{"id":1483,"date":"2017-10-10T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/advice-on-preparing-lilies-for-overwintering\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T14:16:15","slug":"advice-on-preparing-lilies-for-overwintering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/advice-on-preparing-lilies-for-overwintering\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice on preparing lilies for overwintering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Frances<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Hi there,<br \/>\nI bought a couple of lily collections from you last year at the Wisley flower show &#8211; they&#8217;ve made a fantastic display in the garden this year. Thank you.<br \/>\nThis has been my first experience with growing lilies and I am a little confused now with how far to cut them back in preparation for winter.<br \/>\nI have read lots of advice about pruning the seed heads and &#8220;allowing the foliage to die back naturally&#8221; but once the foliage has begun to turn brown, how much of the main stem or stalk should be cut back?<br \/>\nHope you can help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Hi there,<br \/>\nWhen the Lily has finished flowering, cut any seed heads back and allow the foliage to die back naturally as you say. Do not be tempted to cut the stem back until stems become hollow and brown. Once this has happened, you can cut the stem back to the service or leave about an inch of stem.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/Care-and-Planting-Guide.html<br \/>\nKind regards<br \/>\n<em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">Loraine Hart<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by &#8211; Frances Hi there, I bought a couple of lily collections from you last year at the Wisley flower show &#8211; they&#8217;ve made a fantastic display in the garden this year. Thank you. This has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/advice-on-preparing-lilies-for-overwintering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,99,24,101,85],"tags":[172,30,19,181,182,121],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-how-to-plant-lilies","category-lily-bulbs","category-lily-care","category-summer-flowers","tag-flowers","tag-garden","tag-lilies","tag-lily-care","tag-sumer-flowers","tag-winter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}