What: Lilium Fusion offers abundant flowers atop leafy stalks with golden centers, speckled burgundy and deep orange-red tips during summertime. This unusual lily hybrid combines the best of Lilium pardalinum, a California native, and Lilium longiflorum from southern Japan and Taiwan, also known as the Easter lily.
Where: Fusion lily grows best in full sun, but will bloom fine in light shade. Provide a location with rich, well-drained soil and water frequently, two to three times a week for the best show. Bulbs can be planted from fall to early spring. Bulbs can be moved or divided in fall or winter.
Size: Grows to 4 feet tall by 1 feet wide in 10 years.
Care: Once the foliage yellows, it can be cut to the ground. Protect new growth from slugs and snails in spring.
— greatplantpicks.org
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