Re: LILIES: Oriental
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] LILIES: Oriental
- From: C* P*
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:52:19 EDT
In a message dated 4/1/01 11:51:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cidjohnson323@MEDIAONE.NET writes:
<<
That may have been part of it, but I think some disease(s) was also the
problem??
Have you had any problem with that? >>
Disease is a problem is you plant them where lilies have grown before. Also
the orientals are of different biological makeup. You receive them at peak
size for a splendid display of bloom. The following year the bulb divides
into many small bulbs and may take some years to attain that large blooming
size again.
One advice given is to plant in the fall and plant very deeply. I seem to
remember this information from a lecture on lilies that I attended. If you
order from a catalog such as B & D, you get more cultural information on each
cultivar and may save yourself some grief.
There is one Oriental hybrid named Black Beauty that is around again and this
one seems to defy all negatives and live forever.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
