Asiatic lilies are easy to grow and can be planted in various locations with plenty of sunshine and good drainage. To prevent diseases like root rot and fungal infections, ensure proper air circulation and choose a well-drained area with sunlight. Plant bulbs in the fall and apply a high-potassium liquid fertilizer every two weeks from planting until six weeks after flowering. Cover the roots in a thin layer of compost each spring.
Young fresh Asiatic lily shoots emerging in spring can be especially susceptible to damage from slugs and snails. Control methods against these pests include handpicking and torch-lit night care. Asiatic lilies can transform your garden into a vibrant display with the right care. They can be grown in the garden bed or containers, and should be mowed with straw, pine needles, salt hay, or leaves.
General care for Asiatic lilies includes good drainage but not dry soil, requiring 1 or 2 inches of water per week. In hot and dry weather, Asiatic lilies may need to be protected from hail storm damage. Cut off broken flowers and damaged stems, maintaining as many leaves as possible. Trim each stem just above a leaf, like deadheading.
Keep the plants well-watered after an aggressive haircut and spray the foliage after any damage or spots are seen. A spray of Epsom Salts to 1 gallon of water can boost magnesium levels and improve the plant’s ability to absorb nutrients. In some public places, daylilies are intentionally cut back after blooming, then watered and fertilized.
📹 Iris Care After Flowering
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📹 Boy uses umbrella to prevent elevator door from closing, causes free fall
A #boy put his umbrella’s handle between #elevator doors to prevent it from closing in Fuzhou City, east China’sJiangxiProvince.
Thank you! We had a glorious spring here in southeastern NC and the iris beds I inherited when I moved here were the most abundantly beautiful they have ever been. I’ll never cut them down to the ground because they make a nice bed of greenery all year around even after they bloom. The beds on either side of the front porch steps become a backdrop for summer annuals in front of them. There were so many blooms this year that i’ve needed to deadhead and cut the stalks back but wanted to make sure I did them right. Thanks again for the instruction!!
Thank you for the article. Remember to always use your pruning shears with the blade towards the portion that you are going to retain. If the Anvil is towards the portion you are going to retain it will be a crushing cut which would heal much more slowly and look unattractive in the meantime. This is a general rule of thumb with all pruning
Thanks for this, and previous article on planting iris. In both you mention “the hole in the middle” of the planting problem. My solution is to plant three rhizomes in a group, with all growing in the same direction, instead of out from the center. The whole patch may move with time, but you can always split off a few rhizomes from the front and move them to the back of the galloping herd!
Thank you for this article. When I moved into my place in the Spring of 2012, a few months after my father passed away, I planted a single Iris plant that I dug up from his yard. Since then it’s taken over half the growing area outside my kitchen window, and grows more beautiful each year when it blooms. (As an aside, a few weeks ago while I was out on my patio in the early morning busy taking pictures of them, my kitty decided to escape – for the first time since I adopted her six years ago – because I forgot to close the screen door. Luckily she returned after a half hour, probably because she was ready for breakfast.. 🙂 Anyhow, now that the iris bed is in need of attention, I thought I’d search for a article showing how to properly do the job. In the past I’ve always just guessed how to do it. So your article is just what I need to go out there this time with the confidence to do it the right way.
Thank you. I have a reblooming iris (Ziggy) that I planted last year in August. It bloomed this year but not well. Perhaps it needs a sunnier spot away from the surrounding perennials. Because it’s considered a rebloomer, should it be moved at a different time than other irises, like after its second bloom? When it the best time to move reblooming irises? 🙏
Not one iris bloomed here .. we have several houses on our horse farm and there has been a few blooms but even in our area, few blooms ! We had a late frost, did not get the apple blooms this year but husband says that is why our iris did not bloom. I didn’t think I have been known of a frost that hurt iris?! ??
Hey Catherine! I have a question about some irises I recently replanted from my cousins garden this spring. Theyve been planted for about a week in my backyard. Shady in the morning full sun for 7hours in the afternoon then shade at night. I planted about 13 areas of 3 rhizomes together. Some of the transplanted plants had buds ready to bloom, but now the foliage and budded stems seam to be drooping and falling over. When watering I’ve left the soil damp but never soaked. I’m not sure where to go from here. Any advise?
