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27 Pretty Lily Flowers that will Improve Your Garden’s Landscape

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By HomeBNC • Updated on 2024-03-18


By far the most loved aspect of lily flowers is their irresistible delicious perfume smell that emanates from just a single flower. However, apart from their well-known smell characteristics, there are plenty of reasons to like the beloved flowers. These resilient blossoms are a gardener’s delight due to their amazing multicolored spectrum of riotous hues and unique forms and sizes.

27 Types of Lily Flowers to Grow in Your Garden

These thin, powerful plants produce bright, intricate blooms that adorn flower beds, and fill the air with a tasteful smell. Lilies have been growing wild across North America, Europe, and Asia for a long time. As civilization developed, gardeners loved these beautiful flowers and began to plant them. Here are different types of lily flowers you can grow in your garden.

1. Lilium Canadense (Canada Lily)

Lilium Canadense

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: New life and rebirth
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to July

It’s one of just a few cool lilies with a shrubby bulb. Lilium canadense is tiny and graceful in comparison to its huge trumpet relatives. The yellow flower blossoms dangle and have perfectly sharp points that reach out and upwards, and the middle is faintly freckled with orange-brown dots. Branches develop for a few centimeters from the bottom rather than extending from the top of the bulb. New bulbs emerge at the ends of these sprouts, and development begins to move to the ground.

2. Lilium Pardilinum (Leopard Lily)

Lilium Pardilinum

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Enthusiasm and confidence
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium but can tolerate a small amount of drying
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Enjoys partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Summer to early fall

The Leopard Lily is a cool North American genus along the Pacific shores. The pendent flourishes and dangles gladly from the woody stem-like one of those little lamps. The petals are an eye-catching orange-red color that fades to golden yellow in the middle. The popular term for this lovely Lily comes from the dispersion of darker patches on the yellow places. Lilium Pardilinum, as a woodland genus, is one of the few lilies that thrive in partial shade. If maintained to their own devices for some years, the flower flares can grow up to six feet tall and establish natural bunches.

3. Lilium Martagon (Martagon Lily)

Lilium Martagon

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Success, pride, and accomplishment
  • 💧 Water needs: 200ml after every 9 or 10 days
  • 🪴 Soil needs: It’s not picky about soil and can tolerate little lime
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to partial shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early to mid summer

Lilium Martagon is a plant that gardeners love for its potential to go native and create itself over time. Likewise, it’s one of the few lily species that likes light shade, and most of its hybrids have inherited these beneficial features. The original Martagon Lily is soft purple to pink in color, but an albino white version is accessible. The pendent blooms twist back on themselves to touch the base of the flowers. The flowers have freckles, and the foliage is sparse. However, the abundance of flowers more than compensates.

4. Lilium Bulbiferum (Fire Lily)

Lilium Bulbiferum

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Purity and modesty
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist but well-drained soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early summer

The lily flower plant, sometimes called the Fire Lily, was predominantly grown in the highlands of southern Europe. Fire lily has been frequently employed to create many appealing Asiatic mixes. The petals have deeper, chocolate-colored dots on them. This plant is relatively easy to spread because of the many bulbils that grow between the leaf and stem in the axil. Start removing them when they readily peel away and pot them up.

5. Lilium Longiflorum (Easter Lily)

Lilium Longiflorum

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Innocence, rebirth, fresh starts, and faith
  • 💧 Water needs: Slightly moist
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Open free-draining humus-rich loamy soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Late summer

With its whole white funnel blossoms, the exquisite Festive Lily is the flower that inspired the development of fantastic crosses such as White American. If you reside in a warm environment, you may be able to cultivate this lovely Lily outside. Easter Lilies will have to be grown beneath glass in colder climates or sown in pots that can be moved inside for the wintertime.

6. Henry’s Lily (Lilium Henryi)

Henrys Lily

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Love, courage, passion, and fulfillment
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist but well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Enjoys full or partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early to mid-summer

Henry’s Lily will give you lots of beautiful tropical orange blossoms. Each one is embellished with a thick pattern of elevated red bumps, which adds a lovely texture. The blossoms bend backward in a typical Turk’s Cap form, reaching for the stalks, and the robust stems develop at an angle. Henry’s Lily is especially well-suited to plantings casually or naturally.

7. Lilium Lancifolium (Tiger Lily)

Lilium Lancifolium

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Fertility, purity, innocence, and beauty
  • 💧 Water needs: Drought tolerant but enjoys regular watering
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid to late summer

The Tiger Lily started in Asia but has now been indigenous over much of the United States. It’s an available lily species. The peachy orange petals are adorned with black dots and curl backward to meet the stalk’s bottom. The stems are very dark (nearly black) and stand out against the vivid orange blossoms. Tiger Lily is very hardy and will not be affected by a viral infection. This renders them a dangerous species to put near other lilies, so keep them at a safe distance.

