Add lilies to the landscaping and to the interior of your business to make your business colorful and pleasing to the eye. A pleasantly decorated work space helps to influence the morale and productivity of your employees, and a pretty exterior can have a direct impact on the amount of foot traffic you can expect to see.

Educate yourself on the variety of lilies available from which you can choose. With exotic names such as tiger lilies, water lilies, calla lilies, stargazer lilies and spider lilies, it can be challenging to find something you're comfortable with and able to grow successfully. Start with the familiar Easter lilies and explore other lilies to build a beautiful landscape.

1. Find the information about lilies you need to grow them successfully.

2. Order all types of lilies from reputable companies.

3. Hire a landscape company to maintain your lilies.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Learn how to grow lilies

Ignore lilies' reputation for being difficult flowers to grow that require endless time and devotion to coax a bloom. Today's lilies are hardier and healthier than they've ever been and are suitable for both indoor and outdoor planting.

I recommend: The Lily Garden gives you the instructions you need to successfully grow lilies in your landscaping. Hillclimb Media gives you the guidance you need to grow lilies in pots and containers.

Shop for high-quality lily bulbs

Take advantage of gardening catalogs that allow you to peruse the company's selection of lily bulbs at your leisure. Such catalogs will help you with not only descriptions and prices of the bulbs they sell, but also with photographs of what your lily bulbs will grow to look like in your landscaping.

I recommend: Dutch Gardens offers a variety of lilies as well as information on how to grow lilies. Vletter and Den Haan has a large selection of lilies from which to choose.

Contract with a landscape company to grow your lilies

Shop around and find a local landscape company who will maintain your lilies for you, freeing up your time so you can run your business. The professionals typically perform landscape maintenance discreetly so your landscape seems to thrive on its own. You can contract for service for your outdoor plantings, indoor plants or a combination of both to allow your plantings to grow successfully.

I recommend: ValleyCrest has offices across the country and is happy to provide you with the landscape maintenance you need. Chapel Valley Landscape Company provides all types of commercial landscaping from the initial planning to the routine maintenance so you can enjoy your landscape.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Know your growing zone so you buy lilies that grow in your climate. You can find your growing zone in any catalog that supplies bulbs or seeds for sale.