Plant Database

Group/Class:  Lily Looks Series

Brand:  Zabo Plant

Description:

This compact variety produces deep plum blooms with stunning white petal tips; perfect for garden containers, massing, or border plantings; tends to have more blooms per stem than most lilies, which will definitely make an impact in the garden

Ornamental Features

Lily Looks™ Tiny Padhye Lily features bold plum purple trumpet-shaped flowers with white tips at the ends of the stems in early summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. Its narrow leaves remain green in colour throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Lily Looks™ Tiny Padhye 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.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should be cut back in late fall in preparation for winter. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects
• Disease

Lily Looks™ Tiny Padhye Lily is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use

Planting & Growing

Lily Looks™ Tiny Padhye Lily will grow to be about 16 inches tall at maturity extending to 22 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.