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- Apply bone meal to crocuses as flowers fade.
- Pick faded tulip blooms but allow greenery to die off naturally before picking. Braid leaves to keep them tidy.
- Watch out for thrips on your Daffodils. Thrips are insects that will cause the leaves and flowers to turn pale silver, then brown and eventually die. If you find an infestation; remove and destroy the infested part and use lace wings soap or green lace wings to eliminate thrips.
- Add bone meal and well rotted compost to Asiatic Lilies when the foliage is several inches tall.
- To keep deer away from Asiatic Lilies, mix a concoction containing: Hot Peppers, Garlic cloves, liquid soap and water. Spray the lilies with this mixture to fend off deer.
- Divide over grown winter iris and order later flowering varieties for mid - summer planting.
- Plant new lily-of-the-valley pips. Mulch well with compost to protect against unforeseen cold spells.
- If you've purchased or received an Easter Lily this year; ensure a long lasting, healthy plant by placing your plant in indirect sunlight, away from drafts and don't overwater it. When the flowers open up, pinch off the yellow anthers for longer life. Fertilize your lily once the flowers have finished.
- Once all danger of frost has past, you can move your Easter Lily plant out into a sunny spot in your garden. Be sure to mulch the roots of the plant over winter and remove the mulch again in spring. You'll enjoy your Easter Lilies for years to come.
- Remember, once Easter Lilies have established in your garden they will bloom in mid-summer, rather than spring. If you want Easter Lilies to bloom at Easter, you will need to force the bulbs.
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