Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Easter Lillies

Easter is a time which draws together so much of wonderful tradition- chocolate bunnies, decorating eggs, church services, Easter plays and gift baskets. It is naturally difficult to draw a blank the tradition of Easter lillies. They signify hope, purity, grace and the marvel of life.

lilly easter

Lilies are important at Easter and they are appreciated for their lovely colors, forms and fragrances. So your best bet would be to preserve them as long as possible.

You need to ensure the perfect environment for lilies while they are kept inside the home and it got to be somewhere between 60-65 Fahrenheit with slightly lower temparatures being monitored at night. It is an fully essential to avoid the Easter lillies being exposed to high temperatures or hot air. Easter lilies appreciate indirect sunlight however, direct sunlight would simply kill it. When watering Easter lillies, as with all plants, make a point not to overwater them, but sustenance the soil moist, with fresh draining.

easter lilly

Easter lillies also have a lot of significance in history. Lillies are frequently called the  white robed apostle of hope  and it is trusted that there grew in the Garden of Gethsemane later the events involving Jesus Christ. It is said that lilies started growing from places in which Jesus’s sweat fell on the ground.

Lillies are home to some islands of Japan and the yield of Easter lillies in America is thought to have begun when a WW1 soldier from Oregon by the name of Louis Houghton brought household a travelling bag of lily bulbs in 1919. The lillies were planted by friends and family amongst whom it was distributed, but when the supply was subsequently cut off from Japan, they came into demand and were then nicknamed  White Gold .

Reported to a 2008 report by the Agricultural research service of the US department of agriculture, many attempts have been made to genetically re-enginner easter lilies to become virus resitant and live longer.

easter lillies

Easter lilies are quite rare to find with it being sold for about only two weeks every year however, they rank at number 04 in USA’s potted plant crops.


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