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Asiatic lily - winter care
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Posted by dragyn51 z5 NE (My Page) on Tue, Jun 21, 05 at 18:18
| I love the beautiful color of the Elgrado Asiatic Lily (Red to almost burgundy)
I read about cutting the blooms off when they are done but leave the stem. In the fall after cutting the stem down, can I leave them in the ground to come up next year like day lilies etc. I have never had good luck with finding a good place to store bulbs so they usually never grow the next season.
Will it kill them for sure to leave them in the ground or can it be done?
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RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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| I don't have the Lily you mentioned, but have tons of others. I leave all my lilies in the ground. My asiatics come back reliably every year and multiply readily. Good luck with yours. :-) |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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| As a fellow Nebraskan, you can leave them in the ground, they are extremely hardy here. Mine have multiplied again and again. I think the secret is a well drained area and a little shade. Stay cool - Piegirl |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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CynKerr Pittsburgh, PA (CynKerr@aol.com) on Sun, Sep 13, 09 at 9:49
| I purchased some type of Asiatic Lilly in July when it was in full bloom. (It might be the same one another poster posted about...beautiful reddish/burgandy color). I never got around to planting it in the ground. Just left it in the original pot (4" maybe). Should I plant it now before winter hits, or bring it in the house and plant in the spring? |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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Cyn,
You can wait until the stalk and leaves have turned brown and plant them in the ground before it is frozen over. They'll sprout in spring and bloom in early summer. Or you can plant them now if you are careful not to break the stalk. |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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| My leaves on my Lillies have turned brown and fallen off.The stalks are still ok.Do I cut them or leave them for winter? |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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| The stalks, too, will turn yellow/brown and get woody. Unless you like the look of them once they do, they can be cut down since the bulb will have taken and stored all the energy it can get from them. |
Lily clump winter care
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yesterday, I dug a hole 6 inch away from my existing lily plant(leaves, stalk everything has died of this one) to plant a daylily plant. When I was putting the soil back into the hole, my hand ran over something soft and I turned and I saw something pure white, I got scared thinking it is some kind of ground animal. I looked closer and found it was lily clump of small thick, succulent fan or cloves. I hurriedly covered it with soil but I am worried, how much I should cover the soil on top of it and how much mulch should I add to save this huge crown like thing? I definitely want it to live and bloom next spring.
Thank you for your advice! |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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| I can't believe no one has answered her. I'm sure there are many of us waiting for knowlegable advise here. |
RE: Asiatic lily - winter care
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| Just cover the bulb back up. As long as you didn’t slice deeply into it, it should be fine. For some reason, some lilies send their stalk up at an angle and not straight up from the bulb. So even if you leave a "safe" zone around the stem, sometimes you can hit one where you don’t expect it to be. This happened to me before. Just a few days ago I ended up breaking off a few scales (the things that look like garlic cloves) that way. The main bulb was ok, so I just put some fresh dirt back next to it. Then I just stuck the loose ones back in the ground where, in a few years, they will make a new plant. kaali_maali: If you have a specific question, it is better to post it to a new thread. That way people know it is a new question, and give it the attention it deserves. Otherwise once there are a certain number of replies we assume the original question was answered, and don’t look further and find out there is a new one tacked on. If you post it yourself, and check the little box on the preview page to have replies e-mailed to you, then you will know when you have an answer too. Otherwise the original poster is getting all the replies. |
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