Lilium henryi

In almost every book about bulbs, written over the last 100 years, Lilium henryi is mentioned. Gertrude Jekyl, an influential English garden designer and writer wrote in 1901 about L. henryi:

“This, though a Lily of recent introduction, promises to be an easily grown garden plant, for it has done well in almost all cases we have heard of where it has had a fair trial.”

Mrs Jekyll had an eye for quality and is proven right, henryi is an easily grown lily that does well in every reasonable garden soil.