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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Tiger Lillies
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:11:56 -0600


Tiger Lillies host (asymptomatically) a lot of lilly viruses so fancy bulb
places don't tend to sell them. They are really more of a pass along plant.
Try garage sales and the sort of local garden club plant sale where people
divide their own plants and pot up the extras.


I don't know about diseases, but I could have given away bushels of them a couple of years ago, when I finally dug them out of my back yard. This is an old house, with old-fashioned kinds of plants, and the tiger lilies had just about taken over. They're pretty, and care-free, but man do they spread!

Then again, if you can mow all around the patch, that would probably keep them contained, I suppose (not necessarily killing the plants that invade the grass, but keeping them small).

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)







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