Lilium 'Star Gazer'
Lily
- Height × spread
- 0.9m × 0.5m
- Position
- Tolerates full sun, likes part shade, likes light shade
- Hardiness
- Very cold to -20C (RHS H6)
- Flowers
- Summer
Availability
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About this plant
An Oriental Hybrid lily which is low-growing and which has exotic and improbable flowers of a shocking pink. The flower has extravagantly splayed petals and long cream stamens. It is a plant which enjoys acidic soil and likes a site in dappled shade. It is summer-flowering.
- Flower colour
- Pink
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- Yes, fragrant
- Shape
- Column
- Height
- 0.9m
- Spread
- 0.5m
- Season of interest
- Summer
- Flowers in
- Summer
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Cottage garden
- Sun or shade
- Tolerates full sun, likes part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Very cold to -20C (RHS H6)
- Borders & containers
- Borders and containers
- Hazards
- Yes, potentially harmful
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water to keep the soil moist
For best results, this plant needs soil that is always moist. Water deeply and regularly as soon as soil appears dry. Even for established plants in the ground, a dry week can cause problems with some soils. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather. Or install an automatic irrigation system which will do the hard work for you, even when you are away on holiday.
Without regular watering some plants never fully regain their beauty.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Feed with high potash feed several times
Apply a fertiliser that is high in potash (potassium) several times while the plant is in flower.
Where fertiliser values are listed on a packet they are in order - nitrogen, phosphate, potassium with percentage values of each. For high potash choose a fertiliser where potassium is higher.
Spring-Winter · Planting
Remove bulbils & bulblets
As the plants begin to enter dormancy, it is possible to remove the tiny bulbils that are growing in leaf axils and any bulblets around its base. These can be potted up and grown on to create new plants.
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