I have acquired stunning "Black Beauty" at Earth Bound Gardens at Red Bay, Bruce Peninsula - an hybrid between orienal tal and trumpet. Its flower takes the exotic shape of tiger lily but with breath-taking stargazer's colors. I have seen it up to 8 feet tall at the Lily Lady's garden in Red Bay.
Bred 50 years ago by Leslie Woodriff, this is the original Orienpet Lily, combining the best of Oriental Lilium speciosum rubrum and trumpet lilies Lilium henryi into one delightful cultivar. It is now the parents of many a modern variety. A magnificent summer bloomer, it sets masses of deep claret-colored blooms, each delicately outlined in white. With this super-easy plant, the show just gets better with each passing year and eventually can reach the height of 7 feet.
Black Beauty's flowers are breathtaking with recurved (bent back) petals are a deep cherry red with a lime green throat, bold brick-red anthers, and the faintest white edging. The blooms measure 3 to 4 inches across and arise in large, showy clusters on plants that reach 3 to 4 feet tall but only 1½ feet wide. This Lily colonizes nicely once it feels in the garden, so leave room for it to spread or plan to divide it every 2 to 3 years. It can be grown in hardy zones from 3 - 8.
Bred 50 years ago by Leslie Woodriff, this is the original Orienpet Lily, combining the best of Oriental Lilium speciosum rubrum and trumpet lilies Lilium henryi into one delightful cultivar. It is now the parents of many a modern variety. A magnificent summer bloomer, it sets masses of deep claret-colored blooms, each delicately outlined in white. With this super-easy plant, the show just gets better with each passing year and eventually can reach the height of 7 feet.
Black Beauty's flowers are breathtaking with recurved (bent back) petals are a deep cherry red with a lime green throat, bold brick-red anthers, and the faintest white edging. The blooms measure 3 to 4 inches across and arise in large, showy clusters on plants that reach 3 to 4 feet tall but only 1½ feet wide. This Lily colonizes nicely once it feels in the garden, so leave room for it to spread or plan to divide it every 2 to 3 years. It can be grown in hardy zones from 3 - 8.
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