Renoir Lily

Group/Class: Asiatic Hybrid

Description:

Renoir - as lovely as a fine painting by its namesake; glorious soft pink blooms with deeper pink veins make a spectacular display in early summer; upward facing blooms are very romantic for cut flowers and for perennial borders

Ornamental Features:

Renoir Lily features bold hot pink trumpet-shaped flowers with white streaks at the ends of the stems in early summer, which emerge from distinctive rose flower buds. 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:

Renoir 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

Renoir Lily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Renoir Lily will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 32 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 14 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.