Save Your Easter Lily-Pot Lily Planting

Save your Easter lily with a few pot lily planting tips and enjoy it for many seasons to come. Success for the pot lily isn’t guaranteed depending on soil and climate but the beautiful white lily is certainly worth the effort.

Wait for the last bloom on the pot lily plant to wither before planting outside.

Prepare a well drained garden bed in a sunny locatation with rich soil. Use a well drained planting mix. Lilies required good drainage and that drainage is the key to success for lilies. If you need to, raise the garden bed by adding soil to the top of the bed in order to get better drainage.

The Easter lily bulbs should be planted 3 inches below ground level and mound up an additional 3 inches of topsoil over the bulb. Plant bulbs 12 to 18 incles apart. The hole should be wide enough so that the roots can be placed in spread out and down. Work the soil in and around the bulbs and roots being sure not to leave air pockets. Water immediately and thoroughly after planting.

When the original plants begin to die back, cut the stems back to the soil surface. New growth will soon appear. Greenhouse force bloom lilies will bloom naturally in the summer. You may even get a second bloom later in the summer.

Easter lilies like their roots in the shade and their heads in the sun.

Save your Easter lily for the memory of the season and enjoy their beautiful trumpet-shaped flowers. Save your Easter lily for the wonderful fragrance too. Be sure to plant where you’ll be able to catch the waft of their scent!