Lilies

Through 2009, as I had the year before, I bought several lilies in flower for my wife from garden centres and B&Q, they were quite cheap.
When the flowers died, I cut them back and left them in their plastic pots in a corner of the garden, she didn't want them inside the house again the following year because of "creepy crawlies, " so they were ignored, but they all came up again but weren't as profuse as they had been.
So by this year I had about nine pots of them. I'd kept them in the shed since the end of September and they'd nicely dried out. Today I tipped them out separating them and found that I had about 30 corms which were sending out shoots, so I made room in a bed for them at the bottom of the garden and planted them out. Should look quite spectacular if they all come up.

 

Hello Doghouse, I think you did the right thing to plant the lilies in the ground.
I grow lilies in pots and in the ground and they all get on fine. They seem to be perfectly hardy.
I'm sure you'll get a great display.

 

We shall be waiting for photographic evidence later this year!