Hints and tips:
...Watch out for lily beetles on the stems from May onwards and squash them between your fingers when you detect them....
...I prefer lilies, but she is not very helpful about most of the best. Sections on her “favourites” conclude the book....
...They too have a little- used everyday name, “corn lily”, and are quick to flower at a height of about a foot....
...Robin Lane Fox travelled as a guest of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...From the 1880s onwards he lavished money on his paradise of a garden at Giverny, site of the lily pond, wisteria bridge and nasturtium avenue which have become globally famous through his paintings....
...To illustrate the point I recommend the lily-flowered tulip Marilyn. Its elongated flowers are indeed white, striped, however, with red like lipstick....
...As his fame spread he was invited to lecture in the US, where he visited woods of wild erythroniums, “trout lilies”, on a journey from coast to coast....
...It is high time to be ordering, buying and planting lilies. Lily bulbs will continue to be in shops in April but the sooner they are planted the better....
...One of the great collectors of eastern plants was Augustine Henry, an Irishman who introduced the wonderful orange-flowered lily, Lilium henryi, from the mountains of central China....
...My year runs from the early blues of scillas, through peonies, multicoloured irises, roses galore, lilies, delphiniums, crocosmias, agapanthus and much else....
...Jane Owen is an FT contributing editor Robin Lane Fox returns on December 16 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTProperty on X or @ft_houseandhome on Instagram...
...Packets of bright-flowered starry sparaxis are excellent value at about £10 a time; pink-flowered nerines, the Guernsey lilies, are essential bulbs, too, for our milder Octobers....
...Twenty years ago, pundits used to say that the pink, white or red-flowered lilies for autumn, then called schizostylis, now called hesperantha, needed to be planted in damp soil....
...Among the Maya, the Water Lily Serpent links the aquatic realm to the sacred underworld. There is good reason for the prominence of such entities across time and around the world....
...Characters] was written by my grandmother Paula Fox....
...In an American state funeral, I would expect wreaths of formal flowers such as lilies, and in a French one, a white or peachy garland of florists’ roses entwined in a chic style....
...the Bible, the valley that the prophet Isaiah holds up as a future “pasture for flocks”, while the author of that anonymous love-song, now known as the Song of Songs, declares, “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily...
...I have hardly started, let alone on the daphnes, saxifrages, ice-blue ramondas and all the lilies, seed-raised Lilium mackliniae to the fore....
...For late summer and autumn we all love agapanthus and nerine lilies....
...What about lilies? Of course you want some, and I use HW Hyde & Son in West Sussex (hwhyde.co.uk) as a main supplier....
...In their place my autumn winners were the fine Guernsey lilies, or nerines, easy bulbs for anyone to order in spring and to plant with the bulbs’ tips still showing in a bed beneath a warm wall....
...I do not much like double-flowered tulips, but lily-flowered ones with tall stems are lovely, including that old favourite, yellow West Point....
...An aunt embroidered his bed curtains and bedspread with some of the garden flowers he loved, dianthuses, martagon lilies and so forth. He slept, therefore, in a personal flower bed, an inspiring idea....
...Make a note to buy more dahlias next spring and also to order bulbs of pink nerine lilies. They should be planted in April, buried only as far as their necks in a dry sunny border....
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