On Apr 27, 1:55*pm, "Val" wrote:
I was given a beautiful huge, white lily, 11 blossoms, for Easter. It's now
done blooming and I'm going to plant it outside. The question is.....I'll
need to plant it deeper than the depth of the pot it's in. Do I just lift it
out of the pot and plunk it in the hole or do I remove the leaves that would
be buried at that depth or just leave it in the pot until it completely dies
back, trim the stalks and plant it then.

I used to plant these things out in the garden all the time with great
success many years ago but I can't remember how I did it.

Val

plant it two inches deeper than the pot. feet in the shade and head
in the sun, don't cut the bulk of the stems off, just where the
blossoms have dropped their petals. the leaves are feeding the bulb.
Come fall, a little time release bulb food will be fine, come next
year it WON'T bloom on Easter, it will come up and bloom around the
mid part of June. They only bloom on Easter because they're forced in
greenhouses. But they are perennial for most of us in zone 5 and up.
I've grown them successfully for years now outside.

madgardener, zone 7a, Sunset zone 36