{"id":3333,"date":"2019-10-24T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/when-do-i-cut-back-lilies\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:46:57","slug":"when-do-i-cut-back-lilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/when-do-i-cut-back-lilies\/","title":{"rendered":"When do I cut back lilies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/> &#8211; <em>Jane Millarini<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Should I cut back leaves from outdoor lilies. Some appear to be decaying<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Once the lilies have finished flowering, cut the flower head off and leave the leaves and stem to die back naturally until it turns brown and hollow. Once this occurs you can cut the stem from the base (just above ground level). Leaving everything to die back naturally puts the energy back in the bulb for next year&#8217;s flowering. <\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the lilies have finished flowering, cut the flower head off and leave the leaves.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/when-do-i-cut-back-lilies\/\">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],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-3333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333","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=3333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}