I am picking up some double stargazer lilys tomorrow. If you want to trade for them let me know so I can get extra.

Hi Tracy, Scaling is a little different from "dividing" (as most people mean it). Sometimes you'll get two large stalks coming out of a lily bulb and if you dig it up there are clearly two parts that can be "divided" into two relatively large individual bulbs. By scaling, one separates an individual bulb into its "garlic clove like" scales. Given the right conditions the scales may be enticed into producing tiny bulbets. After a cold period of a few months the bulbets will produce a single leaf (sometimes two). The next season it will be larger - but it may take a few years to get large enough to bloom (depending on the lily). It a process closer to growing from seed (except you get a clone) than dividing. Personally, I save scaling for the more expensive or hard to find lilies. You end up spending enough money on potting soil, peat pots, etc., that the savings aren't that great for readily available lilies. If you want to try scaling just for the fun of it (and why not?), my advice is to buy some mail order bulbs this Fall and scale some of those. But if you're digging up your bulbs to move them anyways - then go ahead and take a few scales from them. As long as you don't take too many they should be fine. The scale doesn't have to be that big it just has to have a little of the basal plate attached to it. While some people take apart a bulb completely (getting a LOT of scales) I just take several from the outside so I can still plant the bulb successfully. I'm not much of a gambler. I figure a bulb in the hand is better than a bunch of scales in the bush (AKA my fridge's veggie drawer). :) The North American Lily Society website has a simple description geared to the home gardener that might be helpful to you. Their main page is www.lilies.org. -Helen Here is a link that might be useful: NALS propagation page

those are petunias. that was the only picture that had an orange lily blooming. They must have finished up. I also do white alysumn from seed. This year I did a light yellow petunia , year before pink petunia then year before that marigolds. That way the calendulas and dahlias don't get covered up.

First, it is absolutely the wrong time of year to be finding lily bulbs for sale!! Started or flowering lily plants, yes; bulbs, no!! Lily bulbs are usually offered in spring and sometimes in fall. They never go fully dormant like many other bulbs do and do not store well at all. They should be planted as soon as they come into stores (March in my area). Lily bulbs available now will either be very dry and desiccated or soft and mushy....neither will grow to produce a flowering plant next season. What you are finding now at a dollar store are just some other retailers older cast-offs and not worth any amount of $$, no matter how cheap! Daffodils, tulips, crocus and other spring flowering bulbs should be available right around Labor Day in most parts of the country and can be planted as soon as the summer temps cool with the start of fall. You might also be able to find lily bulbs available then as well, depending on your location. In general, spring flowering bulbs will be available in stores in early fall....summer flowering bulbs (lilies, glads, dahlias, etc.) in late winter/early spring. Any bulbs you find for sale in midsummer will be stale and not very vigorous, if they even grow at all. And while it will be a pretty basic selection, the box stores (HD, Lowe's, etc.) and places like Walmart sell them pretty inexpensively if the budget is tight.