To: Aliska
Resurrection lilies, are yours the pink ones or the pink-lavender-sky-blue-tipped ones? I planted the latter, the leaves come up every spring, but I never get the flowers. I am one zone too far north for them for one thing. If I mulched them more heavily and faithfully watered what's left, they might actually do their thing.
I am in SW Ohio, and these flowers flourish here. They have multiplied without any special care. A few years ago I dug up many dozens of them and replanted them, and after one year of no flowers, they are now coming back stronger every season.
90 posted on
08/19/2011 8:46:23 PM PDT by
Nepeta
To: Nepeta
The pink ones are hardy here and seem to multiply. Someone further south in IL had the blue-tipped ones all over his yard, so once they establish, the bulbs divide and can be transplanted. I've not seen any more blue-tipped ones here. One or two zones can make a huge difference. It sounds like you're in 6a or 6b.
If it weren't for more heat days in summer (and this has been a bad one here but 90's rather than over 100 for days on end) I'd envy you because there are so many kinds of flowers, trees, and shrubs you can grow that we can't unless we treat them as annuals or do something extraordinary to save them in the winter.
Enjoy your good fortune and flowers.
92 posted on
08/19/2011 9:46:25 PM PDT by
Aliska
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