Need Advice: New growth emerging....

...on several of my daylilies that wintered in pots with all their last year's foliage.

My first ever daylilies were grown in containers in full Texas sun and heat and I left them to over winter exactly where they were. We have an average final frost of 4/15. There is new growth about 1" high on several. Can I trim off the dead stuff now or should I leave it as protection from the weather another month or so? ....if so, should I leave the new growth or cut it back as well?

Thanks everyone....daylilies are terrific, aren't they? Beautiful and seemingly tough as nails.

I'd probably leave things alone untill mid march, but then I'd remove the old dead stuff and leave the new growth alone. You might want to ask over in the Hemerocallis forum, they are the daylily experts, eventho, there are probably several that frequent this forum too and grow lilies. :) I personally find that you have to try really hard to kill a daylily where you are. :)

Now, can we interest you in some lily lilies? :) Some Asiatics, Orientals, OT's, LA's etc? :) They are just as beautiful as daylilies and bloom longer. :)

Come, come to the dark side, forget about those daylilies and come play with us! :)

Diann

Thanks Diann,

I meant this post for the daylily forum but goofed it up somehow with my jumping around.
I have wanted to try some others just due to the wonderful pics I see in those all too tempting catalogs. Certainly didn't know they bloomed longer....actually thought they bloomed once and not again until next season. I'll buy one or two and see how it goes, I currently have nothing I'll part with for trades.

Linda

Well, a daylily bloom will last a day, thus the name daylily. A Lily (Lilium) bloom will last several days. :)

Check out Buggycrazy, Faraway Flower, The Lily Garden to name a few. You'll get just as addicted to lilies as we are. :)

Diann

Well, we had lots of unusually warm weather hear in GA so all of my potted actual LILY bulbs started poking their green fluffy heads through! So now that we are back to Feb. weather, I've had to bring them into the sunroom and I guess I'll have lots of lilies in March instead of June! That's 3 months too early!

I guess I can look at it as a good thing since Easter is in March this year and they will be very pretty decorations for the house. :-)

Good thing I bought lots more in the co-ops so I'll still have some in the yard in June and July. :-)



This message was edited Feb 22, 2009 12:14 PM

I've been looking into Lilies for a couple of days and don't think I can provide for them correctly. Too bad. Maybe it'll work in a few years.

Ok, I probably should know this, because there were enough songs written about it, but where in Texas is Lubbock? Panhandle, central, west, east, coast? You are zone 7a, I'd think you would be able to grow lilies... At least Asiatics...

Lubbock Texas is located in the Panhandle and is in zone 7a. Since I don't know much about Lilies.....I have grown lycoris radiata until the neighbor's dog dug them all up. He's a pretty big fella and didn't seem to get sick (don't really know if they were eaten).
None the less, being dried out and wounded they didn't seem to have a chance when I replanted them. None came up the next year and these had bloomed the last two late summers and their parent plants had been her 10+ years, originally brought from Japan.

Are those Asiatic?

I think lycoris is closer to an amaryllis than a true lily. If you go to Faraway Flowers or Buggycrazy's web sites you'll see true lilies These are a few of my lilies:

Sunshines2day, I'm only half a zone away and in crappy clay soil, but I've had success with lilies. Surely you can have some success too. What makes you think that you would have a tough time, other than the dog? LOL

Our member Steve in Ft. Worth who grows lot of lilies and they do very well for him, especially OT's, if I remember correctly. Give it a go ~ you won't be sorry. :)

I just thought Lilies needed protection from fierce wind, no humidity, and 100 degree heat. I will look into this more and likely try one or two. You folks have me almost convinced. Any suggestion on some beginner ones to try? I'll do little reasearch this week and would want to try growing in pots since it's likely I'll be moving in the next few years.

Does it count if I have a cat named Lily?

I'll start with requirements of the different types or families or whatever you call them (Asiatics, Orientals, OT's, LA's )

I must admit....always been a fan of the "dark side".

Good for you!! We will want progress reports from you and pictures later this spring! ;)

sunshines,
Here are a few of the lilies I have grown, that are EASY to please and give a big show:

Orange Tiger Lilies
Casa Blanca Oriental lilies
American Spirit is some kind of hybrid trumpet ?
Robina another kind of hybrid trumpet
Showboat is a LA (asiatic) hybrid
Stargazer Oriental lilies
Muscadet Oriental lilies

Once you have lilies, they will multiply for you and you will be able to transplant the offspring or give to friends.

