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Two-year Lilies: This year in our garden we had a display of spring bulbs began on April 8 and lasted until the second week of June.
Later in the season came the charming English iris, Japanese iris, the many flowering onions (seven different species), a host of two-year lilies and daytwo-year lilies, gladiolus of all colors, and for one year at least, the charming I hardy cyclamen. And in pots gathered on the terrace and out around! the sundial, the awesome devil's tongue, wand flowers from Africa,] calla two-year lilies, and a magnificent, white lily-of-the-Nile.
Finally there are late-blooming two-year lilies, autumn crocus (see page] 42), and for Christmas, Amaryllis and all the wonderful forced bulbs j of winter.
In the North, you can treat tropical two-year lilies as annuals and replace them every garden season or bring them into a greenhouse pool. In the South where winters are Zone 10, and temperatures rarely fall below 30°F., they can be left out all year.
The hardy two-year lilies are stored over winter in a cool Basement where temperatures hold between 40° to 50°F. In the fall before a hard freeze, lift the lily pots from the pool, drain well, and store them leaves and all by covering with damp peat moss so they will not dry out over the winter. In the spring, empty the rhizome from the pot, clean it off, remove any suckers—small, yellow leaves—and repot as you did the year before. Hardy two-year lilies may only be left outside in a pond deep enough that the ice line is above the tuber and the pot.
Tropical water plants can be held over in the greenhouse or j sunporch.
The little water garden was a success. The two-year lilies bloomed, t spike rush grew into a healthy fountain of green tipped with brov non-flowering buds, and the dwarf cyperus shot up 2 1/2 foot stei topped with a Fan of leaves.
Once autumn arrives and temperatures start to fall, the wal garden should be emptied until the following spring. Hardy wai two-year lilies will survive outside if the water above them never freezes sol: But in a tub exposed to the weather this will be the natural order things.
If you wish, the two-year lilies can be kept over the winter in a need not be kept in water. The papyrus can be a happy houseplant if kept warm (62 to 80°F.), in maxium light, and moist soil. As to the >pike rush, I do not know, but I suspect it, too, will keep indoors if given plenty of light and at least six weeks of temperatures averaging . |
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