How to care for daylilies, first flowers of summerDavid Dangermond
Tips on how to care for your lilies from Bloom & Wild, the UK's top rated flower delivery. Send lillies & delight someone with a beautiful bouquet, posted through their letterbox.
Indoors, place a potted Easter lily where it receivesplenty of bright light. Keep the soil consistently moist. Flowering should continue for up to two weeks, depending on the temperature in your home. To prolong the plant’s blooming period, avoid placing it in overly warm spots, such as ne...
Keep them in a shady spot with a net over the top of the pool to prevent them from jumping out. Once the pond is drained, you can take this opportunity to fertilize and/or divide your hardy waterlilies and other hardy pond plants....
Keep peace lilies out of areas where they’ll get direct sunlight all day (such as in a south-facing window), as it may dry them out too much. Watering How often should you water your peace lily?It’s not the number that matters but the dryness of the soil that counts. Keep the ...
WHY TO DIVIDE DAYLILIES Daylilies can be grown easily in any sunny location with well-draining soil; they will last for years and years. If you are an experienced daylily gardener, you may have noticed that your daylilies stopped blooming after they had been planted for 5 or more years....
A good mulch of wood chips or bark will help to preserve the moisture in the summer, as well as helping to control the weeds all year long. Propagating Daylily Plants and Growing them from Seed Daylilies should be dividedevery three to four years. ...
blooming season, but it's the trees you need to worry most about. Fall is also when bucks scrape their antlers against trees to remove the velvety layer grown over the summer. The repetitive scraping can damage and even kill trees. Make sure to use deterrents to protect trees of any ...
After blossoming, the bulb must grow and store food for the next season’s bloom. Often, the bulbs actually shrink in size from the stress of blooming and will need time to recover lost nutrients. Once the blossoms have faded, cut off the flower stalk, but keep the leaves growing by pla...
Sunflowers, Zinnias, and Cosmos are popular long-blooming wildflowers with long, sturdy stems that make good cut flowers as well. Flowers that aren't worth cutting areDaylilies,Bearded Iris, andBleeding Hearts. These flowers tend to drop petals fast, or just fail to provide long-lasting bloom...