Lilies: OMG, I may have messed up bad w/ my lilies!, 1 by SteveIndy

SteveIndy wrote:
Hi velnita, thanks! Well, when I planted them they weren't so close together :-) In the second picture they're not as close as they look due to the angle of the picture. I am not sure how I'll move them yet though if they encroach too much and in fact have some problems with peonies and daffodils being too close in another bed due to my goofy and careless planting and I actually do have peonies in a couple beds with lilies growing up through them. So what will I do?? I don't know!! LOL Maybe get the soil nice and wet this fall and tunnel down under the peony and hopefully disturb it as little as possible. I finally have some decent buds as we are three years at this house and I don't want to start over on the peonies! The lilies are easy to start once I find them. BTW thanks for the great suggestion on the peony forum on Reath's - wow, I have never seen anyone offer 6-10 eye plants! You're right though, website need work and pictures/descriptions are lacking for most plants. I will need more beds as I have no place to plant more right now!

Thanks Neal! I posted them on the Iris forum because there seems to be little attention paid to D. Irises and they're really underutilized bulbs. Mine have come back well every year and even at my old place I planted lots of them - they bloom in late March through early April reliaby for me. I've read they're good in zones 6-9 though even on the Iris thread several people in zone 6 like you indicated trouble with them and poor return. They seem to do fine for me here. Soil remains dry and well drained where they're planted, though due to the volume of stuff you grow I know you know what you're doing and doubt that must be the issue, so it must be temperatures.

Here's a clump of my LA's among a peony that recently bloomed. Both the peony and lilies were planted in 2006. It seems to be OK here as this peony blooms before the lilies get any height, but again too close and tight. It wasn't when I planted, though! LOL