Planting Lily of the Valley

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Lily of the Valley or Convallaria Majalis is a highly fragrant, multiplying perennial with arching stems of small, white, bell shaped flowers and elliptic leaves. This plant grows to around 15cm in height and is perfect for interesting ground cover in spring as well as a potted patio display, as demonstrated by Jeff in this video guide. You can even use these great plants for an indoor pot display in autumn by gently forcing early flowering.

 

In our varieties below not only do we offer the traditional Lily of the Valley, but also the giant variety. This is twice the height, reaching up to 30cm with around 15 flowers per stem. The same advice applies for planting this, but bear in mind the size when choosing location as this plant won’t serve the same ground cover purpose as its smaller relative.


Video Transcript

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0:00 Lily of the valley, now in Victorian times no bride probably would have had a

0:05 bouquet that didn't contain lily of the valley, a real old-fashioned plant, in and

0:11 out of fashion over the years but beautiful nonetheless, lovely fragrant

0:15 Belle like flowers a beautiful thing. There's only a couple of varieties but

0:21 there is a giant one out, really nice coming packs of ten in the catalog, we've

0:27 got they're called pips, each little plant is called a pip and you can tell why

0:33 they've got these little pips look at these beautiful healthy plants and

0:38 they're very much a woodland plants they like damp moist conditions quite shady

0:43 on a on a shady patio these will go beautiful in a pot like this soak them

0:49 in water I'll just put them on soak them in water say overnight, make sure that

0:54 these desiccated plants take up as much moisture as they can before you plant

0:58 them and then really in a pot this size 10 of these giant ones would be

1:02 beautiful, the leaves seem to hide the flowers in the flowers droop over and

1:07 you can cut the flowers if you want but I like them in a pot to see and the

1:12 perfume or the perfume is beautiful, now I'm doing it with the magic digit but

1:17 you're probably I've got a nice silver hole marked one does take out a little

1:22 as a pouch but I'm using me finger all you need to do in a in a good

1:26 multi-purpose compost is plant these well soaked pips

1:32 it really is as simple as that now these are called Bordeaux because of the giant

1:37 ones but out in the woodland garden these will create a big clump these will

1:42 give you joy and pleasure for many years to come and you can plant the plants

1:47 that your granny knew as a girl, beautiful.


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