This lily has a pretty flower but quite small and doesn't make much of an impact. Is it possible to pinch them back and make them bush out?
Blackberry lily
as far as I know no Lilies can be pinched back as they have a single stem per bulb which flowers. Thats assuming you are refering to a true Lily
The only thing you can do with these little beauties is to plant tons for any kind of show, because Like Mark says they can't be cut back to bush out.
hmmmmmmmm, to keep or not to keep. I don't have much gardening space so I need the most bang for the buck. This may be one of those things that shows up, unannounced at the community center and people standing around asking, "where did that come from?" Yes, I am the mystery gardener at the community center.
Could someone what is a Blackberry Lily?
This one?
http://plantsdatabase.com/go/41/
so it's actually an Iris not a Lily!?
Right, Blackberry Lily is actually Belamcanda chinensis (possibly Belamcanda flava/flabellata), a member of the Iris Family. There is still no way of pinching them back, one would be removing the flowers from the scape. As Agapanthus suggests, plant plenty of them! They really take little room, so could be incorporated into a sunny, well-drained border, where the orchid-like sprays of blooms would make a nice display against some background foliage. There are some new Pardancanda introductions which are dwarf form and hold their flowers closer to the foliage. (Pardancanda being a similar plant available in a wider range of colors.)
Woodspirit1, as Pardancanda says the plants can easily be tucked in with others and not take up much room at all. And in fall and winter when many other plants have nothing to offer the 'blackberry' seeds are so pretty. I vote to keep it!
Pardancanda, I'll just bet I'd like the dwarf ones better. Where can I get some? But I am going to keep these and see if they multiply enough to make a decent showing. I think I will stake them together next spring so that the blooms will cluster together and show off a little more....
Hate to admit, but I forget where I saw the new dwarf ones... it might have been Bluebird nursery, or somesuch. Might have been wholesalers, so I didn't pay attention. I'll so a search. And yes, sometimes they really need staking, or they can be floppy. They say it is more common in good soil (floppiness).
I really like them, although small, because they are so pretty, and then the "berries" are cool! Mine keep having babies, so I'm getting a nice patch, but they ARE for looking at up close, not as a large patch of color from a distance.
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