Planting Tiger Lilies
Tiger lilies are edible and are often found in Asian dishes. They are also medicinal, relieve congestion,
Nausea from pregnancy. They have six stamens, one pistil and a three lobed stigma. Native Americans ate the roots, baking them like potatoes.
The tiger lily known also as a day lily, grow large fiery orange flowers. It is of the oriental variety. The name tiger probably comes from the brown spots all over the flower. It is also called the ditch lily as it is found growing in ditches across Americana. It is east to grow these wild flowers, they are content in nature or at home in a flower garden. The tiger lily grows in tuberous groups.
The plant flowers in July and August. Tiger lilies have a strong sweet scent, there are two type of tiger lilies, oriental and wild flower. The oriental is a bulb that multiplies through the leaf. The wild flower variety is a tuberous root. The tiger lily is known by a wide variety of names all over the world.
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The tiger lily can be planted from spring until early fall. Soak the roots for thirty minutes or more in cool water before planting, be sure the water is cool and not cold. You may add a good plant food to the water. Don't over soak,plant new plants within a couple hours. If you are unable to plant dig a hole place plants in and lightly cover with dirt.
When planting place tiger lilies at least two feet apart, dig a hole two feet round by eighteen inches deep for each tiger lily to be planted. Mix in a good compost or other organic matter with the soil you removed. Set tiger lilies at the right depth and add soil around the plant and press down firmly.
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Tiger lilies do best in full sun or light shade, Tiger lilies also like well draining soil. Each year they will spread and multiply adding new additions each year.
Tiger lilies will fit in with any landscape, they are drought resistant, disease free. They thrive in most any garden soil and spread, living up your landscape with vivid color. This is the reason day lilies are called the perfect perennial. Water tiger lilies every other day for the first week or two till roots are set and established.
Developing seed pods should be taken off as they draw much energy from your lilies.
When sprouts emerge in spring, feed your tiger lilies and other plants a good all purpose fertilizer. It feeds it self throw the bulbs that produce leaves. The bulbs can then be removed, and the new bulbs started in peat moss in a cool dry place until they are ready to be planted in the landscape.
Tiger lilies are easy to care for and only need fertilizer in the poorest of soil conditions to thrive. They are prone to slugs and beetles so you may want to grow your tiger lilies in raised pots in the garden to keep slugs and beetle at bay.
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