Deadheading Lilies

Lollypop Lilies have a long-lasting fresh fragrance that will enhance your cut flower bouquets. Grows 30-40'' tall. Plant in April and get tons of blooms in June and July. It will be hard to find this Asiatic lily in any other garden.

Bring the beauty of Lilies even to sub-zero areas. Unsurpassed for naturalizing. Plant a quantity; have a mass display of hundreds of blooms highlighting your garden, starting this summer and for years to come.

Great in cut flower arrangements. For people who love dark pink flowers, Ceres is a must-have lily! Another pollen-free Asiatic Lily reaches for the sky at 3 1/2 feet tall. Shipped 12-14cm bulbs.

They were popular parlor plants during the Victorian era, when parlors were on the chilly side. Looking forward to those cold-season blooms, which are supposed to appear on indoor plants between December and March, I started some seeds of Veltheimia bracteata...

Save your space and time indoors for the tomatoes,eggplants and peppers. Cucumbers and squash should only be started indoors no more than two weeks before setting them in the garden.

By thwarting a plant's ability to form seed, you can often coax a second, smaller bloom from a perennial. If you're using the shearing method, it's best to wait until the plant is almost done blooming so you don't sacrifice too many new flowers and buds.You...

They prefer a lightly shaded area, with slightly acidic soil. Although they look very exotic, they don't require anything special to grow. Continue reading to learn more about growing a peony-leaf voodoo lily.leaves (hence, the name) was introduced by...

The plants will benefit having their stems picked to make a pretty bunch of flowers for the vase. Stunning fiery yellow blooms on top of slightly variegated dark green foliage, Alstroemeria 'Summer Breeze' is a perfect plant for floral arrangements.

Young plants will develop large strap shaped leaves like familiar bearded iris, and may bloom in their first summer. This spring those green ribbons have become decidedly iris like young plants.

Rather, you should check them once a week to see if they need to be watered. But, while peace lily plant care is easy, proper growing conditions are still important. Some people will go so far as to wait until their peace lily is starting to droop before...

These are also called raphides, and are needle sharp and shoot out of damaged parts of the plant. The presence of these plants in your home or garden may pose a risk to your pets, especially dogs that like to chew different plants in the landscape.

In the wild, peace lilies are understory plants that grow in moisture rich humus and in partially shaded light. These are generally fungal and may be addressed in a similar manner as Cylindrocladium.

Allow the soil to dry out before watering. Use a pot 4 inches in diameter larger than the bulb. They are not as difficult to grow as their exotic appearance may suggest, however. After the leaf stalk withers, the voodoo lily bulb produces a flower stalk.

If this is the case, repot your peace lily as soon as possible.If you forget to water your peace lily for an extended time, the edges of the leaves may turn yellow. If this happens, water the plant well, then clip off the yellowing foliage.

Remove any chewed leaves from your cat's mouth, and then wash the animal's paws with cool water to remove any irritants.Never try to induce vomiting unless advised by your veterinarian, as you may unintentionally make matters worse.Call your veterinarian...

The plants will benefit having their stems picked to make a pretty bunch of flowers for the vase. Beautiful sunset shades on top of neat dark green bronze foliage, 'Indian Summer' is a perfect plant for floral arrangements.

The lilys' vibrant flower heads show various flower forms, some star shaped others rounded but when grown in a mass grouping, a very powerful display. Growing to almost 3', this rainbow of mixed colors provides vertical accents to nearly every garden...

Cut the stalk off as close to the bottom as you can. Once a stalk has made one flower, it won't make any more – after the flower fades, the stalk will eventually brown and die as well.

Only feed your lily once every few months. If you see your peace lily getting brown tips on its leaves, it's time to review the care you are giving them. For example, if you wait until the lily is deeply wilted instead of just slightly wilted to provide...

The goal is for the plant to sit at the same level it was situated in the old pot; burying the plant too deeply may cause the plant to rot.Slide the peace lily carefully from its current pot.

This could spur a peace lily not blooming to flower just by virtue of more candles of light. They are very popular tropical houseplants. Additionally, site conditions need to be ideal and the plant needs to be fertilized.When do peace lilies flower?

Sufficient light is essential to preventing diseases in Spathiphyllum.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });These lovely plants prefer a humid location.

Either cut back or dilute the concentration.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });When it comes to fertilizing a peace lily, any good quality, water-soluble houseplant fertilizer is fine.

However, repotting a peace lily plant is occasionally necessary, as aisn't able to absorb nutrients and water and may eventually die. It's much better to repot the plant into gradually larger containers.Water the peace lily a day or two before repotting.Fill...

Use gloves, as all parts of the plant can cause contact dermatitis. When growth appears, keep soil lightly moist.Both seeded plants and those started from tubers need to be kept in an area with moderate humidity.

If you have a peace lily with brown tips, try watering it with bottled drinking water.First, flush the plant with lots of bottled water until it runs out of the drainage holes. If you have hard water in your house, it may be accumulating too muchConversely,...

(It doesn't work for a plant that has a single stalk or trunk). Every new plant will have to have some foliage directly attached to roots. But easy to grow houseplants do have a downside – sometimes they just keep growing.