Lilies: Help with Sparkling Burgundy Pineapple Lily, 0 by sterhill

sterhill wrote:
And shade - these don't like too much shade. I have the burgundy one - for about 4 years - and I find it comes up almost black, turns a deep purple and by the end of the summer it is green with some purple streaking. It does this every year.

You can propagate these by leaf cuttings. Take one of the long leaves, cut it into 2" long pieces and insert the 'downward' cut ends into small pots. It took me a long time - 6 months? - to get babies. I saw the fellow from Plant Delights on a tv show saying this was the best way to propagate and get the 'true' color. They had tried seeds and even tried cloning and not gotten good results. He said they 'discovered' the leaf cuttings and it worked so I thought I'd give it a try.

see the tiny little bud at the base of the leaf on the left?

These babies are more green because they've been under shop lights in the laundry room - no real sun.