Planting Lilies
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Lilies are one of the most popular bulbs around. Their flowers are large and fragrant with a vast range of vivid colours to choose from, often with interesting markings.
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0:00 now you think that gardening Remains the
0:02 Same but it doesn't it's changing all
0:04 the time it's really big business and
0:06 the plants are changing the bulbs are
0:08 changing and lilies are changing pimento
0:11 lilies these are fantastic dwarf
0:14 beautiful but the Oriental release that
0:17 means they're going to flower in July
0:19 August time and the flowers are just as
0:22 big but the beauty of these is the stems
0:24 are much much shorter now for planting
0:27 I'm planting them in a pot you can plant
0:28 them out in the borders
0:30 and the fact that these are a dwarf
0:32 means that you can have them as ground
0:34 cover
0:34 now in a pot like these are and I've got
0:37 two packs of 20 here so I'm I'm gonna
0:39 plant up quite a few pots because the
0:41 perfume is fantastic
0:43 Now with uh some John in his compost I
0:46 put some Crocs in the bottom
0:48 just just really to allow drainage
0:50 because lilies do not like moisture at
0:53 the at the root Crown they actually
0:55 start to rot so let the moisture drain
0:57 away and any sort of drainage material
1:00 Drew
1:01 old Crocs polystyrene balls anything
1:04 that just allows that moisture to drain
1:06 away
1:07 now it's as simple as that with a bit of
1:09 John inish compost I use John inish
1:11 because it's really got the weight to it
1:13 and outside because these are all going
1:15 outside on the patio with with a bit of
1:17 weight to it it's not going to trouble
1:19 at all now in a pot this size
1:22 it'll take probably five bulbs which is
1:25 absolutely perfect and that will be a
1:27 massive color
1:28 and the colors are phenomenal this every
1:31 color you could actually wish for now
1:34 dwarf growing orientals that are
1:35 absolutely fabulous like I said dwarf
1:38 growing beautiful flowers and in August
1:40 July time oh you're gonna get some
1:43 perfume
1:44 and there's so many varieties Garden
1:46 Party white with golden yellow stripes
1:48 wonderful gold band Little John a
1:52 delicate pink with a dark stripe edged
1:54 White
1:54 Mona Lisa that'll put a smile on your
1:57 face muscaday stocky prolific white pink
2:00 spots oh I tell you or pimento Pottery
2:05 white oh the the choice is endless the
2:09 colors are endless but I'll tell you
2:11 what the perfume Remains the Same you
2:13 try them in a border ground cover you
2:15 can't beat it and it's as easy and as
2:17 simple as that with five in a pot done
2:20 in no time
2:21 some more compost on top
2:24 get your hands in there that's good
2:27 and I was thinking I saw on that program
2:29 the other day you know watching
2:31 gardeners getting their hands dirty and
2:33 that and
2:34 it's uh it's surprising really because
2:36 what you need is
2:38 to enjoy it and if you enjoy wearing
2:41 gloves wear them it doesn't matter it
2:43 doesn't make you less of a gardener
2:45 because you wear gloves I don't like
2:46 getting your hands filthy dirty it just
2:49 so happens that I don't mind
2:51 and it's as simple as that now I'm
2:53 planting these but I bought quite a few
2:56 because what I'm going to do and what
2:57 I'm going to try to do is use them in
3:00 the Border as ground cover because bear
3:02 in mind they dwarf are growing these
3:03 pimentos
3:05 they're wonderful for ground cover the
3:07 flowers are just as big so July August
3:09 we're getting the flowers and the
3:11 perfume is going to be fantastic
3:13 this is a really good development and
3:15 I'm looking forward to July and August
3:17 optimism you see that's what it's all
3:19 about
3:28 so we're out in the front garden and
3:30 this is more to do with traffic and cars
3:32 and movement going on but you want to
3:34 make a show you want to make a bit of a
3:36 hit for people that are coming
3:37 and these dwarf orientals are going to
3:39 do that I mean June time we're talking
3:41 about uh they're just about to come in
3:44 they're looking really good another
3:45 month these are going to look fantastic
3:48 but then we're going to move on to the
3:49 asiatics which are out now and what a
3:52 show you get a neighbor come you get
3:54 your friends coming they could not help
3:56 but stop and say oh fantastic what a
3:59 show but then you can hit him with the
4:02 perfume so as far as Little John's
4:04 concerned which is what this one's
4:06 called little Jeff thinks he's fantastic
4:08 and I'm gonna do this every year from
4:10 now on
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