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Chances are, you may
have received one or more of these flowers for Easter…spring bulbs like
tulips – daffodils - crocus and hyacinths - Easter lilies – or maybe even a
nice pot of pansies. So now the question is, what do you do with them?
Well, they can be recycled back into the garden.
Pansies are very cold
hardy, so enjoy them indoors for a little while if you’d like, but then move
them outdoors and plant them…plant them either in the ground or in
containers. They’ll give great colors thru the entire spring season.
Spring bulbs (tulips,
daffodils, crocus, hyacinths) have been forced to flower early, so again,
enjoy these indoors until they have finished flowering. Feed them now and
again in a few weeks with a bulb food or water soluble fertilizer when you
water. Once finished flowering, remove spent flowers stem and all, and
place the bulbs in a very sunny window, or take them outdoors, and let them
grow in the pot. Once they turn yellow, cut off the foliage, remove the
bulbs, and plant them in the ground for next years spring flowers.
And for the Easter
lilies, most of these can also be planted in the garden. Again, enjoy the
flowers, but once they’re finished, remove the entire flower head. Keep
them in a sunny area indoors, until early May. Take them outside, cut them
back 2/3, and plant them in a sunny location. They will regrow, and maybe
reflower this summer. If not, they will flower for you next summer.
Remember, these lilies
were grown in a greenhouse, so they’re too tender to take outside right
now. That’s why we wait until May to plant them. And, this is one plant
that truly is deathly toxic to cats. So if you have a cat, be sure to keep
your Easter lily on a shelf where the cat can’t go. Then plant it outside
in early May. |
