With the long blooming season and the diversity of shapes, sizes, colors, and types you will never discover all their secrets. They will never bore you. Lilies are prolific too. Well, maybe you don't feel like specializing right now . Maybe you need some important flowers to bloom in late June or Early July when there is a lack of color in the border . . .
Lilies mix very well with most garden flowers . . .
The slender stems do not take up much room, and the gorgeously fragrant blooms are displayed up above the lower companion plants. Unless a plant is particularly greedy or invasive, it may happily share the same garden as your lilies. Lilies are suitable for use in a shrub border, as accent plants, a formal or naturalized pool planting. Even some of the small species would fit perfectly in an alpine rock garden. Well perhaps lilies do have a reputation of unreliability . . .