8. Lilium Candidum (Madonna Lily)

Lilium Candidum

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Purity of the soul and chastity
  • 💧 Water needs: Evenly moist but not soggy
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Neutral or alkaline soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 6 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Enjoys full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early summer

The iconic white Madonna Lily has one of the most illustrious histories of any lily species. Before the Christian era, people cultivated her pure, white blossoms for both display and nutrition. The blooms feature big, crisp white petals that occasionally give space to light green in the middle. The anthers are a bright yellow.

9. Lilium Auratum (Golden-Rayed Lily)

Lilium Auratum

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Heart holiness and modesty
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained soil and can thrive in nutritionally poor soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 10
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Late summer

The wild Japanese lily flower plant’s broad blooms are a wonder, mostly reaching 10-12 inches in diameter. The aroma is unique, so put them near your home so you can come up close with them regularly. Each delicate white petal has a golden stripe in the center, making a perfect star pattern. Most kinds feature little black dots scattered across each petal, but some have softer pink shades over each petal.

10. Lilium Speciosum (Oriental Lily)

Lilium Speciosum

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Rebirth and pureness
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist but well-drained.
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 7
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early autumn

Oriental Lily is native to Japan. It’s a suitable species to explore if you want lilies to bloom for an extended period since it’s one of the few late-flowering kinds. Blooms occur in the early fall. The pendent blooms are white or tinged pink and scattered widely along with the slender stalks. Raised ‘papillae’ lumps and darker pink dots distinguish each flower. The species despises lime; therefore, if you have saline soils, plant these lilies in pots with ericaceous manure.

11. Lilium ‘Enchantment’ (Enchantment Lily)

Lilium Enchantment

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Signify innocence and simplicity
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Enjoys full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Summer period

The hybrid remains true to its title! Its fiery and brilliant orange flowers are muted by a small sprinkling of darker dots, making it a show-stopping flower. It’s a well-liked variety for a good cause. Enchantment is a simple plant that produces beautiful cut blooms. Additionally, it is simple to expand your flowers for the long term. Bulbils (small bulbs) develop at the tips of every leaf along its stems of non-flowering species.

12. Lilium ‘Connecticut King’

Lilium Connecticut King

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Purity and modesty
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Will tolerate moist but well-drained soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June

Connecticut King, another cut-flower industry favorite, has big golden flowers devoid of stains. The leaf is a striking brilliant green.

13. Lilium Roma

Lilium Roma

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Purity and heaven
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Fairly-draining moist soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early summer

A majestic and gorgeous lily variety that blooms later than most Asiatic. Pink blossoms burst into big creamy flowers with a gentle scattering of dots around the middle.

14. Orange Pixie Lily

Orange Pixie Lily

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Appreciation for a prominent person
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Alkaline, well-drained soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 2 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June to August

Orange Pixie is a real champion. Even though it is just eight inches tall, this species will yield some huge orange flowers that will last many weeks.

15. Denia Pixie Lily

Denia Pixie Lily

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Elitism, privilege, and devotion because they are rare
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist but not soggy
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full to partial sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid summer

Try Denia Pixie if you want anything a bit more delicate. The broad, pink-hued petals are accented with deeper brown flecks, giving these flowers a different character.

16. X Dalhansonii “Marhan”

X Dalhansonii Marhan

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Pureness and modesty
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist, well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 7
  • ☀️ Light needs: Thrives well in partial sun to light shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Early summer

‘Marhan’ has always been a renowned hybrid for over a century. It resembles its parents, Lilium hansonii and Lilium martagon, but with blooms that do not curl as sharply. The hues are soft and seductive, with honey-colored flowers that pop against the dark green stalks.

17. Lilium Bellingham

Lilium Bellingham

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Feelings of pleasure, joy, and good vibes
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Relatively moist, well-drained soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid summer

Bellingham is a robust lily cultivar with towering spiking adorned with lobes of vivid green leaves. They’ll give you stunning, fiery-colored flowers in red, orange, and yellow in the summertime.

18. Lily ‘Cherrywood’

Lily Cherrywood

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Pride, success, appreciation, dignity, and achievement
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist, well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid summer

Cherrywood has graceful dangling blossoms. A deep crimson at the ends of the petal’s transitions to tangerine in the middle of the bloom, with a sprinkling of lovely red specks to complete the picture. Like its progenitor, Lilium pardalinum, Cherrywood has clusters of leaves spread apart along the upright stems.

19. Lilium Longiflorum ‘White American’

Lilium Longiflorum White American

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Purity of love and commitment
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist, well-drained
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to partial shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Summer

Apart from its original plant, the Easter Lily, White American is a hardy plant that grows fast under the right circumstances. The erect stems are covered with dark green, lance-shaped leaves—the trumpet-shaped white summer flowers with green-tinged tips and the typical rust-orange anthers.

20. Lilium ‘African Queen’ (Trumpet Lily)

Lilium African Queen

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Friendship and humor
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained moist soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: All zones
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: July to August

These massive orange blossoms will provide a tropical vibe to your yard. The hue is a vibrant and bright orange with gentle purple-pink highlights on the outer petals. African Queen may grow up to six feet tall, with blooms pointing outwards and downwards. The African Queen group is very tough and will thrive in most climes. Find them a great sunny spot with well-drained soil, and they will thrive.

