{"id":13304,"date":"2025-12-11T09:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/lilies-in-bud-in-december\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:25:39","slug":"lilies-in-bud-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/lilies-in-bud-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilies in bud in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Janet &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Hi, I purchased Lilly bulbs in July at the RHS Wentworth show. I have planted them and they have grown and have flowers buds now in December. Do I let them flower? As I think this will stop them flowering again next year. But if I cut them down the energy will be lost. What is best for me to do. I could send you a photo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2.jpeg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"302\"><br data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"86\" \/>If your Lilies have formed buds, it\u2019s best to\u00a0leave them on\u00a0for now and let the plant decide what it can manage. If the weather stays mild, the buds may still open.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"463\">If the buds don\u2019t open and start to yellow or die back, you can then\u00a0remove them\u00a0so the plant can redirect its energy into the bulb for next year\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"465\" data-end=\"596\">Either way, the plant will be absolutely fine for next year \u2014 just allow the foliage to die back naturally so it can feed the bulb.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your Lilies have formed buds, it\u2019s best to\u00a0leave them on\u00a0for now and let the.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/lilies-in-bud-in-december\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-13304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image1-2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304","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=13304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13366,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13304\/revisions\/13366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}