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    A Beginners Guide To Growing Lilies From Seed
    A Beginners Guide To Growing Lilies From Seed
    A Beginners Guide To Growing Lilies From Seed
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    A Beginners Guide To Growing Lilies From Seed

    By Kevin Frey

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    All the basic information you need to start growing lilies from seed. Anyone from the beginner to the pro in the garden will find usefull information and tips for a succssesful start to a colourful lily garden. Even better is this is a low cost way to start a life long hobby. Put together from over 12 years of experiance of growing lilies commercially
    for mail order, wholesale, cutflower, and the local farmers market in a northern cold climate garden. These methods have worked well for years in a cold canadian prairie garden that is open to all that mother nature can provide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Frey
    Release dateDec 18, 2012
    ISBN9781301953226
    A Beginners Guide To Growing Lilies From Seed
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    Kevin Frey

    A gardener and avid explorer of things. I have been growing lilies in one way or another since 2000, taking over for a friend and mentor. At one point having close to 400 different lilies, 60 different peonies, 125 different daylilies, and other assorted perennials in my gardens. I have sold them as finished products to other greenhouses and shipped dormant plants by mail order all over nothern America and also shipped a few to different places over seas.

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      A Beginners Guide To Growing Lilies From Seed - Kevin Frey

      A Beginners Guide to Growing Lilies From Seed

      By Kevin Frey

      Text and Images Copyright 2012 Kevin Frey

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Starting Lily Seed Outdoors

      Starting Lily Seed Indoors

      The Habits of Lily Seed

      The Future of Lilies

      The Basics of Hybridizing Lilies

      Storing Lily Seeds

      In Conclusion

      Lily Societies In North America

      Books Used In Reference

      About The Writer

      Introduction

      Growing lilies from seed is a very rewarding adventure. Lily seed is a cost effective way of starting many lily species as well as starting your own new hybrid lilies. The lily seeds can be purchased for a fraction of the cost of buying mature lily bulbs. The only thing a person will need is patience, as it can take a bit of time to get the first blooming flower.

      There are many different lily species to choose from, about 80 different varieties from all over the world. Many of these will give you a fist flower in two to three years, while others can take up to six or seven years from first planting of the seed. They are worth the wait and reward that comes.

      What will be covered is a basic list of species lilies and what group they fall into. They basically fall into quick germinating or delayed germinating. As well simple methods of starting the seeds and how to grow them on.

      To start with there are two basic groups or habits that lilies seed fall into. The first one is

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