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Growing Easter Lilies
We often see these white, trumpet-like flowers adorning churches Easter Holiday, but Easter Lilies are actually fantastic plants to add to your garden. Here's how....
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Lilium canadense
Lilium canadense has exquisitely beautiful flowers - pendent bells with slightly recurving petal tips in whorled candelabra heads.
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Lilium japonicum
This exquisitely scented Lilium of fable, with its shell pink blooms, is perhaps the one species Lilium to grow, even if you don't grow any Liliums to date; reward yourself with this delightful creature.
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Lilium Pumilum a delight to grow.
Lilium Pumilum has a certain luminescence to the petals, which when touched by the rays of the sun,light up the countenance of this dainty lilium, filling the world for a brief moment with total joy of presence. We are so easy to grow from seed.
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Luscious Lilies
The history, folklore, and uses of the lily.
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Back to the Elegant Lilium
The Lilium is one of the most loved and grown plants in the world. It is also one of my favourites.
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Growing Lilium 1
The Lilium is one of the most popular and easiest bulbs to grow. Growing techniques are highlighted and discussed in this article.
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Growing Lilium 2
We continue with some of the techniques that will help you grow the wonderful Lilium species.
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Lilium hybrids
There are many beautiful species Lilium, but often they are hard to find and also hard to grow. But the hybrids that you see everyday are also beautiful - and so easy create your own. Here is a small collection of those I have photographed.
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Species Lilium Time
The ease of growing Species Liliums. Planning ahead for garden Joy.
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Columbine and Wood Lily: Two Wildflower Beauties
Consider this a tribute to two of the most beautiful wildflowers in the Colorado Rockies. They are so lovely, they must be protected by law, and by the help of everyone who enjoys them.
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Growing Lilies from Seed
The wonderful Lilium is commencing to flower now here in our spring weather. Seed is a practical and inexpensive way to propagate them. Why not have a go!
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Scaling and Twin Scaling of bulbs
Try a different method of multiplying your bulb stock. It's fun, it's challenging, it's rewarding and it works. Scaling and Twin Scaling for the adventurous!
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Fragrant Bulbs or Bulb-Like Plants
Fragrant plants add a touch of charm and surprise to a garden and none more so than the pleasant surprise of hidden bulbs suddenly bursting forth with scent and color.
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Memorial Day Themed Garden Plants
Creating a special garden in honor and memory of a loved one, wedding anniversary, child's birth or other special event is easy by selecting one of memorable plants.
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What Is An Orange Tiger Lily
The common orange tiger lily, sometimes called ditch lily, has a graceful appearance. This tough plant should be a consideration for tough garden spots.
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Lilies, do you want more ?
Lilies multiply very easily producing large clumps. If you have never wondered what the small white or pink pea-sized lumps were that you found in the soil after cutting back the brown stems in late fall, you may have come acros miniature lily bulbs... learn how to encourage, harvest and grow FREE lilies. In the process we will also explain how to tell real lilies from other plants borrowing their name, and illustrate the differences between Oriental lilies and Asiatic lilies. Finally we will go through the preferred propagation methods for each of them. Do you have enough free lilies ?
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Birth Flower for May
The language, legends and history for the lily of the valley; the flower for those born in the month of May.
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Eight Easy Perennials
Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.
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Halloween Themed Garden Plants
Spooks, magic, ghouls, and black cats. October's All Hallow's Eve can be fun to celebrate in the garden with these Halloween named plants.
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Lilies Poisonous to Cats
Easter lilies, tiger lilies, rubrum or Japanese showy lilies, and some day lilies are toxic to cats causing acute kidney failure.
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A Few Western Lilies
Last week I wrote about some lilies I found in Mississippi. This week I'd like to touch on a few western species I've found.
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Garden Pests: Slugs and Snails
Slugs and Snails can be extremely bothersome pests in many gardens. There they will chew holes in foliage and flowers, and in worst case completely defoliate plants in no time. Good control involves learning about their habits and hiding places, and introducing a suitable control program which consist of several simultanous approaches. In this article, we will look at bait and trap options available, and don't miss the photo's, too.
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Prairies in Reverse
There are prairies here, in the Pacific Northwest. Imagine that. But these prairies are different from their east-of-the-Rockies counterparts. These prairies bloom in the spring, not during mid- and late-summer.
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Scaling Lily Bulbs
Multiply your stock of lilies ... free !!! Lilies can be propagated by scaling without damaging the mother bulb. Scaling is very easy and fun. Next time you buy a lily, try removing a few scales and reproduce 20-30 more lilies in as little as 2-3 years.
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Some Mississippi Lilies
Like all the other families of wildflowers, those of the Lily Family (<I>Lilaceae</I>) can be easy to overlook, or not recognize, or simply marvel at. I've seen a bunch of them in many different places, including Mississippi, a place I didn't enjoy much.
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Lewis and Clark: a couple of High Plains Drifters
Lewis and Clark and their fellow explorers rode out the winter of 1804/05 in the High Plains, at Fort Mandan, in what we now know as South Dakota. During the autumn prior to, and the spring and early summer following that winter they encountered many new plant species.
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