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Lilies offer hardy beauty to garden landscape

by VALLE NOVAK Contributing Writer
| January 16, 2022 1:00 AM

Many years ago, Amos Pettingill of White Flower Farm wrote: “There is no flower more graceful and lovely than the lily. The blooms of this hardy and long-lived genus are colorful and varied in form, and many are richly fragrant. Lilies are superb in a mixed border, magnificent interplanted with earlier bulbs and ferns, and quite unbelievably beautiful when scattered in large numbers across a meadow or woodland … of course they also offer glorious and long-lasting cut flowers...

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