Author name: Louise Hughes

I'm Louise Hughes and I run the flower blog flowersfornow.com. I've been interested in flowers since I was a little girl and I love sharing my knowledge with others. I started the blog as a way to share my love of flowers with the world, and I hope to inspire others to appreciate the beauty of flowers as well.

Does a lily produce seeds?

The vast majority of daylilies are diploid, meaning that they have 22 chromosomes. Most daylilies reproduce by making flowers that produce seeds. The seeds grow into new daylily plants that are exact clones of the parent plant. Another frequent question is “When can we collect seeds from lily flowers?”. This is what my research found. …

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Do lilies have seeds?

Lilies add long-lasting beauty to a field or a home. The flowers spring up in summer and later ripen into pods filled with black seeds. Did you know these glossy black seeds can be used to propagate new plants? The mature lily seed pods have an unremarkable appearance. Moreover, do lilies seed? The vast majority …

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Are lilies evergreen?

In warmer areas, calla lilies are evergreen, but where winter temperatures drop below freezing, they are deciduous. The plants are damaged when temperatures fall below 25 degrees Fahrenheit. In climates colder than USDA zone 8, lift the rhizomes for the winter. Or grow them in containers and take indoors before freezing weather arrives. Other flowers …

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