White Oriental Lily

Ethereal white blooms on stately plants with incredible large blooms, the gossamer White Oriental Lily (Lilium spp ‘White Cultivar’) sports lavish white flowers, each bloom is part of a floral cluster that rises tall and branches into several blooms. Each with 6 petals that are slightly backward curling to look like a wide-open landing pad for pollinators!

With a coronet of stamen and pistil, these wide star-shaped flowers really show off! Once the summer sun kicks in, these flowers go all out when it comes to blooms, fragrance and size! Their open faces gleam in the sun and show off that incredible color from all sides.

Taller growing, lovely blooms open a bit later in the summer than Asiatic Lilies, extending your season of blooms! Attracting bees, butterflies and beneficial pollinators, and even a hummingbird or two, these fragrant wonders perfume the garden!

The buds open from bottom to top creating a long bloom period as each opens in succession. Sometimes you’ll have an entire stem in full bloom for a truly glorious sight! Growing tall on very sturdy stems, lined with rows of strappy dark-green foliage. These perennial bulbs form clumps, slowly multiplying to provide you with more and more flowers each year!

Oriental Lilies are glorious cut flowers, so you’ll be able to enjoy their fragrance indoors as well! These are tall, impressive perennial bulbs, perfect for tucking anywhere in the landscape! Fantastic in the cutting garden as they are in a cottage border, you’ll inject a burst of luminous color into your garden!

How to Use White Oriental Lily In The Landscape

Tall blooms suspend these gorgeous blooms 1-3 feet in the air but they have a slim profile. Easily fitting perfectly into gardens of all sizes! You’ll easily add fanciful flowers and fragrances to your planters and containers by including Lilies as thrillers and focal points.

Plant around your patio and in your Pollinator gardens so you’ll enjoy winged visitors around your seating areas. These fantastic flowers light up Perennial beds and are ideal border plants! Cottage and Cutting gardens gain a brilliant beacon of white stars!

Group these along your home’s sunny foundation, or enliven the front of a tired shed or rock wall. Long rows of Lilies add dramatic spotlights of color! By grouping and planting en masse, you’ll easily achieve maximum visual display and eye-catching impact! Slowly spreading and clump-forming, you’ll enjoy more and more blooms each year!

Incredible focal points in floral arrangements, the sprays of large flowers really take the spotlight. Striking focal points, the White Oriental Lily has a stylish impact! We’re sure you’ll walk in the room and your nose will tell you they’re there before you set eyes on them! Filling the room with that sweet, heady fragrance that only an Oriental Lily emits is one you’ll never forget!

The outstanding greenery is the perfect backdrop for these flowers and other plants in the garden! From before the flowers arrive and long after the blooms have faded!

Create a vivid berm or island in your front or side garden with other pastels, royal blue and purple flowers, or use these lovely flowers in a Moon Garden or Night Blooming flower garden!

For a focal point planting, cluster these in a grouping of 3 or more for a stand-out accent! Seating areas, birdbaths, outdoor sculptures and urns become main garden features with a ring of these around their base!

Northern gardeners and those in cold climates can treat these as annuals, or dig them up in the fall. Plant into containers that are set into the ground and simply pull up the whole pot! Keep them moderately watered and store them in a cool dark location each winter such as a garage or shed! You can even move these specimen plants into a greenhouse for the cold winter months.

#ProPlantTips For Care

Lily bulbs grow in the full sun, preferring morning sun and requiring a touch of afternoon part shade in the hotter of the USDA growing zones 7 through 11. Allow at least 6 hours of direct sunlight a day for optimum results.

Plant Lilies in well-drained but moist soil with average fertility. Not particular on soil type, any well-drained medium that has a good amount of humus and organic material added will help hold the moisture that these bulbs enjoy.

Water well while plants are young and in the heat of summer to have the best blooms and the longest bloom time. Once established, they will only need supplemental watering throughout the summer’s heat and in times of prolonged drought.

Apply a deep layer of mulch over the soil’s surface to ensure moisture consistency and to also insulate the root system from both heat and cold.

If you live in cooler climates of zones 3 through 6, you can still enjoy these outstanding flowers! Simply treat Oriental Lilies as you would Dahlias or Canna Bulbs and dig them up in the fall and store them in a garage or shed for the winter.

Deadhead as soon as the flowers have faded, but keep your foliage until after frost to make food for the bulb, then cut back in autumn. Otherwise, these are a carefree and easy-to-grow species of Lily!

The White Oriental Lily easily brings delightful brilliance and fragrance to your world! You’ll want to order several of these lovely blooms for all your gardening and indoor bouquet needs! So order today at NatureHills.com before they’re gone!

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