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Im done with all these large bulbs…their foliage CAN be attractive, but often, if you cut these”unattractive” elements, you actually ruin the bulbs’ ability to regenerate for next season…if they are “buried in a border” you can do it, but otherwise, I see this spent foliage EVERYWHERE and it never looks good…
sorry, this one is crappy. the standard angled pruning cut is not to please your personal visual aesthetic, and contrary to your assertions, there IS a plant health reason for cutting at an angle. I’m going to let you look it up and educate yourself on your own. I consider it just a tad dimwitted to take us ’round the mulberry bush instead of saying: “for best results, we prune the entire flowering stalk this way” Time wasting. Anyway, thanks for your best effort!
I work with elevators all the time, I can pretty much tell you what happened here. The kid held the door open for so long that it “timed out”. Meaning it was gonna close and reset “no matter what was blocking it”. After closing the elevator would do 1 of 3 things: – stop at the midway point between the highest and lowest floors – go to the main lobby – sit there until it figured out what floor it was on. That elevator didn’t drop. Speed looked normal to me. Lesson to be learned here is never try and stop the doors by putting something in between them. If that was his arm, this would be a different story.
the elevator is a public good that have to be shared among everyone who are using the building facilities. The father should never asked the child to hold on the elevator that long, he could just wait for the elevator when he is ready to use, and let others to who needs it. I hope the father learn the lesson not to be selfish and putting his kid in such a position, just to save a few minutes.
I am sick of people posting lies. This is a deliberate attempt to dumb people down. What happened is the lift went into nudge mode and ignored the beam sensors. The lift started moving as the doors closed enough for safety to connect. The lift started moving and when the umbrella hit the top it forced the doors open and broke safety leaving the lift stuck. The lift didn’t freefall. Saying it free falled is very inaccurate and is unacceptable. Also if it freefalled it would have gone upwards because the lift is under half capacity.
As an elevator mechanic, this hurts to watch. The elevator worked properly and definitely did not free fall. NEVER try to pry the door open with your hands. You can try pressing the door open button but if it shut down your safest bet is to wait for someone trained to let you out. The town I live in literally had someone die from prying the doors open while stuck inside an elevator (in 2006) and my coworker had to give the paramedics access to the pit of the elevator shaft to get the guy out. He was still conscious and ended up dying in the hospital later but it was a very traumatic experience for everyone involved.
No. If it was a “free fall”, the child would have been weightless and floating in the elevator, and after a few seconds, when the elevator crashed into the concrete floor of the sub-basement at 300MPH, the boy would have been slammed violently against the floor of the elevator, rupturing all of his organs, shattering all of his bones, and killing him instantly, and the remainder of the elevator would have slammed down on top of him, encasing his crushed remains in mangled steel. None of that happened. Instead, when the door closed, the elevator continued normally to the next floor and stopped normally. The only reason the doors did not open again was that the child had been pressing buttons on the control panel. He probably pressed a “Door Close” button, which would have prevented the door from opening. The only damage was to the umbrella. Total cost of damage: $5 for the umbrella and about $5 in labor for the team who manually opened the elevator door. So please remove all of your click-bait references to “free fall” from your title, description, and closed captions.
all this article really taught me was the real reason i am stuck waiting for the elevator everyday in my apartment building – becasue people are constantly messing around ‘holding’ the elavator waiting for other family members etc instead of using it when they are actually ready to leave. might sound a bit pedantic but when you live on the 27th floor and people are doing this it is infuriating
Poor thing… that happened to me to. I was in the elevator with my dog and the elevator suddenly stopped. I was stuck in ther for 10 minutes but for me it seems like years. My dog didn’t know what was happening but I think it was worried because I was screeming for help and crying (I know… I really overreacted but I was really scared and 12 years old) For some reason the panic button wasn’t working and there was no one outside the door. I hugged my dog and waited. I scream many times “HELP” and “MOM… DAD” but no one heard me. I was scared to death. Even the lights were off and it was dark. Suddenly, the elevator started and for some reason it went on the floor where my house was. I started crying, grab my dog and started knocking the door of my house. When my parents open the door I hug them and tell them what happened. I was shaking. My parents said to me that I shouldn’t be so hysterical but they really supported me and tell me to always be careful…. That’s my story and sorry if my grammar sucks Edit: thx for the likes💓
In 5th grade, I got stuck in an elevator for 2 hours (luckily with a friend) and it fell from the 2nd floor to the 1st floor, and my friend’s arm got hurt pretty bad. No broken bones, maybe just a small sprain. Because of this experience, I’m not even sure if I would call this a free fall either, due to it only going from one floor to another. The kid in the elevator just got lucky. He didn’t experience falling in one. He just got trapped for maybe 20 minutes and was let out.
