Beginner Gardening: Peace Lily, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Hello Rose, Welcome!

Here is the link to Plant Files for Peace Lily: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/adv_search.php?searcher[com...

There are a few listed but I'm sure they all require the same type of care and conditions for good growth. I have grown Peace Lily's over the years and find they like bright light but no direct sunlight which will burn the foliage. I also on occasion use a bloom booster fertilizer (high middle number) to encourage blooms. The one I use is an orchid fertilizer 11-35-15.

I have one of the variegated foliage Peace Lily's and it was really beautiful for many years but about a year ago began to look pretty pitiful with the foliage dying. I realized it was getting too much sunlight because it was in an area on the front porch that had been shaded by large trees that came down in the hurricanes of 2004. I moved the container to a shady corner of the back yard and chopped it back down to the soil line. It got watered twice a week when the irrigation system was on, or when it rained. I didn't know if it would survive but I noticed last week that it has re-sprouted quite a bit. It was in an area covered over by other plants so there doesn't seem to be as much variegation in the leaves. I have moved it onto the deck and will probably repot it into fresh soil and place it in brighter light, no direct sun but just a bright shady location to see if the heavy variegation will return to the foliage.