Planting a Whole Bunch of Lilies!!! 🙌💚 (Asiatic, Oriental, Trumpet, Canna & Calla) // Garden Answer

hey guys how's it going so today we're actually going to be out in the garden planting bulbs but i wanted to start here in the studio because that's where i had all my bulbs it's nice and cool in here so i figured since it took me so long to get around to planting all of these they would do better in here which they all still look really good it's just kind of a weird time to be out and it's actually very strange outside today we're expecting a storm tonight in fact we just had a storm warning uh one county over from us is expecting golf ball size hail 50 mile an hour winds and if the storm can maintain its intensity they said we can expect a little bit of that here hopefully not we've never seen hail that big here um so i'm thinking we'll probably miss the bulk of the storm but it's like really overcast and it's kind of it feels like the calm before it's just really weird so anyway i feel like bulb planting is a good thing to do because hail can't damage bulbs so here's my spread i'm really hoping that the bulbs in the bags are still okay some of them were like trying to break free from their bag and some look pretty quiet so it may be a little bit of a mixed bag results uh in terms of whether or not they're still alive they've been in these bags for a long time i've got calla lilies here cannas these right here are the asiatic lilies we've got oriental lilies here these are the hearty gladiolus we'll be planting and then we've got like lily hybrids and trumpet lily right there i actually haven't planted any of these types of lilies in our garden we do have a couple of varieties in the back formal garden that were here when we moved in and i absolutely love them i feel like they're just a solid they're a solid performer in our garden and i never really have to mess with them which i love i just cut them back every year when they're all done you know in the fall and kind of clean them up and that's pretty much it so kind of a few basic differences between the lilies so we've got like the asiatic lilies which i believe are like native to several different areas in asia and you can find them in different heights like for anywhere from one to five or six feet i mean it just kind of depends on the variety like i have one variety today that gets like two to three feet tall and another variety that gets close to four feet tall so it just kind of depends there they're early blooming they're hardy they aren't fussy they don't really care about soil type so long as it's well draining i appreciate that in the plant asiatic lilies unlike oriental lilies don't have a fragrance so if that's something that bothers you which i feel like especially if you planted them in mass it might be a little bit overwhelming i mean because lilies can be a super strong smelling thing flower out in the garden so oriental lilies are native to um japan actually and they'll range in size as well i think anywhere from like one and a half or two feet all the way up to six to eight feet uh i didn't check the heights on mine oh good i was kind of like oh no did i order one that gets eight feet tall no might get about uh three to four feet tall it looks like oriental lilies have huge blooms very highly fragrant their leaves are a little bit thicker like bolder than the asiatic lilies and they typically start blooming after asiatic bloom's asiatic lilies are done blooming um so it's kind of fun to have both so that you can kind of have a graduation of bloom there and then of course different colors and kind of a different structure of plant and i do have one variety of trumpet lily as well which is very like you plant them similarly they have a very light sweet fragrance and the variety i have is called lady alice turks cap and they'll get upwards of five feet tall and they can have up to 20 blooms on one stem which is amazing and they've kind of these recurved petals that are really gorgeous so i think that actually might be the tallest one i have here nope nope i've got an orange planet lily tree i forgot it's three to eight feet and that one can actually handle a little bit more dense soil like it can handle more clay soil so in a nutshell i feel like lilies are just a really easy kind of low-maintenance plant to put in the ground easy to plant they like a fold-apart sun kind of situation and they can just handle so many different soil types i feel like they would be good for most gardens i'm going to be planting most well i think most all the lilies in the ground because they want to get so big they would require a pretty good sturdy heavy pot to hold up their you know size especially the ones that may need to be staked so those will go in the ground and then i've got hearty glads which i've never planted before which i think i'm going to plant in containers so i've got two varieties here i have las vegas hardy gladiolis which are yellow with a red edge and then i've got nymph hardy gladiolus which look a little bit more like these are a little bit of a weird shape these look like a traditional gladiolus corm right there but these are actually a zone four through nine they're really good at naturalizing they only get 18 to 24 inches tall so i thought they would be really fun to plant in a container these usually bloom early summer so i'm not sure you know since i'm planting them so late i'm not sure what to expect the las vegas variety blooms usually mid to late summer so anyway i just think i'm going to grab two pots and just pack each pot full of those do you like the cozy coop in the background that's benjamin's entertainment when he's out here when i'm working um okay so what i think i'm gonna do is we're just gonna go out to the garden and put all these in the back of a cart and we'll just go to each location and i'll kind of go over planting instructions and then we'll look at each individual variety as i go today and kind of we'll throw some pictures up on the screen so you guys can see some pretties [Music] so this is where i'm going to plant all of the calas i already have the callus the be my main squeeze that's the variety i planted in an earlier video right here in this container and they're doing really well i planted five bulbs one of them already has a bloom but they're looking really good so i think that the other ones will like this position they get a