Tiny Poems Lily


Description

Height: 18 inches

Spread: 12 inches

Hardiness Zone: 4

Group/Class: Dwarf Asiatic

Description:

These compact variety produces black centered blooms with dazzling pink 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 Poems Lily features bold black trumpet-shaped flowers with hot pink 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 Poems 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 Poems Lily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

  • General Garden Use
  • Mass Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Tiny Poems Lily will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity, 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.


Details

Date Added 2016-12-02
Product Id 10359497