well-drained soil where they will receive 6–8 hours of sun a day. When cutting the flowers for bouquets, remove no more than ⅓ of the stem. This provides sufficient leaves on the remaining stem to renew the bulb for the coming year.

For more information on the growing and care of Lilium, click on Growing Guide.