We are adding a new porch on our house and I have to move my lillies. I really don't want to replant them until we get the porch finished. Can I keep them over until spring? I live in the midwest. Thanks,
Hobby
2006-09-20 09:26:09 · 6 answers · asked by hobbyhorse25 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You can pot them up but you still need to put them into the ground somewhere to protect the roots. Dig a trench in another place (maybe along a fenceline...out of the way) and set the potted daylilies in the trench. Fill it in with dirt and they should be fine until next spring. Then just dig up the pots and replant.
2006-09-20 09:43:05 · answer #1 · answered by redneckgardendiva 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is from Fl and Tn knowledge. All bulbs bloom from the nutrients stored from the last growing season. So, where you could certainly dig them and place them in a box of sawdust or layered w/ newspaper to keep them dry, and stored in the basement or other cool,dry place, when you plant in the spring they SHOULD bloom. Perhaps a bit later than your neighbors but we tend to dig and divide in the fall and replant in the spring. I know it's not what the books say,but my grandmother couldn't read so she didn't know any better. I'm guessing her daylillies couldn't read either.
2006-09-20 10:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by surftele 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you can not hold them over and plant them in the spring.If you pot them up you would have to winter protect them. it would be easier to just dig them up replant them then when your porch is finished plant them in there permanent place. Daylilys are tough plants they can take dividing and moving very easily. Its the cold temps that would kill them if they where held over in pots.
2006-09-20 12:39:06 · answer #3 · answered by cin_ann_43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even tho my sister-in-law has a huge daylily garden we live in North Carolina so I do not know what to tell you on that however I did find a link to a site that specializes in cold weather daylillies. Hope this info helps!
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ah748/ccdc.html
2006-09-20 09:39:48 · answer #4 · answered by tigerlily_catmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Calif, Daylilies(Hemerocallis) are SO Hardy! They are easy to divide and transplant. I would definitely pot them up in good potting soil. And do with them what you do with other potted plants in your area in the winter. Some Daylilies die back to nothing. Others are evergreen.
I hope this helps. :-) Good luck :-)
2006-09-20 11:02:22 · answer #5 · answered by prillville 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe so
2006-09-20 09:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by nbr660 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