Of course you can buy them ready-potted in the spring or early summer - supermarkets as diverse as Waitrose and Morrisons sell them patio-ready - but you will have more choice of lilies if you plant ...

If looming sunflowers are not to your taste, why not consider growing the world's tallest lily in time for summer? Horticulturalists have created a towering version of the popular flower that can grow ...

Oh, how we love our camellias and azaleas — showing them off during the blooming seasons with pride. However, there is another colorful flower that should attract more attention — crinum lilies. The ...

When you’re choosing bulbs for spring bloom and you plan to plant them anywhere near trees, smaller is better. That’s the bulb size, not the plant size, said Samantha Peckham, horticulturist at The ...

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 ...

I walk through my back door into a fantasy land not unlike the John Singer Sargent painting Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose in Tate Britain. The air is thick with a velvety perfume from early morning ...

Dear Master Gardener: I overwintered my calla lily rhizomes and they are in good shape, but sprouting. When and how should I plant them? Answer: The elegant and beautiful calla lily is not a true lily ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. You may be more familiar with the Hippeastrum genus ...