ok Yep its really over, I cant see my yard from all the snow! so...when dose it begin again????? LOL I WANT SPRING!! I wanna see green again! I wanna see all my new daffs bloom! I want all the birds back,I want warm weather LOL. Mickey Ill take sore muscles over freezin muscles right now. wait I have sore freezin muscles from shoulving my drive way. ;( I have started wintersowing, n worked alil on my notebook.

I have two yards in South Texas and I can't believe it either. My unmowed yard has places that were struggling last year that are now over 30 inches tall. One spot is in full sun and the other is in half shade on the west side of the house. If I was mowing it would have to be every 5 days to keep up. Here is a pic from yesterday. The picture was taken early in the morning. You can see my dog's ears and the top of her tail in that picture. Her tail is 25 inches high. This is the part shade area facing west. My mowed yard gets it every weekend but I can't take a full cut on the mower width. I overlap the previous cut about half way.

It may depend on what kind of winter we have. If I were you, however, I'd consider the possibility of leaving them intact over the winter. I'd watch what happens, but wait till spring to cut them back. That way, if you get dieback, you'll at least have something to cut off that you didn't want to keep anyway. That said, because it's an annual (we're talking catharanthus--vinca rosea--not vinca minor, as in periwinkle/creeping myrtle, right?), even if it survives, it may not be as lovely and floriferous as it was this year. Stems get woody, and plants do get tired and bloomed out, especially if they've set seed. Kay

I have all my lilies in part sun and they all do just fine. L.Black Beauty, Orientals, Martagons, L. speciosum, L. regale, asiatics, and some dwarf tiger lilies. I find that bright light is sufficient. I use Bulbtone once a year on them. The ones that lean to the light are planted where they only get direct sun early in the morning, but are in bright overhead shade otherwise. The tigers want more sun, but the others do fine.