LOOK to the lilies

摘要

Few flowers can compete for looks with lilies. Carol Klein offers up her favourites to plant in pots and borders for a summer of sumptuous beautyMy first recollection of lilies is of their scent on a sultry summer evening, drifting down the broad steps of the first flat I rented in London, filling the place with heady perfume. Then, at art history lectures showing images of Renaissance paintings depicting the Madonna and her lily, Lilium candidum, I yearned to see not just the real Botticelli painting, The Madonna and Child with Eight Angels, with its background of tall lily stems, but also the lily flowers themselves.