Celebrated for its intense and delicious fragrance, the Madonna Lily bears glistening, sizeable, pure white trumpets facing outward, and flushed yellow at the base, with bright yellow pollen. It is often seen in religious paintings as it was depicted for centuries as the symbol of Mary and the Catholic Church, being a symbol of purity and virtue. Long-lived and easy to grow it is a valuable addition to every garden. ... Learn More

A bed of these makes quite an unbelievable sight. Fragrant, chocolate-striped, three inch ivory trumpets open on very, very short stems, the long flower buds often opening as they bend to touch the ground. This unforgettable rockery plant can easily flower the first year from an early sowing. ... Learn More

In late summer numerous bright golden orange 'turkscap' flowers with strongly reflexed petals open on very tall stems. This very fine vigorous Chinese lily, which likes a position in dappled shade, is virtually indestructible, and with just a little support, will form tall, fabulous clumps. R.H.S. 'AGM' Award Winner. ... Learn More

From China comes this strong-growing plant that makes strong stems with large, powerfully fragrant, greenish-yellow-throated, white flared bells. It is very hardy and will make a large clump over the years. ... Learn More

Each stem of this rare and outstandingly beautiful small lily carries ivory coloured open bowls, which hang slightly downwards and are sometimes very pale pink inside, and flushed reddish purple outside. Quite a newly-discovered flower, it was originally collected by Frank Kingdon Ward in 1946 from the mountains of northern India, near the border with Burma, when it was originally thought to be a nomocharis, and he named it after his second wife, Jean Macklin. ... Learn More

This strong-growing lily forms a clump of erect stems bearing whorls of narrow leaves and with large racemes of nodding, glossy purplish-pink flowers with recurved petals in early summer, with the occasional odd plant flowering white. Hardy and long-lived it is a valuable addition to any garden. ... Learn More

This unusual and most attractive form was developed at the famous Inshriach Nursery in Scotland, its attractively-brushed rose flowers opening on dark stems in June and July. This flower is easy to cultivate and will even thrive in dry shade. ... Learn More

This is the lovely white form of this excellent plant, bearing pendent flowers with waxy, reflexed petals. It is an exceptionally easy, long-lived plant for the garden, multiplying up over the years. The occasional seedling may produce pink flowers. ... Learn More

This gorgeous lily from eastern Turkey to the Caucasus mountains in Russia, produces narrow hairy leaves in dense spiralled whorls around long strong stems which hold up to twenty or more large, perfumed, nodding yellow flowers, delicately marked inside with purple spots. ... Learn More

This beautiful, nomocharis-like lily from the Himalaya, (indeed some rate it as a nomocharis), has deliciously-scented, pendulous, delicately marked, tulip-like pink flowers flowers, which darken as they age. This plant is the easiest to cultivate of the choice, dwarf, Himalayan lilies, and is good in permanently moist, half-shaded sites, perhaps in a peat garden or amongst shrubs or small trees. Few good seeds collected. ... Learn More

This famous and robust lily forms clumps of erect stems bearing whorled leaves and several nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red flowers that shade to yellow at the centre. Easy to grow, it multiplies up reliably. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. ... Learn More

This is a very robust lily forming a clump of erect stems bearing whorled leaves and several nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red flowers, shading to yellow at the centre. It flowers in summertime and is native to Oregon and California, where it usually grows in damp areas. ... Learn More

This is a strong, tall-growing North American species, producing stems of whorled foliage in a pleasant shade of apple-green. On each stem there are about twenty nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red, flowers which have enormous protruding anthers, and shade to yellow at the centre. ... Learn More

Reflexed, sweetly-perfumed, nodding flowers, brightest red in colour, are sometimes but not always, delicately spotted with black. Named pumilum for its relatively small size, this rare stem-rooting bulb with leaves that are slender and grassy, is native to Mongolia, eastern Siberia, Korea and northern China. ... Learn More

Heavy heads of glorious, bright, vivid yellow flowers, with, exotic, rather musty perfume, and rust-speckled especially in the throat, arise on shortish, stout stems. This excellent garden plant is happy with both lime and acid soils and is bone hardy and long-lived. ... Learn More