North American Lily Society Inc.

The North American Lily Society (NALS) was organized in 1947 to promote interest in the Genus 'Lilium'. The society has active members from almost every state and province in North America, as well as from many countries around the world.

North American Lily Society members enjoy:

Four color Quarterly Bulletins and an annual hardbound Yearbook, covering culture, lilium species, growing from seed, propagation, and hybridization. For more information, please visit our Publications page.
A Seed Exchange, offering seed from lilium species and hybrids from around the world.
An Annual Meeting and Lily Show, where you can see fabulous lilies, attend educational seminars, and meet like-minded lily enthusiasts.
NALS also maintains a Lending Library for member use, funds Lilium research through its Research Trust, and conducts an annual Lily Popularity Poll to identify varieties that perform well for members.
The dues structure and additional benefits of membership are found on the Membership Page.
Share photographs online in the NALS Lily Gallery for everyone see.
Discuss your Lily experiences and questions on The Lily Forum as well as make new friends.

For more information about NALS, please email our of our NALS Officers.

Thank you for visiting the NALS Website. We hope to count you among our network of friends!

New Look NALS On-line Presence

Tuesday, 30 June 2009 00:00 Ray McNamara News - Website Up-Dates

After taking over the job as the new North American Lily Society Webmaster at the beginning of February the New-Look website has now replaced the old one. Hopefully this new version will allow more current and relevant information can be made available to NALS members and those with an interest in the Society and the Genus "Lilium". When Executive Members Log-in they can publish and edit content for the website via a simple web-based word-processor. This makes the site an excellent and cost effective method of distributing information and data around the globe.

As may will already be aware the NALS Seed Exchange Store has been on-line since March 2009 and preformed well. The Seed Exchange is now closed, but you can still download archived seed lists from previous years and view Seed related Articles. Many thanks to Michael Homick for his help in getting it up and running in less than a month from scratch.

Basic Botany and Feeding Requirements of Lilium

Thursday, 01 January 2009 00:00 Dr. Reg Gallop NALS Publications and Articles - Growing Lilies

by Dr. Reg Gallop, Winnipeg, MB.

A lily is a marvellous, dynamic, versatile, self managed, automated instrument in the plant series, which plays its noble and beautiful song in the magnificent symphonic opera of nature. The challenge to us as growers is to try to find the optimal cultural requirements of each lily, and then to approximate these routinely in our horticultural practices.

Gardens fill a fundamental need in human lives, and those of us who delight in our gardening efforts do our best to respect this tradition, thereby enhancing our pleasure, reflection, peace, inspiration and happiness.

How do lilies work?