Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me about lilies. I was thinking about putting them in my yard along a fence to hide it...is this a good choice? How hardy are they? If I plant them now, how long before they'd be approx.
3ft high? Any info is greatly appreciated. I'm not sure what zone I am, I'm in upstate NY near Buffalo. Thanks Cg
What kind of lilies? I think you could grow daylilies up there, we had them in MA, growing wild. Not sure about the oriental lilies or plants like Easter lilies. You have a few options. They'll all get a few feet high, but only in midsummer, so it won't hide your fence the rest of the year.
Dawn
Some of my Asiatic and Oriental lilies have grown to 5' tall. Nearly all are over 3'. Of course my daylillies don't grow anywhere near that high.
"Lillies" covers such a broad category, you can't make a blanket statement about them not growing more than 2' tall unless you qualify that by saying what kind of lillies you're talking about -- or at least narrow it down a bit.
Not very. Oriental lily foliage is thin and sparse, and the plants die back each year. The blooms las only a few weeks, and the rest of the time they're just 1 tall stem with some thin leaves.
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