6. Choosing the Right Spot in Your Garden
Lilies are attractive plants that please the eye. Their pure white flowers with yellow centers catch the eye from anywhere in the garden. Gardeners planting hybrid varieties can expect a hardy plant that keeps returning year after year to flower spectacularly. Because of their perennial nature, it’s best to give lilies a flowerbed of their own, where no other plants intrude on their root space.
Select a flowerbed that receives good amounts of sun during the day. Lilies don’t do well in the shade, and you can expect weakened flowering conditions if they don’t get enough sunlight. For those gardeners planting Asiatic varieties, its best to use a high-alkaline soil that’s combined with peat and clay pebbles.
Oriental lily hybrids require acidic soil to thrive, these plants do well in containers and pots, due to their need for specific soil combinations. These hybrids suit advanced growers with expertise in raising different species of lilies.