{"id":10783,"date":"2023-07-10T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/planting-3\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T12:14:12","slug":"planting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/planting-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How deep to plant lily bulbs with stem already on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Joy &#8211; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>I purchased 5 lily bulbs at Hampton Court. I need to plant them and am unsure how deep as they have 1.5&#8243; stem. Do I still plant them with 4 to 6&#8243; of soil above?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nJoy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Hi there,<\/p>\n<p>Please plant your lilies with 4-6inches of soil above the top of the bulb not including the stem that has already sprouted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10786\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/Lilies\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10786\" class=\"wp-image-10786 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lily-with-stem-375-x500-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lily-with-stem-375-x500-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lily-with-stem-375-x500.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lily Bulbs with growth<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there,\u00a0Please plant your lilies with 4-6inches of soil above the top of the bulb.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/planting-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,106,301,24],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-10783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","category-lilies","category-lillies","category-lily-bulbs","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lily-with-stem.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10787,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions\/10787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}