Tiny Padhye Lily

Group/Class: Dwarf Asiatic

Description:

These compact variety produces deep plum blooms with stunning white petal tips; perfect for garden containers, massing or border plantings; they tend to have more blooms per stem than most lilys which will definitely make an impact in the garden

Ornamental Features:

Tiny Padhye Lily features bold plum purple trumpet-shaped flowers with white tips at the ends of the stems in early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's narrow leaves remain green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Tiny Padhye Lily is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This perennial will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Disease
• Insects

Tiny Padhye Lily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Tiny Padhye Lily will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity extending to 22 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 12 inches. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by multiplication of the underground bulbs.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.