Why are the people in the comments so rude saying the boy deserves this. Nobody expects this to happen and normally it be totally save. But instead you’re all being shitty towards a little kid. The umbrella caused this? Misbehavior? Adult do this too, standing between the doors to stop them from closing and who would have thought the doors here would have closed. Be a bit more human!
That elevator is operating perfectly well. The rod of the umbrella was simply too thin for the doors to detect it. Then, the elevator descended. Normally. It’s only at this point where you could argue a malfunction happened. The elevator doors refusing to open signals that the elevator is unsure about its current state. This could be caused by the umbrella misaligning the elevator in the shaft or the kid being lifted off the floor confusing the weight limiting system. Either way, this elevator did not undergo a mechanical fault.
This happened to me on a school trip. Me and 2 of my friends were in the same room on the 8th floor. Since we had a ton of Suitcases, we struggled to get up the stairs. We decided to get the elevator once we reached the 2nd floor. We got in the elevator. We went up. And it started to shake rapidly. It stopped… We were stuck. One of my friends tried to pry open the door while I called the fire station. My other friend was crying on the floor. The fire station was giving me instructions on what to do such as. Stay calm. Dont go to sleep as the elevator could fall and you wouldn’t know. Don’t walk around for the same reason. By this point I was terrified. My parents were over 500 miles away. Eventually, we got saved. We were stuck in between the 6th and 7th floor. I am now scarred from that experience and so are my friends. If anyone is in the same situation I was then follow the steps I provided. Also. Stay fully clothed as it can get very cold. Thank you for reading my story.
this happened to me once, except the one outside was my dog, and the elevator closed on the leash, and started going down. luckily the leash tore and i reached the ground floor safely. I went back again just to see my dog waiting with his tail wagging at our front door. I hugged him and cried a lot that day
My anxiety went up when the kid was messing around in between the doors that opening and closing while the father was … Who knows . I don’t think he was in a life or death situation quite like the article made out, but I bet both kid and father were scared shitless . Hopefully scared enough to never make the same mistakes they did again . I always worry about getting stuck in an elevator and this is terrifying lol
I was in Indianapolis about 15 years ago. I was at a Super 8 on the north side of town. I stuck my hand in to prevent the doors from closing and they clamped shut on my hand. I was in a great deal of pain and could not remove my hand. I yelled for help several times, but no one heard me (on the second floor). I don’t know why, but after about a minute it released. My hand was gouged and bruised. My advice: Never use your hand.
I got stuck in the lift in an office block. It had a phone connected to the security office. I stayed calm and waited for the boys to arrive. After about 15 minutes, they prized the doors open and it was clear that the cabin had come to a stop some 10 inches low, so I stepped out and carried on with my working day. Before this happened, I would have guessed that being stuck in a lift would be very scary but in the event, it simply wasn’t.
the kid even knew which button keeps the door open apparently… looks like he got tired of holding it and decided to goof around and find another way to hold it. maybe he thought the door would sense an obstruction and open again? also for people saying that looks like normal operating speed… doesn’t look like that to me, look at how fast the umbrella went up (edit: i mean sure it isnt free fall but does look like a fall) i doubt the umbrella caused the fall tho?
READ THE DESCRIPTION: But “suddenly” the “elevator” closed and “went into free fall” while breaking the umbrella handle. The lift stopped at the 25th floor, holding the boy captive. *1 = elevator went into free fall *2 = elevator fell freely *3 = elevator fell suddenly therefor boy would fall with elevator suddenly while his muscles were contracting; in zero-g that could make the boy float away from the floor.