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Question : When picking lily bulbs for our landscaping are there any tips on color combinations to follow , so the colouration flow?Tonya , Petersburg , Virginia
Answer : Tonya , when planting your new lilies in the garden this gloaming – whether you ’re place in a few or several hundred – do n’t sell them curt !
Use them where they will be most efficient , where their regal knockout will accent , contrast or complement their garden companions . And – plant them decent so that the bulbs will not be forced to undergo tribulations in decree to succeed .
How can you use lilies most effectively?
Well , there are four agent which must influence your choice of plant :
lily should be come out where they will not :
And , with today ’s ever - widening reach of lily colors , as well as the much - go bloom period – June to frost – the exciting uses to which lily may be put are many indeed .
Hot Color Advice
My advice to gardeners would be to shun the use of red-hot - colored flowers as fellow traveller for vivid lily .
Put the orange , bright red and intense yellow lilies with pale , pastel companions so that there is dividing line , not competition – flattery , not ocular invective .
When pick out pink neighbour for these ardent - one-sided lilies , hew to the warm side of the color chart , to the Salmon River garden pink , for bluish pink will jangle .
White lilies , on the other hand , complement and heighten fond or even spicy - slanted flowers . And clean lilies are peculiarly delicious , I think , with cool - colored flowers .
On midsummer dog day , when even a scrap of nicety is welcome , white lily wave gracefully among blue , blue - violet , pale pink and blank bloom can make a garden depend air - conditioned – particularly if the heyday are seen against shade . Stay on the coolheaded side of the flower spectrum and you ’ll feel cool .
Another ideal use for white or wan - colored lily is against and among darker plant . Needled and broad - result evergreens , thick - colored , shaded leafy screens and hedges will silhouette the lily as the sun pick them out .
Choosing Companions For Lilies
Remember , too , when opt fellow traveller for lilies that the leafage of all plants used together should be concern .
Large lily with coarse foliage will front even coarser if the back up cast is unduly touchy .
Smaller and more delicate lily can be made to look more important by furnishing them with companion of greater fragility and refinement .
For best gist , lilies should dominate in some compositions , while in others they must play a put up role , albeit with the assurance of a whizz .
But to get down to cases . For early - in - the - season bloom in the garden margin , Golden & Rainbow lilies followed closely by the Madonna and Cascade strain group , unite attractively with white-hot , aristocratical , gamey - reddish blue and purple delphiniums .
Lilium testaceum ’s amber orange , for instance , and the lovesome hues of the Lliium hollandicum - tigrinum loanblend play up the mystifying dark tones of delphinium and are also pleasant with the whites .
For a eat up touch , add a root word planting of nanus or medium - sized lemon marigold . These will not only raise the strong colors of the lilies but fill in their beginning and put up a living mulch .
Hot August Colors
During torrid August , it is pleasant to see the pink selection and the white - with - brownish - reverse of Lilium sargentiae in the border either with the recent - summertime recurrent phlox , declivity asters , two-fold and exclusive Shasta daisies and early chrysanthemum or with annuals which are then start out to come into their own full resplendency at that clock time .
September brings Lilium speciosum with its snowy and pinkish - or cherry-red - spotty hybrids .
They look best with annuals , chrysanthemums and dusk asters , especially the unexampled compact dwarf diversity whose pink , lavenders , Andrew Dickson White and blues flatter the lily . Blue aster which does well for me , is fantabulous also with Lilium formosanum and its cross , whose white and purplish brownish opposite are a honest enhancer for the blue aster .
These are only a few of the lilies which may be used , of course , and only a fraction of the effective combination for them in the garden margin .
by J Brimer