lot of strong morning light and then a little protection in the afternoon so i have the container here with the be my prints [Music] we're going to have some hammering noise you guys for a while they're working on the footings there in case you're wondering and then we've got be my heart right here right next to the pretty pistachio hookers i'm just loving that color this year and then over here i've got two pots one with the be my first love the pink and the be my sunshine yellow okay guys as a quick refresher this is what a calla lily rhizome looks like you want to plant them with the smooth side facing down the nubby side facing up so all the nubby points here are growth points and if you can see i'm not sure in this camera we were having some issues with it focusing the other day hopefully you can see that but there's like a brighter spot a green spot it's already starting to push a little bit of growth so i'm just going to plant them a few inches down in this pot i'm going to sprinkle a little bit of starter fertilizer in here and then we're just going to cover over them with soil [Music] calories are done i'm moving on to hearty glads i'm going to plant the nymph variety which has more of like a white and pink look to it up near our kitchen walkway area i've got a pot up there and then i've got the same pot that i'm gonna plant to the las vegas variety and these are the weird shaped bulbs right here but you can clearly see the growth point um so here's another one right here that's just like long but you can see the growth point right here anyway i'm just going to jam these in the pots i'm going to plant them pretty thick the las vegas variety gets 24 inches and i think the same with the nymph but this variety has a little bit more of the orange not orange yellow and red kind of coloring and i have a good spot to put them but it's not quite ready yet so i'm just going to pot them up and just leave them here on the brick patio until i'm ready that spot's ready so this is the pot i'm going to be using i'm going to plant them about midway says about four inches deep but i'm just going to cluster them as thickly as i can in this pot [Music] [Music] i'm excited i think that these glads will be beautiful in this container right here you can see kind of in reference to where we're at i popped an umbrella up yesterday to shade the hookerellas because it was over 100 and the poor things it goes a little bit too much for them until they're established but anyway i'm excited for this now we get to move on to the lilies it is see look at those fantastic lilies aren't those beautiful those were here when we moved in and they're in their full glory right now aren't those pretty benjamin i like them so i would say we could plant them over in this spot which has remained largely untouched because it's been such a pain to water we've been trying to figure out the water system but i did plant 25 white dahlias in this space and it does look i planted them late it looks like they are starting to pop through the soil so i think we'll wait on this area all right guys so we're actually out in the cut flower garden i feel a little bit bad because when i initially put this order in i had intended on putting a lot of these lilies in the area around the gazebo before i knew the gazebo was leaving it was before we had decided to put in a greenhouse and all those flower beds are going to be retooled so benjamin and i we ran around and kind of looked for areas to put these but i don't just want to plunk them anywhere so i figured just lining them up in the cut flower garden would be a really fun kind of solution for now because they'll be easy to access we'll be able to come in and dig them up easily and then put them in spots where we actually want them out in the garden plus many of them are really good cut flowers anyway so kind of makes sense so before i get them all on the ground which i'm just going to ag holes they go about six inches deep roughly 10 to 18 inches apart depending on the variety since they're just going to be out here for a short time i could go every 12 inches if i wanted to probably as just a rule no matter what variety they are and they would probably be fine and our drip is every it's spaced out every six inches on our drip tape so it's going to work out great but i want to run through all these varieties we'll throw a picture on the screen so you can see hopefully what we're going to see later on this season all right so first off we have our three asiatic lily varieties all of which are zoned three through eight they need to be planted six inches deep and roughly 12 to 18 inches apart these right here are the eyeliner lilies look at these they already have buds i don't know how these are going to grow these might all grow really wonky and weird i don't know but i think they'll like being in the ground these are gorgeous white blooms with a chocolate brown margin that looks like eyeliner and then little chocolate brown spots toward the center i can't remember how tall these get 40 inches oh no two to three feet tall then we've got the pink giant lily which is kind of like a light salmon pink with chocolate brown to black spots all over on them 40 inches tall gorgeous flowers and then we've got a variety called easy dream which grows about three feet tall and this one they describe as being cherry pink with a soft creamy yellow inner throat with chocolate spots really looking forward to seeing what this one looks like and then we have a hybrid lily called knight rider which has six inch near black flowers 35 inches tall is how big this one's supposed to get these were the most sketchy bulbs that i have i feel like this was just left in the bag for too long my fault i'm going to plant them anyway because you just never know sometimes they're resilient but i was looking forward to seeing blooms on that one and then we've got the lady alice turks cap trumpet lily which we already talked about inside they've got the recurved white petals with yellow orange centers really beautiful this is four to five feet tall so i know i may have to come out with some steaks however i really don't expect any of these to grow as tall as they can they could then we've got our two oriental lily varieties which have the high fragrance there's one called rose lily mixture which the picture of this one is gorgeous it's a mix of colors like white and various