Don't give up on the lycoris. They don't like to be moved and often will just sit for a year or too before they do anything. My neighbour gave me 2 whole buckets of them. Honest 2 buckets!!!! She had cleared out a bed and had them sitting in her garage. My husband was making nasty remarks till I told him if I'd bought them they would be $6 a piece minimum. He got out and helped me plant them. Anyway, they didn't do anything for 2 years then whamm this fall the whole bed was filled with them and the dumb things had multiplied! I had 2 and 3 stalks of flowers from each bulb coming up. Don't be discouraged.

You folks are somewhat to blame for me buying nearly 60 lily bubs from that recent co-op. This post is pretty old but I had to look it up so I know who to blame for my soon to be aching body.

Yes! Yes! She made it to the dark side! Hooray!! *snicker*

Welcome:

thanks

Welcome to the Addiction!! :)

Sunshines, I grow lots of them as Moby stated (thanks for the plug Moby!!) except Orientals of which I only have a few. Most lilies bloom before the 100 degree stuff hits so I think you will be fine. I have had great success with OT's, LO's, LA's, Trumpets, and Asiatics. Your climate is somewhat drier than mine and probably more wind too but lilies are tough - just put them in protected spot and afternoon shade if you have it. I am in the NW burbs of Dallas/Ft Worth.

Hey Diann you and I had the same idea with the drumstick allium and lilies!!! This is mid-June 2009 for your reference; most of mine are finished by end of June or early July.

Steve,

Your pic is amazing. Although I've always admired Lilies, I never knew they could grow in my area....just assumed they were sensitive and unforgiving.

I posted my question a year ago just by accident on this forum about some daylilies, now I'm exploring something new. I'll likely be asking questions from you folks when I'm uncertain or just plain worried.

I started planting 2 to 3 in 10 gallon pots with large drainage holes with no fertilizer and no stakes. They will get early morning sun for 2 to 3 hours then dappled then about 3 to 4 hours of direct Texas sun and than dappled again in the evenings. If I need to the pots can be moved. The wind will be fierce at times and those 100 degrees days aren't too far away. Will I be able to trust what the foliage tells me about the pots needing to move to more shelter or if the need more water?

Hey... great minds!

Hey I have Drumsticks on my wish list for this fall order. Good to see a full plant .
Pix are great.

Not sure that I'd trust foliage to droop as a need for water. It's better to keep lilies on the dry side as they can rot. Stick your finger well in to the soil and if it's moist, then that's good enough.

Soils, if you can I'd just put them straight in the ground and let mother nature guide you along.
Stevie, don't you just love the drumstick alliums? They are great Bumble Bee magnets for me. :) Mary Mobilina, I always knew you had a great mind! :) LOL

Hey, I've got drumsticks with my lilies too. Great picture, Moby!

Hey Laura, where have you been? :)

Gorgeous combo in your pix Moby! Love it!

STOOOOOP with the Drumsticks. I will plant some this fall. Thats a year before I see tall alliums in my garden. I want the globe ones for the Jap.Iris too and Lilies. These are the ones that bloom in June and July.

Was checking yesterday and I have a couple of asiatics starting to get buds all ready!

Isnt it great?

Oh yeah!!

it will be june before mine bloom.

I've got asiatics and orientals and more all growing, but not a sign of a bud yet. The container lilies were actually drooping a bit so I watered them, and they perked up. The container lilies are in VERY large (35 gallon) containers and very well drained. They can live through just about anything but wet feet.

Not everything in containers does as well as in the ground, but lilies and tulips did well for me. Fritillaria, crocus and hyacinth did better in the garden. I layered those bulbs but good, but since we had a couple of hot weeks in March/April, those lilies just shot through the soil top. And so did the red lily beetle. He's licking his chops on my fritillaria.

I DO love the drumstick alliums, Diann - in fact I missed buying new ones last fall and have to make sure I include more in my order this fall. Mine have leaves coming up and hopefully they'll bloom again this year.

Steve - do you have a favorite site for the alliums?

I will plant some with JI jokasta and Purple Lance Astilbe, also Picote Princess if it lives.

Allium bloom here from the start of the tall bearded irises and lupines through the time of the Japanese irises.

Which Salvia is that Pirl?