An easy way to get more of a particular lily is scaling. You take a bulb and separate off some of the scales, one by one, from the base, plant them up in well draining compost and grow them on. If you start with a large bulb and only take a few scales, you can still plant it and get flowers, so have your cake and eat it too
With some varieties that are very expensive you can take more scales off and get a number of plants with the investment of time rather than money, so that in a few years you can have a generous drift of something fabulous. Some lilies (bulbiferous) produce little bulbils in the leaf axils and you can pot these up too for even more plants.
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The fancy ones won't come true from seed but anything that makes a viable seed can be propagated. I should think 3 years+ for a flower.
In the sticks near Peterborough
An easy way to get more of a particular lily is scaling. You take a bulb and separate off some of the scales, one by one, from the base, plant them up in well draining compost and grow them on. If you start with a large bulb and only take a few scales, you can still plant it and get flowers, so have your cake and eat it too
With some varieties that are very expensive you can take more scales off and get a number of plants with the investment of time rather than money, so that in a few years you can have a generous drift of something fabulous. Some lilies (bulbiferous) produce little bulbils in the leaf axils and you can pot these up too for even more plants.