pink tones with double flowers three to four feet tall and i believe these are a zone three through eight two and then we have tiger moon these are absolutely gorgeous they grow about 40 inches tall the blooms are up to nine inches wide white with kind of a yellow stripe kind of down the center but then maroon and orange speckles they are really beautiful they almost have a glow quality to them and then we have the orange planet lily trees i have no idea what to expect out of these it says they can grow anywhere from three to eight feet tall that is huge i can feel or i can see some growth in there orange flowers with orange yellow edges so out here in the cut flower garden you can see uh this poor space has been so wind blown but you know what things have kind of rebounded way more than i thought they would i haven't even reseeded this first row here and you can see do you remember that huge windstorm right after like immediately after i seeded this stuff everything is looking so good like it's patchy but i'm thrilled like this is the delft blue nigella right here we can see some colors starting to form here i did plant the bunny tails grass and do you remember how sad those looked when i planted them they're starting to put on some like some thickness now and as we go down we've got more of the nigella some cress um the orlea the white finch orlea looks absolutely gorgeous look at this pollinators all over it and then our lark spurs look at these they're starting to they're all butted up and starting to put on a little bit of color then of course we have a bunch of cabbage celery a bunch of onions 240 collective feet of potatoes here some gorgeous stock let me hop over here stock is looking beautiful and i've got more stock coming so it was kind of like a succession crop the mahogany splendor hibiscus there and then the next row is the clear one i just seated xenias right here some of them are up and then i've got snapdragons in the first two rows so this is the row we're going to be lining them up in and then i will be planting cosmos in the rest of the row and i don't expect the potatoes to stick around for too much longer they are just starting to like most of them are done blooming so the plants themselves will start looking kind of sad and they'll start flopping over and then we'll start testing for readiness i really like this color of stock right there that's pretty okay i'm going to keep these together by group and kind of by size i'll do asiatic and i'll start with the smallest size and work my way up to the highest size and so forth here we go [Applause] [Music] so this is what a lily bulb looks like for those of you who haven't seen one before they're usually shaped pretty much like this it's how all of the ones i've planted today look some of which have green growth already so it's easy to tell which way to plant facing up but most of the time you can locate the roots at the bottom and you know that those face down and the pointy side faces up so we're just going six inches down [Music] okay the lilies go about a little over halfway down this row now we have three or four days at 111. on our forecast so because these lilies were in the bags inside kind of a more dim room i do need to go along and make sure that if some of their growth points are still sticking out of the soil i need to cover them up just mound up the soil and protect them because those will fry for sure will fry here's another one so i'm just going to go do that all the way down this row to make sure they're all protected and then we'll get them all watered in and then the last thing we have to plant are the cannas so we're over at the side of the greenhouse these are the 2022 recipes for proven winners they're doing really good i'm really loving these blends of flowers but this is also where i put the one can i planted in a video earlier this season because i knew it would be protected from the wind i could hook it up on drip and just see how it does now in this second container that i just brought out i think i forgot to turn the camera on anyway i brought it out from behind the barn filled it with soil that's all i've done so far and then i lined the rhizomes up on top i'm gonna try putting five all five of the rhizomes because a couple of them are really small and i thought it would be interesting to see how quickly five will fill this container in a season versus one like is it worth it to go ahead and pack it full with something like this that's not grown yet or is it smarter to just just do the one like will it grow fast enough to fill it up i think it'll be a really fun experiment so with these right here you only go like one to two inches underneath the soil surface so i've already kind of pre-moistened this the soil here we're going to set the rhizomes you can see the growth point right here so you just set it in there with the growth point facing up and cover it over so again go one to two inches down you set the rhizome to where the growth point is facing up cover it over and i just have the pot kind of divided as best as i could with the five to accommodate the five rather there we go boy they just don't look like much do they when you plant them i actually think that these see the blooms on these they'll be really pretty it's called cleopatra in this kind of more bronze mustard colored pot because i think that that will be a gorgeous like late summer early fall show cannas can handle or would prefer really consistent moisture too and i would say the lilies like average moisture and the calas i watered in today just to settle the soil and i probably won't water them much until i start seeing some growth above the soil surface because those i find are a little bit easier to rot anyway i'm really excited that all the bulbs are in the ground or in containers planted even if they're not planted where they're going to end up forever i think that any longer in those bags inside and they probably would have been at a point where i wouldn't have had any growth they probably would have had been tossed so anyway we will be reporting back hopefully with some some success stories on these bulbs later on this season thank you guys so much for watching this video hope you enjoyed it and we will see you in the next one bye

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Length: 19min 6sec (1146 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021