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Do Lillies die back?

Kathleen:
	Lilies are from the genus Lilium and they are bulbs.  You don't
want to cut back the foliage (even if it is browning and dying, which it
sometimes does naturally) because the foliage is needed to absorb sun
and nutrients to build up the bulb for next year.  Even when you are
cutting a blooming lily for a vase indoors, it's better for the bulb if
you don't cut very much more stem and foliage than you have to for your
floral arrangement requirements.
	Daylilies are from the genus Hemerocallis and they are NOT
bulbs.  However, it is probably not a good idea to remove their foliage
either because they are perennials and their leaves keep growing, to
some extent, throughout the fall.

Hope this helps,
Susan

Susan Campanini
in east central Illinois
zone 5b, min temp -15F?
e-mail:  campanin@uiuc.edu


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