I dug up the bulbs and am wondering if they can be saved? Can I just cut the remaining stem away and replant them or should they be stored dry until fall and planted then I purchased a lily with 3 beautiful fragrant flowers.
Will it flower again? Is there anything I can do to help the process besides water and fertilizer? I had a huge area of Easter lilies in my front garden for at least 12 years, along with several Asiatic lilies in the yard.
Three years ago, along came the Japanese lily beetle, and that was the end for them. I'm not sure how far they've traveled yet but if you see a beautiful red beetle on your lilies, get some tissues ready because you'll cry. Manually crushing them before they lay eggs is the accepted method of control but that's a big task and I can't imagine anyone saving their lilies once the beetles arrive. While they don't devour the entire plant, they do such severe damage that any lilies that do make it to bloom are weak and fall apart within a day or two at most.
I tried for three years to get the beetles in early spring at the first sign of foliage coming up but they hide out well. The only good news is that daylilies, which are not true lilies, are not affected. My Easter and Asiatic lilies are gone now and I'm not prepared to spend money on new ones to feed the little red creeps.
Be cautious about bringing lilies in for cut flowers if you have cats or dogs. Most lilies are very toxic to pets. My grandmother recently passed away and her house has been sold. She has a tiger lily that I would like to keep, but the temperatures in the area are highs of upper 30's and lows of low to mid 20's.
What's my best option for moving the bulbs and establishing them in my garden? This may or may not work but your best bet may be to dig deep and wide around them, not disturbing or touching the bulbs—perhaps not even seeing them. Store them in a pot or box in similar conditions until spring and let them thaw naturally. Then when the soil can be worked, plant them. IF this does not work, buy others. Checking the spot where my lilies are, I noticed the bulbs are showing through the dirt. Should I dig them plant them deeper?
It's November now and they are on the south side of the house. Per the guidance above: Before winter, add 4 to 6 inches of mulch, simply to delay the ground freeze and allow the roots to keep growing. Leave the mulch until spring once the last hard frost has passed. See your local frost dates. From Central Minnesota, I have many varieties of Asiatic Lillies and every year I get a few plants that are yellow from spring to fall and stay very short.
I fertilizer throughout the season and mulch in winter. They are not being over watered. They are planted in direct sunlight. One year they are picture perfect and then the next year they are yellow all year long.
What can I do to bring them back to life? I have what I think are Stella de Oro day lillies. After the flower they turn to a big green seed pod. Should I let this happen? Should I pull the dead flowers before it happens? Should I pluck these off? Please advise. Thank you! Plants producing seed are likely to have fewer flowers the following year. The Cooperative Extension service in Florida could tell you which lilies thrive in which parts of the state.
Extreme temperatures will have an impact on flower color development in plants, primarily due to the effect of temperature on pigments. In general, high temperatures lead to lighter flower colors due to reduced anthocyanin content in plants such as oriental lily and others. Conversely, low temperatures result in darker flowers because of increased anthocyanin content in plants. Anthocyanins play an irreplaceable role in the color development of plants.
Light is another major factor that affects flower color, particularly light intensity, light quality and photoperiod. Water is key, too: Appropriate water content allows plants to maintain their inherent flower colors for a longer period of time, while water deficiency drought stress causes flowers to turn darker.
I have a bed of lilies, purchased at different times through different merchants. After a few years, they have all turned white! They are all asiatic lilies. I have never seen this before. Any ideas? You can plant the bulb in deep pots plant about 6 inches deep for large bulbs in container but it needs to be outdoors for natural sunlight.
After a great flowering this year, I have enormous seed heads. I have removed them and opened one to find a minimum of "1million" seeds - I consider!! I have searched the internet and find it may be 7years before they grow to flowering state, but prior to that, what should I do? Dry them? Let them drop into the ground? Is it worth it? Thank you, Dianne. This is not our area of expertise, so with thanks to NDSU. There are three different groups of lilies when it comes to seed germination.
Immediate seed germinators are fairly easy to propagate from seed. This group includes most of the commercially important species. Another group is the epigeal slow seed germinators. These germinate slowly and erratically, but the procedures to propagate them are the same as for the immediate germinators. The hypogeoal slow seed germinators are very difficult to propagate. These seeds require three months of warm conditions, in which the root grows and a small bulblet is produced, followed by six weeks of cold treatment, and then another warm period, in which the leaves and stem begin to grow.
To propagate from seed, sow the seed in pots in the late winter or early spring in a cold frame. If you plant the bulb to near the top of the soil, the exposure to the sun can harm the bulb. Based outside Atlanta, Ga. Beginning her career at newspapers such as the "Marietta Daily Journal" and the "Atlanta Business Chronicle," she most recently worked in communications and management for several nonprofit organizations before purchasing a flower shop in By Shala Munroe.
Related Articles. Age Newly planted bulbs can take their time to bloom, sometimes up to days. Poor Drainage Lilies need frequent watering to bloom properly, but they can't survive standing water.
Damage Your lily bulb makes a tasty treat for several types of creatures. Exposure Lily bulbs should be planted as soon as possible, after the last frost in the spring or before the first frost in the fall. I have found that sometimes very early in the season when the lily is first coming up and I am weeding I will inadvertently step on a lily top. The lily will come up but cannot bloom. Sometimes cats, dogs,, balls and children do the same thing. This spring I took the blooms off of three lilies while they were only up an inch or two.
Me to Sharon. I broke a few this Spring If the lily leaves are green, maybe the bulb needs a year to feed and grow. I have naturalized daffodils and here in DFW was told dig deeper and get the soil turned. But when planting the bulbs go shallow, our chill line is closer to the surface, and the bulbs can adjust themselves.
The same is even more true with lilies. I turn a little deeper hole but plant shallow, a lily will move itself and is closer to the chill line. The nice thing about this area is that Asiatics are reliable in pots.
I have large pots that each contain a patio rose , start with one lily bulb, and some annuals self sowers. Dress a quarter of soil each year and in three years there is a nice clump of lilies to put in the ground and I replace all the soil and start over with one lily in the pot. They are fed a little heavier because of the rose but I think they just grow faster.
I do not move the pots in winter. I clip my tops after blooming to stop seed formation and would lightly clip the top of any that do not flower. This year I am going to try pulling the leaves with stem to propagate. Nice to meet you Javamom! Have a joyful day! Thank you!!! Glad to hear from you I also want to thanks jmorth for sending me the bulbs of gorgeous gloriosas, aztec and Pineapple LIlies, hopefully they will love their new home in TX and give me beautiful blooms like jmorth has!!!
Look what's in the mail today Thank you jmorth!!! No I will have to take photos to show how they grow in hot North Texas Summer!!! What a terrific mail parcel you received Javamom from jmorth!!
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