Asiatic lily

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By some miracle I've managed to keep one alive for 2 months now (not green fingered), although the flowers are shedding.

I would love to see it bloom again next year.

Any tips for soil or nourishing food for it? It's still in the soil bed it arrived in. Tia!

I have mine in a sheltered, south facing planter, I put down fresh compost and mulch in late winter and a weekly diluted liquid feed all summer. I’m not very green thumbed so the above could be wrong and my asiatic Lily is surviving in spite of my actions.

Oh that's brilliant @SugarandSpiceandAllThingsNaice - have the flowers wilted on yours as well? The stems look quite healthy and glossy green on mine, flowers are orange.

What colours are yours? They're so pretty.

I'll look into liquid feed thank you 🤞

Mine are blood red. The flowers dropped a few weeks ago, but the three I have are over two years old - have bloomed two summers in a row and died back one winter.

So once all the flowers have finished, you feed them potassium based plant food (tomato food fits the bill here) once a week for six weeks. Then cut the stems right down to soil level to stop them seeding. This means that all of the energy goes back into the bulb for next year and you should get them blooming again. Don't expect them to have the same sized flowers again unless you can bring them on in a greenhouse.

Thank you! I was shocked mine came back, it’s nice to know exactly what they need. Thank you too op for starting the thread.