I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully perfuming my
front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into my yard and have
it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.

Thanks!

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

Priscilla Ballou expounded:

I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully perfuming my
front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into my yard and have
it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.

Hey, Priscilla, long time no read!

Yes, you can plant it outside, and pray those damned red lily beetles
don't fine them! (
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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Ann wrote:

Priscilla Ballou expounded:

I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully perfuming my
front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into my yard and have
it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.

Hey, Priscilla, long time no read!

Hey, hey, yourself! Nice to be recognized. ;-)

Yes, you can plant it outside, and pray those damned red lily beetles
don't fine them! (

I've got a whole new front to my property. No more overgrown bushes and
stuff -- five lovely raised beds with river rock in between. Last fall
a friend and I planted a couple hundred bulbs in there, and I think
there are a few lilies, but I can't remember. I'll just have to be
surprised! :-) Things are already shooting up, but darned if I can
tell who they are yet.

When stuff's up I'll find a good spot for Ms. Easter Lily somewhere
there.

Thanks! (Doncha just love that lily smell?)

Priscilla in Roslindale
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

Lilium longiflorum is actually an autumn flowering species native to Taiwan
and would not be cold hardy in Boston without extra protection.

A Google search should turn up something on the species.


"Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message
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I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully perfuming my
front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into my yard and have
it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.

Thanks!

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

Cereus-validus..... wrote:
Lilium longiflorum is actually an autumn flowering species native
to Taiwan and would not be cold hardy in Boston without extra
protection.
A Google search should turn up something on the species.


"Priscilla Ballou" wrote in message
...
I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully
perfuming my front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into
my yard and have it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.

Thanks!

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in
alt.religion.christian.episcopal

http://extension-horticulture.tamu.e...lily/lily.html

Says:
Lilium longiflorum, the Latin name for the Easter Lily, is native to
the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan.
The Easter Lily industry is an American success story. Prior to 1941,
the majority of the Easter Lily bulbs were exported to the United States
from Japan. World War II eliminated the dependence on Japanese-produced
bulbs and commercial bulb production shifted to the U.S. The Japanese
have never been able to regain any of their lost market share due to the
superior quality of the U.S.-grown bulbs.


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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5

Priscilla Ballou expounded:

Thanks! (Doncha just love that lily smell?)

I sure do, my whole house smells loverly right now )
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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"Cereus-validus....." expounded:

Lilium longiflorum is actually an autumn flowering species native to Taiwan
and would not be cold hardy in Boston without extra protection.

Untrue, I've had them in my garden for years. Until the beetles ate
them. Nothing unhardy about them.

--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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Ann wrote:

Untrue, I've had them in my garden for years. Until the beetles ate
them. Nothing unhardy about them.


They're hardy in zone 5 too. But it might be to cold for the beetles
here, cause I've never had that problem.

Jeana

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Ann wrote:

Priscilla Ballou expounded:

Thanks! (Doncha just love that lily smell?)

I sure do, my whole house smells loverly right now )

Ahhhhhh! contented sigh

Priscilla ("How many hours 'til the Vigil?")
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"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

"Jeana" wrote in message
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Ann wrote:

Untrue, I've had them in my garden for years. Until the beetles ate
them. Nothing unhardy about them.


They're hardy in zone 5 too. But it might be to cold for the beetles
here, cause I've never had that problem.

Jeana
And thanks to Pottingshed (Bev) up in Suffolk, Virginina the last year she
visited me, she tucked a bulb of her own prodgeny into my new BBQ pit garden
(before Squire made the fountain) and it flowers in late May, early
June......not Easter.........but my Blood Lilies and Korean Crinum that Zhan
gave me (the Crinum, not the Blood Lily) are blooming right now, as is the
"Cherokee Pipe" plant, a Caladiva Kalanchole that is red, and I couldn't
resist a Stargazer which has it's last two blossoms perfuming my nook as I
write. And we can't forget the small pot of Campanula I just HAD to
have............................
madgardener

"Ann" wrote in message
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Priscilla Ballou expounded:

I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully perfuming my
front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into my yard and have
it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.

Hey, Priscilla, long time no read!

Yes, you can plant it outside, and pray those damned red lily beetles
don't fine them! (

AYE that IS the problem in New England, now.... those damned red-lily
beetles have become a worse scourge for me than the Japanese Beetles or the
Rose Chafers.

Sue
Western Maine



Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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"sue and dave" wrote:
"Ann" wrote in message
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Priscilla Ballou expounded:
I bought a supermarket Easter Lily, which is delightfully perfuming my
front room now. Will I be able to transplant it into my yard and have
it survive? I live in Boston, MA, zone 6, USA.
Yes, you can plant it outside, and pray those damned red lily beetles
don't fine them! (

AYE that IS the problem in New England, now.... those damned red-lily
beetles have become a worse scourge for me than the Japanese Beetles or the
Rose Chafers.

Oh, dear. I'm afraid I'll be learning about them this year, since I'm
quite sure that some of what I put in my new raised beds was lilies. :-(

Priscilla
--
"You can't welcome someone into a body of Christ and then say only
certain rooms are open." -- dancertm in alt.religion.christian.episcopal

"sue and dave" expounded:

AYE that IS the problem in New England, now.... those damned red-lily
beetles have become a worse scourge for me than the Japanese Beetles or the
Rose Chafers.

Sue
Western Maine

Up there too, Sue? We've got a house in southwestern Maine, I hadn't
tried lilies there yet. It's in the middle of a pine barren, maybe
the little bastiges won't find them??!?
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
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"sue and dave" expounded:

AYE that IS the problem in New England, now.... those damned red-lily
beetles have become a worse scourge for me than the Japanese Beetles or
the
Rose Chafers.

Sue
Western Maine

Up there too, Sue? We've got a house in southwestern Maine, I hadn't
tried lilies there yet. It's in the middle of a pine barren, maybe
the little bastiges won't find them??!?
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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Ann, sorry to say, yes the little bastiges are here in abundance, and I'm
in West Bethel.

Sue

So far my experiences with planting "Easter Lilies" in the garden have
been good ones. They do require a deep mulching the first couple of
winters, but after that they seem to do very well in my Zone 5a
gardens.

CV is, therefore partially correct, since they do need to be deeply
mulched and perhaps planted a bit deeper than the Asiatic, Orientals
and others that are more commonly grown in our gardens.

Another Lily you will probably find as a blooming pot plant this time
of year are the LA Hybrids (Longifolium X Asiatic ) They also should
be mulched the first winter or so, but they make a lovely addition to
the garden. I find it is better to keep them growing in the pots they
came in until they have gone dormant and then plant them in the garden.
That way it is much easier to plant them deeper than you do other
Liliums. Some will even come into growth after a couple of weeks and
present you with a fall bloom or two. Perfect drainage is a must for
these.


Hemma