We are delighted to share our catalog with you, full of the best garden lilies available anywhere! Here you will find lilies to please every palate, including many of our own hybrids that span the spectrum of flower size, color, plant height, shape and form. Our own unique Lily Garden creations are marked “LG,” and these wonderful lilies are born and bred on our farm! All our offerings have been tested and selected specifically with the garden in mind–our lilies are strong, persistent, disease-resistant, and above all, beautiful!
The Asiatics bloom earliest, beginning in early June with a vast array of colors; the Trumpets and Aurelians come next, perfuming the garden in July; “Orienpet” hybrids blossom through July and into August; and the Orientals provide a grand finale in late July and August with their large, fragrant blooms.
Catherine creates our catalog each July (in turn providing the photos and text for this website), and it goes to press before the end of the growing season. Only harvest will show how the lily bulbs “size up.” We expect to add some new varieties to our website in September, updating it again in early spring. Check this website, thelilygarden.com for our most current selection, web-only varieties as they become available, and the latest unique treasures for connoisseurs!
Hardy lily bulbs will return year after year with only the simplest maintenance. Each year you can expect more and more flowers to grace your garden with color, longevity, fragrance, and beautiful form.
We hope you enjoy looking through our own lily garden, and that you will choose to add our fine plants to your garden, as well.
Enjoy the lilies!
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Hummingbirds love lilies!
We are often asked if any
of our lilies attract hummingbirds, or if there are certain
lilies they prefer.
Because we grow them all ourselves, here on our own farm, we photograph all our lilies in the field to show you how they really look. For more than 30 years, we’ve made it our mission to provide you with beautiful, reliable garden lilies, and we absolutely guarantee every bulb to grow and bloom.
Our friend Niels van Noort began growing and hybridizing crocosmias about 10 years ago. We’ve been fascinated by his progress creating new forms in a wider range of colors, heights, flowering time, and hardiness. We offer some of our favorite crocosmias, including new and exclusive van Noort originations!
Crocosmia 'Adriana'™
Open pollination,
as evidenced by Juliana's nose!
Catherine, Juliana and Annelies
stand tall beside 'Quintessence'
in the Matson's lily garden.
Specializing in unique lilies for your garden for more than 30 years!
My first year of breeding lilies - 40 years ago!
See the little aluminum foil caps on all the pollinated flowers?
I've used at least 50,000 of these little caps, all cut and rolled by hand, during the last 4 decades!
Dear Friends,
This is a special year for me, celebrating 40 years of hybridizing and growing lilies! I began working as the geneticist at Oregon Bulb Farms the first week in September 1971, and it’s been a continuing pleasure to work with, to grow, and to study lilies over the last 40 years. There have been incredible developments in lily breeding and commercial lily growing during all these years, and the future surely holds more delights for gardeners. It is fascinating and humbling to hybridize lilies—with every cross comes some new wrinkle to tell me that there’s still more to learn and another generation essential to figuring out those elusive genes!
The other, and equally great, pleasure in working with lilies is the friendship of so many wonderful people! This is my heart-felt “Thank you!” to all of you who have shared your comments, your photographs, your questions, and your enthusiasm for lilies over the years.
Just WHAT is in that cold, cold ground?
The rest of United States seems to be sweltering in summer 2011, but the Pacific Northwest is having the coldest, latest summer I’ve ever experienced. (Our local newspaper says that our summer 2011 temperatures should have a “windchill factor” listed!) This makes it really difficult to forecast which lilies to include in the catalog this fall, since I won’t know until harvest just what has happened down in that cold, cold ground! Check our website for the most up-to-date availability and information, If varieties say “limited supply,” please do check the website before you order, especially in the spring.
Will this be our last catalog?
I’d appreciate your comments about the usefulness of a print catalog as compared with our website. I love books in any form and thus treasure old catalogs along with the new, but many of our customers tell us that they’d much rather use the website.
The website gives us a quicker response to questions about availability and updates with newer varieties; and as more people choose to order from the website, it becomes harder to justify the expense of printing and mailing catalogs. This may be our last printed catalog, but we need you to help us make a final decision.
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We are often asked if any
of our lilies attract hummingbirds, or if there are certain
lilies they prefer.
indicates our own unique Lily Garden creations,