Create a Scented Garden by Planting 'Oriental' Varieties

Customer photo of the Red Hot Lily by Nancy Ptomey of Overland Park, Kan.—one of the Oriental Trumpet varieties. "It is a beautiful flower and smells a lot like freshly ground cinnamon with a hint of ginger."

Holland's world-famous flower breeders have introduced several exciting new varieties of fragrant hybrid lilies, and Dutch Gardens is honored to offer several of the best. Many of these lilies are so fragrant that just one or two blooms can scent your entire garden. Plant the bulbs this spring, and they'll be in bloom by late summer.

In recent years, the gardening world has welcomed an entirely new class of lilies called "Oriental Trumpets." These hybrids combine the fragrance and flower shape of Oriental Lilies with the vigor, color and high bud count of the Trumpet Lilies. Oriental Trumpets have been called "super lilies" due to their increased productivity, impressive size and beauty, and luscious colors.

Shocking Lily

For a dazzling display of late-summer color and heady fragrance, Oriental Lilies never fail to deliver. An outstanding Oriental Lily is Acapulco. Noted for its high bud count, this is one of the longest-blooming lilies you can grow. Miss Lucy is a striking newcomer with a double form—a highly unusual form in the Oriental Lily group. These doubles are bred to have no anthers, so there's no pollen.