auratum
Bright white, slightly recurved petals with russet-red speckles, and gold-yellow rays banding each petal’s centre.
Flowers August
Height to 60” (150cm)
Bulb size 22/24 cm
Plant 6-8” deep in hole with added sand for drainage Requires an acid soil or ericaceous compost
candidum
The tall stem carries heavily scented pure white trumpet flowers with yellow anthers.
It carries its basal rosette of foliage over winter & becomes dormant for only a short period in summer after flowering
Height to 48" (120 cm)
Flowering June/July
Bulb Size 20/+ cm
Plant in a sunny site with lime rich soil, 6-8” deep with added sand for drainage.
Black Beauty
A cross from Lilium speciosum rubrum and Lilium henryi. Lightly scented downward facing black-red tightly recurved turks cap flowers
Flowers July/August
Height to 80" (200 cm)
Bulb Size 20/22
Cardiocrinum giganteum
Cardiocrinum is monocarpic (it dies after flowering), leaving offsets that, in fertile conditions, can grow on to flowering size after a few years
When flowering produces a thick stem that rises to 3m or higher with up to 20 huge white, striped maroon strongly fragrant trumpet flowers
Height to 120" (300 cm)
Flowers July / August
Bulb Size: Flowering size - potted and rooted bulb in plastic film pot for rapid impact
Hardy. Plant bulb with nose level to surface in rich damp high humus soil in semi-shade
henryi
Soft orange spotted black
Flowers June/August
Height to 60” (150cm)
Bulb size 20/+
Requires very good drainage, particularly in winter
Lady Alice
Many white turks cap flowers with an orange spotted centre and green eye per stem. .
Height to 48" (120 cm)
Flowers July/August
Bulb Size 18/20
Plant in full sun, 6-8” deep in hole with added sand for drainage
lancifolium Splendens
syn tigrinum splendens ‘Tiger lily’
Hanging, bright orange-red reflexed flowers with numerous brown to black spots.
Dark-brown bulbils are produced in the axis of the leaves
Flowers August/September
Height to 48” (120 cm)
Bulb size 20/22 cm
leichtlinii
Pendant lemon-yellow recurved flowers spotted brown on dark stems
Flowers: July-September
Height: to 40" (100 cm)
Bulb Size: 20/22
Plant 6-8” deep in hole with added sand for drainage
Lotus ‘Elegance’
Highly scented. Long flowering large flowers with gently ruffled pink and cream petals on strong upright stems. Great for pots.
Flowers July - August
Height to 36” (90cm)
Bulb size 22/24 cm
Requires an acid soil or ericaceous compost
Plant 6-8” deep in hole with added sand for drainage
Mr Pistache
Flowers August
Height to 72" (180 cm) when fed
Bulb Size 20/22
Plant in sun 6-8” deep in humus rich soil with added sand for drainage
nepalense
Large green-white heavily scented trumpet flowers with a dark maroon-purple throat
This species spreads by stolons and can appear upto 50 cm from where planted. In a pot it may appear from the drainage holes
Flowers June/August
Height to 60” (150cm)
Bulb size flowering
Requires very good drainage, particularly in winter
Lilum regale
Large flowers of white, heavily flushed maroon on outside and strongly scented
Height to 72" (180 cm)
Flowers July/August
Bulb Size 22/24
Plant in sun 6-8” deep in humus rich soil with added sand for drainage
Scheherazade
A profusion of lightly fragrant 6-inch-wide flowers in dark raspberry-red with a green-and-yellow throat and cream/white edging
Flowers July/ August
Height to 80" (200 cm) when fed
Bulb Size 22/24
Plant in sun 6-8” deep in humus rich soil with added sand for drainage
speciosum rubrum Uchida
Flowering: August-September
Height: to 48 in (120cm)
Bulb size: 18/20cm