Hi! Please read my reply on the "Calla/Easter Lily" topic that Trinity began. I need help with my Easter Lily, and I am sure Trinity still does, too....Someone, please help.
I live in Texas, where it can get to 110 degrees, or more. So, I really need to know where to put my plant. I think it's way too
hot outside for it....
Please help.

*Felicity2

felicity2 -

Check Lydia's link that she posted
in Trinity's thread.

It's very informative.

Felicity;

Plant this one in shade - Preferably early morning OR late afternoon (real late) full sun-light.

If you have a tree that sheds it's leaves in fall, planting your lilly in it's shade would be great - this would give it warmth of the sun during winter, and the cool of shade during the summer.

Lilies are tubers/bulbs - they propagate (multiply) through the roots. After a full year, you should be able to dig up the bulb (in mid-fall) and have pups, or tiny bulbs/tubers attached. These can be planted in increasingly brighter areas.

120 degrees is a bit much for plants - if that is heat without water.

If your water laws allow you to water every day, then do so in that area - preferably at night.

If your water laws do not allow you to water, you can fix this issue by using a gallon milk container. "???" you say?

Take a milk container, cut the top off, say below the handle, leaving you with a square box. Bury this, leaving about 1 inch above ground, next to the plant. Then take an old sock (tube socks are wonderful for this) bury one end (say the toe) next to the base of the plant, and drop the rest in the milk container.

Fill the milk container with water. Wet the sock. What will happen is that the sock will wick water up from the 'well' (milk container) and will irrigate the plant.

I also use this technique to water indoor plants for weeks at a time (when on vacation).

cheers

David

Hi, David. That was a very helpful and very interesting reply. Thank you! I think that information will help me out more.

*Felicity2