Lilium leucanthum, originating from China, has huge white trumpets with a dark chocolate-raspberry reverse. Stems will grow taller year after year and bear more flowers, reaching 8 feet or more at maturity. Fragrant! 4 to 8 feet, July.

Lilium regale is a beautiful white trumpet with a pink reverse. Its silvery leaves are lovely even before its regal crown of sweet-scented flowers appears, the first fragrant trumpet in the garden each year! Voted “favorite species” in the recent NALS Popularity Poll. 3 to 4 feet, late June-early July.