Oriental Lily named Millesimo
by J McCombie
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Oriental Lily named Millesimo
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J McCombie
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Oriental lily "Millesimo" is one of the most fancy and unique lilies on the market. The thin pink line on the wavy edge of the pure white, large flowers makes this variety awesome.
Millesimo' has extremely fragrant, upright flowers that blossom on 36 to 48" stems. The pollen on the anthers is a bright orange and the tip of the stigma is a soft velvety purple-pink that matches the flower outline. It has yellow-green ribs that match the filaments and style. Millesimo has no spots, just textured bumps and hooks or thorns underneath the ends of the petals.
Spectacular Oriental Lilies are one of the last groups of lilies to bloom, giving you incredible colour and fragrance in the late summer garden. Large, exotic flowers have an incredible scent. As a cut flower, just one stem is often enough to make an elegant centerpiece of bouquet. Each bulb will produce more and more flowers every year, eventually producing more stems as well.
The most beautiful and fragrant flowers in the world of lilium are to be found among the Oriental lilies, with their happy personalities, huge exotic flowers, incredible scent or intense fragrance, and late blooming rich colors. Your garden will come alive with this rich mixture of bright colored blooms and sweet fragrance. Enormous, fragrant flowers in many vibrant shades including but not limited to yellow, red, pink, crimson, pure white, pink-and-white, and many more! Growing and blooming on strong, straight stems in July and August on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Hardiness Zone Map ... the show is breathtaking, the perfume intoxicating.
Oriental lily heights vary from 3ft to 5ft (and sometimes taller), and the flowers may be bowl-shaped or flat-faced, lacy petal edges, sometimes with recurved petals and many other forms. Use vibrant Oriental Lilies to fill spaces in flower borders or make an even more outstanding show and plant a dozen or two in the cutting garden, making the most flamboyant, extravagant bouquet. With intoxicatingly fragrant star-shaped flowers, it is superb for cutting and just one stem is often enough to make an elegant centerpiece of bouquet.
They prefer a rich, moist soil on the acidic side, with similar needs to Rhododendrons. Each bulb will produce more and more flowers every year, eventually producing more stems as well. Clumps may be divided after a few years by digging up the bulbs in mid autumn, separating them and replanting to a new location.
Oriental hybrids (Division VII). These are based on hybrids within Lilium section Archelirion, specifically L. auratum and L. speciosum, together with crossbreeds from several species native to Japan, including L. nobilissimum, L. rubellum, L. alexandrae, and L. japonicum. They are fragrant, and the flowers tend to be outward facing. Plants tend to be tall, and the flowers may be quite large. The whole group are sometimes referred to as "stargazers" because many of them appear to look upwards. (For the specific cultivar, see Lilium 'Stargazer'.)
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