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Turk’s Cap Lilies truly look like a Turk’s Cap and they add real splendor to your garden if you live in zones 3 to 8. These lilies do not reach the height of other lilies and only grow to about thirty inches. However, when you have a clump of them planted together then you really have something.
Turk’s Cap Lilies bloom from July through August. Some suppliers say they grow up to six feet in height. However, mine never got above thirty inches. They do well in full sun to partial shade and I have many of them planted just outside of our long pergola and they did fine for about 4 seasons until a fool I had hired to do some hand pulling weeding decided to take a weed whacker to them and about twelve feet by six feet of a magnificent lily bed. Lilies are like tulips. Once the bloom has gone you need to let their energy go back down to the bulb so they can come back each year. Once they were weed whacked the whole bed of lilies never returned and I have yet to replace that who large bed of Asiatic, Oriental and Turk’s Cap lilies.
Mine were those brilliant orange spotted maroon ones and were a pleasure to see. They should be planted in the fall and planted about 12 to 24 inches apart and since they are a perennial you will be rewarded as they spread out each year. They prefer medium to wet moisture and if your Turk’s Caps never bloomed that may well be part of your problem.
Turk’s cap lily is a native of eastern North America and can be found wild in moist woods and wet meadows where they grow wild. However, they can be planted all over the United States in zones 3 to 8.
Though many growers say the Turk’s Cap is the tallest of all native American Lilies as I said the ones I purchased years ago never got over 3 feet. The orange flowers are usually two to four inches wide and covered with maroon spots and have greenish throats. The heads or blooms face downward and nod in the breeze and the petals and sepals are sharply curved back to form a “Turk’s cap.” The leaves are a lovely, glossy green.
The Latin name for Turk’s cap lily is Lilium superbum and it will attract a lot of butterflies to your organic garden. These lilies are pollinated by pipevine swallowtail butterflies, eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies, great spangled fritillaries and the spicebush swallowtail butterfly. So why not add Turk’s Cap Lilies to your garden?
“Tread the Earth Lightly” and in the meantime… May your day be filled with…Peace, Light and Love,
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