{"id":3943,"date":"2020-04-17T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/not-sure-of-soil-conditions\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:29:20","slug":"not-sure-of-soil-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/not-sure-of-soil-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Not sure of soil conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/> &#8211; <em>Caroline douglas <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Hi, could you tell me which are the best lillies to plant in flower beds in full sun and not fantastic soil. Thanks Caroline <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Do you know whether your soil is Acidic or Alkaline and when you say &#8216;not fantastic soil&#8217;, is it free-draining?  As long as it isn&#8217;t clay soil, then Oriental Trumpets will be fine. OT lilies are happy in any well-drained soil. They can get quite tall though (up to 6&#8242;), hence the common name Tree lilies. So if you are looking for something a little shorter and unsure of your soil type then maybe try a Longiflorum Asiatic Lily or a Longiflorum Oriental Lily. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/home.php?cat=261\">Oriental Trumpet Lilies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/home.php?cat=259\">Longiflorum Asiatic Lilies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/home.php?cat=262\">Longiflorum Oriental Lilies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know whether your soil is Acidic or Alkaline and when you say &#8216;not fantastic.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/not-sure-of-soil-conditions\/\">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":[33,301,24,56,85],"tags":[445,452,463,459,464,232],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-lillies","category-lily-bulbs","category-newsletter","category-summer-flowers","tag-gardens","tag-lilies-lilybulbs-summerflowers-getoutside-getgardening-flowers-flowersforyourgarden-therhs-plantingguide-summergarden-stayathome-lillies","tag-c259","tag-c261","tag-c262","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\/3943","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=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}