Matrix Orange Lily
Lilium 'Matrix Orange'
DeGroot
Asiatic Hybrid
$11.00
A brilliant lily with gorgeous, large orange blooms creating a memorable impact in the garden; perfect choice to create a striking focal point in borders or massed, particularily great for planters because of shorter plant height
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Matrix Orange Lily is an herbaceous perennial with a rigidly upright and towering form. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Matrix Orange Lily features bold orange trumpet-shaped flowers at the ends of the stems in mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves remain green in color throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Matrix Orange Lily will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial | this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter | and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by multiplication of the underground bulbs; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 18"(24"withtheflowers)Hx12"W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are orange
Flowers in mid summer
Zone 3a
Likes well drained soil