Bulbs: Calla Lily blooming?, 1 by cathy166

cathy166 wrote:
My experience with bulbs: the bigger the container, the happier they are. However, I tend to crowd the containers. I put bulbs into inexpensive window boxes and mix lilies with callas, but I'm sure they would look lovely with just callas. Lilies always sprout much earlier than the callas. The Wmart window boxes come with a removable bottom that you need to force off with your fingers and a butter knife or screwdriver or a friend. Otherwise they cannot drain property and will promptly rot after one season. We use the window boxes with the bottom on for wetlands type plants or in the house. I think they were about $8 or so, and you can easily get five bulbs in them.

Here's the window box. The grey piece next to it is the bottom we pried off. (Now I automatically take off the bottoms.)