my favorite pot....
my favorite pot....
What a happy pot! I'm not the greatest at ID'g plants... what is in it?
I'm not very good either at ID, but I wanna guess, ok?
Salvia, portulacca 2 plants, daylily and hoya vine?
Someone who knows for sure, please post. :^)
Molly
Lavendar, daylily, portulaca, and blue pea vine.
"eyes"
I'm going with...
angelonia, vinca vine, asiatic lily and portulaca
Exactly ecobioangie!!! I also have a question about the lilly.
What do I do after the blooms are gone? Will these plants bloom again. I have never had lillys before.
I keep lilies in pots and they thrive...in fact, I've got 2 pots that will need dividing this year.
This is Diablo, and this picture is the second year for them. They are up,thick and starting to form buds this year and twice as thick.
Melody -- I am in Illinois -- will the lilies overwinter in pots in my garage? What do you think -- I have had some success with mums ??
Hmmm...Naperville is right near Chicago,isn't it? Idon't know.
I would think as long as they didn't dry completely out that they possibly could overwinter in your garage....all you can do is try.
yul,
i have a large 17" diameter planter, made of that foam stuff,looks like terra cottal anyways i planted lollipop asiatics into it last year. it got left out over the winter and there are over a dozen lilies (from 3) that are coming up in the pot. i doin't know if you remember, but our temps got down to -30 to -60F for over a weeks time. other bulbettes i left in peat moss in plastic baggies, in the garage, overwintered with no problem. they are now in pots showing there first leaf. so i would say yes, no problem in your garage. asiatics are really tough.
you'll have to deadhead the flowers. making sure you get off the "bump" below the flower. this is were the seeds are produced. you'll want to give it some bulb food now. you'll allow it to die back naturally, just like a tulip or daffodil. after it dies back, and perhaps at the end of the season when the others have passed, you can either leave them as is, or scrounge around and look for the little bulbettes. you can then plant them into the ground or another pot and allow them to mature, i'm just starting to do this, but i've read 2-3 years until bloom, depending on soil, sun etc,...
good luck and enjoy that beautiful container.,
Hi all, just got "hooked" on lillies last season-so pleased with them that this year I went a "bit" overboard and ordered all kinds, color, heights, etc.
what I need to know is some sort of guideline for # of 14/16cm bulbs per different sized pots. thanks for any and all help. jeani4
hi jeanni,
welcome to the club. :-) i started planting lilies into containers last year and started asking this same question. :-) some depends on if you want to leave them in there for a few years, or if you plan on replanting them out into the fall. i found, you can put more into a pot if you are going to plant them out. the other thing i wanted to do, was plant them in containers, so i could bring them inside, without cutting them and also so i could place them about different areas of the garden, that might need a bit of color, while they were in bloom. i would then move them off to a part shade or shade area after bloom, to gather energy into the bulb.
depth is important. you need a minimum of 2-3" below the bulb, place the bulb and then a minimum of 4-6" above the bulb. the more above the better, especially if your lilies are tall. i used a combination of potting soil and play sand (i purchased at home depot or lowe's). i also used some of that water absorbent gel crystals. i found they worked well. they didn't interfere with the good drainage you needed for the bulbs, but they allowed the pots to stay moist in the heat of the summer, without being out there constantly watering them. 3 bulbs in this size container was perfect, except for bringing them indoors. i brought my tom pounce inside and i was soooooo very gorgeous with the blooms bursting open, but the smell, although wonderful outdoors, was very overpowering indoors, so out they went again. this year, i'll be putting 1 into a gallon pot for indoors. ;-)
i also put 10 asiatic 'tinos' into a large terra cotta pot and 20 mixed asiatics 'lollipop', 'cote d'azure' and '?' into a very large faux stone pot. i would guesstimate this pots sides were 18" wide and tall. these bulbs were very close in both. but that is the look i wanted and it came out well.
this spring, we will find out how they all overwintered in my garage. my first container of asiatic lollipop' i left outdoors and last spring i had only small bubils sprouting. so i nursed them along, and hopefully they will be growing stalks this spring and summer.
i put the large pots onto some metal coasters for ease in moving about the driveway, but found they worked well keeping the stalks growing straight, by rotating the containers, rather than all leaning towards the sun.
i will be interessted in hearing how your lily container gardening goes too. please let me know.
good luck and i'm sure you will enjoy the beauty.
debi z and little franklin my pekingese gardening buddy and fellow lily lover.
picture of oriental 'tom pounce' 3 bulbs in 2 gallon container
jeanni,
this picture show the 2 large containers with asiatic 'tinos' in one and the other square one has a mixture of 3 different bulbs. i put some viola's into the square pot and they loved living there.
