{"id":8954,"date":"2022-04-10T16:14:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/watering-lilies-in-pots\/"},"modified":"2022-04-10T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T15:47:22","slug":"watering-lilies-in-pots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/watering-lilies-in-pots\/","title":{"rendered":"Watering lilies in pots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Caroline<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Hello,<br \/>\nI received bulbs from you around 5-6 weeks ago, I have stored them In compost; I am now ready to pot up; please advise how to water. I have read not to allow water logging or over watering, it I\u2019m still unsure!<br \/>\nCan you be a little more specific please.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much<br \/>\nCaroline<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">Hi Caroline<\/p>\n<p>You need to water your lilies regularly during active growth periods but do not over water them allowing the lily bulbs to get waterlogged as they will rot unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>So water them well (ensuring the pots have drainage holes) say once a week but more regularly when the weather is warmer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8618\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8618\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-1107x1536.jpg 1107w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-1476x2048.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-scaled.jpg 1845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roselily Aisha planted in pots<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hope this helps.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Caroline<\/p>\n<p>You need to water your lilies regularly during active growth periods.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/watering-lilies-in-pots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,24,101,96],"tags":[453,232],"class_list":["post-8954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","category-lily-bulbs","category-lily-care","category-pots","tag-c255","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Roselily-Aisha-03-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954","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=8954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8956,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8954\/revisions\/8956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}