Whether you know them by their evocative names of Cape lily or cemetery plant, Crinum lilies (Crinum spp.) can transform your space into a hummingbird heaven. A spring or summer flowering bulb in the ...

Q. Several years ago I bought a crinum lily at a plant sale, and it is still doing great. But I have a question as to what I’m supposed to do to it this time of year. There’s a lot of dead brown stuff ...

I am trying to find some of those old-fashioned lilies that my grandmother grew that were in everyone’s garden when I was growing up. They have large white and red flowers with big, strapped shaped ...

You see them growing in clumps all around town, in cultivated gardens and vacant lots alike. Crinum lilies (a term that is a bit redundant in that “crinum” is the Latin word for lily) can be nigh ...

I’ve often heard gardeners in our area complain that they can’t grow tulips and other Northern bulbs that require chilling hours. But one interesting group of bulbs in the South that is the envy of ...

It feels good to say it out loud. CRY-num. Go ahead, try it: CRY-num. And here’s the best part. It not only sounds good, it IS good. Or rather THEY are good. Crinums are without a doubt the showiest ...

Crinum lilies have grown in southern gardens for more than 200 years. They were signature plants, along with the likes of azaleas and camellias. You can still find old crinums thriving today in ...

My relationship with crinum lilies started close to 30 years ago, shortly after we purchased our current house. I was working on a major re-landscaping plan and hoped to plant many daylilies to ...

We rely on tulips, daffodils and amaryllis for early and mid-spring color. But there are several to carry us through the warmer months. These "summer" bulbs can be planted now and include: Agapanthus ...

It was love at first sight that day in Brookhaven, Miss., when I came across the grand crinum lily, Crinum asiaticum. I fell in love even though it wasn't blooming. The tree-like structure of the stem ...