21. Lilium ‘Golden Splendor’

Lilium Golden Splendor

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Success, dignity, and admiratio
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Good moisture and dry soils must be avoided
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Summer

Golden Splendor lilies have great, giant-sized golden flowers. The buds have a soft purple color that contrasts nicely with the golden blossoms. Golden Beauty stems may grow up to four feet tall, and the blooms are fragrant, as is typical with trumpet varieties. These hybrids are very robust plants, so you can’t worry about them in harsh weather. Except in the coldest temperatures, they should be alright.

22. Lilium Pink Perfection Group

Lilium Pink Perfection Group

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Adoration, appreciation, kindness, femininity
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist but well-drained neutral to acidic soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun or partial shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid to late summer

If you like bold, dark pink, or purple flowers, you’ll like this set of trumpet types. Pink Perfection’s flowers are large, reaching up to 10″ in diameter. The winner lily family is well-known for its exquisite aroma. Grow them in any boundary or bed for a stunning show of color and fragrance that will endure for several weeks. Pink Brilliance lilies thrive in containers and flower gardens, and the bloom makes excellent cut flowers.

23. ‘Bright Star’ Lily

Bright Star Lily

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Life’s passion, sincerity, courage, joy, and fulfillmen
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist, well-drained loamy soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 4 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Late summer and early autumn

The heart of these huge and shining white blossoms is splattered with brilliant orange. The ensuing star-like look lends them their name and their joyful personality. Because ‘Bright Star’ is a mix between the trumpet lily L. centifolium and L. henryi, the form is shallower than the other trumpet kinds. ‘Bright Star’ and related, flatter types of lilies from these combinations are sometimes referred to as ‘sunburst’ lily. Careful examination of your ‘Bright Star’ flowers will show an even lesser light green star created by the nectary furrows, right at the flower’s core, inside the primary golden star. In the 1930s, Jan de Graaf of the renowned Oregon Bulb Farms was responsible for producing this perfect hybrid.

24. Lilium ‘Forza Red’

Lilium Forza Red

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Signifies pride, achievement, appreciation, and elegance
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-drained soil rich in humus
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: June

The Italian term for energy is ‘Forza,’ and the sumptuous, dark crimson flowers of this LA Hybrid live up to its reputation. The whole blossom has the same sparkling maroon color. The huge flowers are due to their L. longiflorum ancestry. ‘Forza Red’ is a favorite flower among florists.

25. Lilium ‘Scheherazade’

Lilium Scheherazade

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Royalty
  • 💧 Water needs: Medium
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Moist and well-drained alkaline soils
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5 to 9
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun to partial shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid to late summer

‘Scheherazade’ majestic flower spikes with gracefully nodding blossoms may grow up to 7 feet high. The blossoms alone are a deep red with a delicate cream edging. When the light shines through the yard, it creates a beautiful illusion surrounding each blossom. The large, black anthers are a showpiece in their own right, sticking out several inches from the main bloom. Up to 40 flowers on a single stem of ‘Scheherazade’ is not unusual.

26. Lilium Black Beauty

Lilium Black Beauty

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Refinement, beauty, and secrecy
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Fertile and acidic, well-drained soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 5-8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Late summer and early autumn

If you want the most blooms for your money, Black Beauty will not fail! It will yield at least 50 blooms per head and occasionally 100 or 150 blossoms. The massive bulbs sustain the weight of the sprouts and blossoms. Each bloom has rich red exterior petals and a lime green, well-defined star in the core. Black Beauty is one of the few Oriental Blends that can grow in saline soils. Because it inherited specific characteristics from L. henryi, Black Beauty will not have a temper tantrum if planted in lime-rich soil.

27. Oriental Lily Acapulco

Oriental Lily Acapulco

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  • 🔮 Symbolism: Pureness and rejuvenation
  • 💧 Water needs: Average
  • 🪴 Soil needs: Well-draining loamy soil
  • 🌍 Growing zones: 3 to 8
  • ☀️ Light needs: Full sun or partial shade
  • 🌱 Blooming season: Mid to late summer

This is the perfect Lily for all pink fans. Its gorgeous blossoms are a consistent, radiant cerise reminiscent of the iconic Barbie doll. Every flower has a coating of deeper pink dots in the middle, and the outer petals are softly curled, relaxing the profile. Acapulco has a lovely smell and is good for presentations.

27 Perfect Types of Lily Flowers for Your Outdoor Area

Lilies are well-known summertime garden flowers that give a unique look to the landscape, and their lovely cut makes them unusual presents as well! There are many different types of lilies, and some of them are comparable to white lily blossoms that flourish nicely in the yard. You constantly hunt for white lily blooms or other lilies to grow in your garden or as a present but find it difficult to choose the correct one. Therefore, finding a lily online is a terrific way to embellish your landscape.

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