Lilies look wonderful in a vase or bouquet, but did you know you can learn how to grow lilies in the garden, too? It sounds a little daunting, but as long as you know when to plant lily bulbs, and ...

Q:Can I grow Asiatic lilies in a pot? Whatkind of other summer flowering bulbs can be grown in containers? –J.C., Oceanside A:The best time to plant summer floweringbulbs would be in the spring, but ...

Lilies are my favorite flowers. Big, colorful and often fragrant, they are the highlights of my midsummer garden. While they are relatively easy to grow, I'm sharing my care tips learned over more ...

Bulbs bursting with color are one of the best ways to light up an outdoor space, long before most perennials, trees and shrubs have begun to grow. Planting spring bulbs should result in a gorgeous ...

Question: I don’t have a lot of garden space, but I do have a nice large sunny patio. I’d love to grow some showy lilies out there. Is it possible to grow lilies in containers? Any advice would be ...

Of course you can buy them ready-potted in the spring or early summer - supermarkets as diverse as Waitrose and Morrisons sell them patio-ready - but you will have more choice of lilies if you plant ...

Lily bulbs are being harvested later – often as late as January. This makes them perfect for spring planting. Check your pH and make sure you can grow the lily you want. If growing in pots, use peat ...

Tom Brown: 'I find that growing them in pots allows you to water and feed the plants with greater effect, which results in them performing in a much showier fashion than they would do if they were in ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. Ever optimistic, I have been ordering the season’s lilies. Any garden or balcony can house them. Many do ...

Roman Gonzalez is the creator of the urban gardening blog MrBrownThumb, founder of the Chicago Seed Library, and a co-founder of One Seed Chicago. You may be more familiar with the Hippeastrum genus ...