The name “lily” derives from the Greek “leirion,” while the scientific name “Lilium” stems from the Latin word for the flower. Over the centuries, selective breeding has resulted in the diverse array of lily cultivars we enjoy today, each with its own unique color, fragrance, and symbolic meaning. Lilies in popular culture and gardens
The Shreveport Times: Learn why this Spring the beautiful Lily flower gets the spotlight
A few years ago, my daughter procured a bunch of Stargazer lilies at a flower shop. The scintillating beauty of these flowers is appropriately complemented by their exceptional fragrance. Gosh, I ...
Did your sweetheart give you flowers for Valentine's Day? Did you know that flowers had a meaning behind them? In the Victorian era flowers had certain meanings because people would use more symbols ...
Many lily varieties produce such heavy blooms that the flowers look downward, their stems unable to handle the weight. But in the late 1970s, a flower breeder named Leslie Woodriff created a stunning ...
Learn about 40 different types of lilies and see beautiful pictures of them, too. From Asiatic and Oriental to Easter Lily flowers and more.
With colorful, star-shaped flowers, lilies add elegance and fragrance to any garden. By carefully blending early, midseason, and late varieties of lily into your garden, you will enjoy their magnificent blooms from spring through first frost. Learn more.
Lily, genus of 80 to 100 species of herbaceous flowering plants of the family Liliaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Many are prized ornamental plants and have been extensively hybridized. The name is also used for a number of unrelated plants.