When To Cut Back Perennials In the crunch of fall chores and yard cleanup, you’ll have to carve out some time to tend to your ...
AMES, Iowa – Lilies make an excellent addition to a spring and summer garden landscape. However, fall is the right time to plant, dig and divide lilies for optimal performance in spring. Iowa State ...
The large, showy blooms of lilies add colorful elegance to the midsummer yard and garden, and fall is the best time to plant them. Grown from bulbs, lilies are perennial flowers that will return year ...
This was a glorious summer for lilies in my garden, and over much too soon. I’ve already snipped off the towering candelabra-like stems that were loaded with blooms – tigers, Turk’s Caps, trumpets, ...
As we slide into the fall gardening season, a period of the year where late-season flowering plants are not as common, I find delight in focusing on the return of certain autumn favorites. Near the ...
A: Oxblood lilies (Rhodophiala bifida) are no-care, heirloom bulbs that flower each September. Native to Argentina, oxblood lilies were introduced to Central Texas by German colonist Heinrich ...
My former garden included a fall bloomer I’ve been trying to locate ever since. It’s called toad lily, which blooms now through October. Toad lily’s growth habit is arching and graceful, much like a ...
Q. My surprise lilies are blooming in my wooded landscape. When can I move them safely to other areas? A. Surprise lilies are native to China, Japan and Korea but have naturalized in many areas of the ...
How’s your flower knowledge? Do you know the difference between a lily and a daylily, and can you recognize which is which in a flower garden? It might sound like splitting lily hairs, but it’s ...