This truly elegant plant opens its nodding, yellow, orange or red spotted flowers in June. It is altogether less robust in appearance than the Martagon lily, with thinner, but nonetheless quite tough stems which do not usually require staking. The Canada lily, unlike many of its N. American kin, is easy to grow as long as it is borne in mind that is a plant of woodland and river edges as well as of humid prairies and prefers a good amount of light. ... Learn More

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

Thick-petalled, scented, yellow-orange flowers, with chestnut-coloured spotting towards the centre, are produced in cartwheel-whorls up the stem, the individual petals being recurved rather than reflexed. This very decorative and attractive species is known from only a very few scattered locations in Korea and China. Very few good seeds collected. ... 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 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 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

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

This beautiful plant produces 6 inch long funnel or trumpet shaped, large, white, yellow-throated flowers, flushed purple outside. They are very strongly fragrant, especially at night. The plant is stem-rooting, leaves being borne at irregular intervals on the stem, and in good conditions plants can grow to 2 meters or more, although 1 to 1.5 meters is more common in the garden. This lily was originally discovered by Ernest Henry Wilson in 1903 in western Szechuan in China. ... Learn More