Navona Lily


Description

Height: 3 feet

Spread: 18 inches

Hardiness Zone: 2

Group/Class: Asiatic Hybrid

Ornamental Features:

Navona Lily features bold white trumpet-shaped flowers with light green throats and brown anthers 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:

Navona 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

Navona Lily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • General Garden Use
  • Mass Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Navona Lily will grow to be about 30 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. It tends to be leggy, with a typical clearance of 1 feet from the ground, and should be underplanted with lower-growing perennials. 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.


Details

Date Added 2016-11-08
Product Id 10356250