Dutch breeders are gilding the lily flowers, and are trying to raise the standard of cut flower favorite that brings long-lasting beauty to gardens.
New varieties of flowers with deep and beautiful colours, stronger stems and softer fragrances are inflowing the floral market, prompting retailers to frequently update their websites and catalogues with the new variety in flowers.
"As per the Duch Hybridier’s their customers seemed interested in new lily varieties and this is generating a huge demand for the flower. The new variety of lily is growing with the wide variety of colours to suit the requirement of the customers. The Dutch hybridizers are gilding the lily to upgrade the cut flower that would also bring long-lasting beauty to gardens.”
 Breeders has selected flowers like lilies as the hybrids can be crossed and their offspring can be sold more quickly than any other bulb flowers, For example flowers like tulips, may require decades to grow with a better shape or colour. Gardeners prefer flowers like lilies as the bulbs are so easy to grow.
They bloom for a long time, and gives pleasure to a viewer when placed in any hand bunch or centre table arrangements.
They're colourful and often elegantly used in the decors in any weddings or events. Lilies are available in different heights and are used as per the requirements like the shorter varieties are well suited to be decorated in any containers or pots. Whereas the lilies with the tall sticks are used in and elegance to its making arrangements and hand bunches which ads style arrangement.
Lilies are unusual in a way that they can be planted even in fall or spring, they grow either way. Traditionally, there were only four variety of lilies which were available: Asiatic lily, Oriental lily, Longiflorum and Trumpet. But the Dutch breeders have actively crossed these varieties, and has successfully produced 60 to 70 new varieties on an average, each year. Most of them are developed to boost the quality and make shipping easier for the cut flower industry.
The most common variety of flowers which re developed are Longiflorum-Oriental varieties, it carry traits of both - notably large blooms and heavy fragrance. That also goes for another variety which is produced i.e Oriental-Asiatics, with their bright colours, shiny foliage and softer scent, which attracts the customers and suffice their needs in the best way.
Then another variety Longiflorum-Asiatic, which exhibit a brightly coloured, trumpet-shaped bloom has features like double-petal and spider varieties makes it easy to understand why flower growers and admirers also call this the new golden age of the lily.The Fresh flower industry is now focusing to bring the industry, the breeder and the consumer together to see what new varieties can be produced. This revolution will involve education with seminars, lectures and displays of cut flowers to enhance the knowledge of the growers and users.
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