Easter Lily returns

[Carol Dee]

I planted the Easter Lily I received for Easter of 2013 out in the front bed with some other lilies and promptly forgot it. All the other lilies are done blooming and up came this surprise. And it really is a surprise after the LONG COLD winter we had.

 

[baymule]

How pretty! and what a nice surprise! They are called Easter Lilies, but they never bloom at Easter.....

 

[Carol Dee]

How pretty! and what a nice surprise! They are called Easter Lilies, but they never bloom at Easter.....

So it would seem!

 

[Jared77]

Hard to argue with a beautiful surprise like that.

Easter Sunday service is one of my favorites because you walk into the sanctuary and it smells SOOO good! The alter, rails, and the steps are always lined with Easter lilies in bloom donated by many members of the congregation and it's such a great added sensory experience to the service. It's one of the services I loved even as a kid.

I hope it continues to do well for you.

 

[Carol Dee]

Hard to argue with a beautiful surprise like that.

Easter Sunday service is one of my favorites because you walk into the sanctuary and it smells SOOO good! The alter, rails, and the steps are always lined with Easter lilies in bloom donated by many members of the congregation and it's such a great added sensory experience to the service. It's one of the services I loved even as a kid.

I hope it continues to do well for you.

Our church does the same and if you donated towards the lilies you can take one home after Easter. You are right it is a heavenly scent.

 

[canesisters]

Carol those are SO PRETTY!

I had NO IDEA that they could grow 'in the yard' until I brought one home from church one year. Now, every year I gather up the 'left over' lilies at church - you know, the ones that didn't get taken home and are slowly shriveling up in a corner of the kitchen several weeks after Easter. I take them home and plant them in the iris bed. Every year they multiply!! I'm soon going to have to decide if it's an iris bed or a lily bed and move the others.

.... or expand the bed....
.....hummmmm

 

[Carol Dee]

Carol those are SO PRETTY!

I had NO IDEA that they could grow 'in the yard' until I brought one home from church one year. Now, every year I gather up the 'left over' lilies at church - you know, the ones that didn't get taken home and are slowly shriveling up in a corner of the kitchen several weeks after Easter. I take them home and plant them in the iris bed. Every year they multiply!! I'm soon going to have to decide if it's an iris bed or a lily bed and move the others.

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.... or expand the bed....
.....hummmmm

I vote for a bigger flower bed. My bed also has iris, which are done blooming before the lilies start.

 

[Nyboy]

I think it looks much happier in your garden then in a pot

 

[canesisters]

Hey @Carol Dee (and anyone else) - while we're on the subject, when is it ok to trim back the ragedy iris leaves? And how drastic can I go? I was going ot take a picture of the Easter Lily show but the iris' looked so bad I passed.

 

[Carol Dee]

@canesisters I do not think I ever have trimmed the iris leaves back. I just cut off the spent stems. I would think it would be o.k. to cut them back at an angle several inches above ground. Like you do when you transplant them.