You must have had rain. Lucky duck. Dry as a bone here.

Nice combo, Bossy. What’s that tree?

Omar

Q. Lyrata

How pretty.

They are lovely! Did you initially plant an abundance of RL or did they spread/reproduce? Your yard is lovely and so green.

I love that oak also.

I started with a bunch but they have doubled or tripled. My reds, Whites, yellows have not started. Too bad they never bloom together.

Wow that's amazing!

I just had the most wonderful chat w/Nestor from bulbsnmore (eBay). He said fastest way to propagate RL is to take a clump and separate each and every bulb, planting 3” apart. I was dividing and replanting into smaller clumps but from now on I will separate into individuals. I will do a clump at a time so task is not so overwhelming.

he separates every 2-3 years and One bulb will have multiplied into up to 20 depending on RL.

I need to try that with mine.

I need to get mine out of pots and into the soil. I just fear that they will freeze to death here. My typical practice is to keep my RL in the cold frame over winter.

PKponder I'm the same way, but I left a pot of Labuffarosa rain lilies out during February when we got all that rain and it rotted every single bulb. I have some candida ones and surprisingly they survived the heavy rain event without rotting. This year I'm just going to plant them in the ground and then mulch really well.

I believe RL are hardy in z 7-11 so you both s/b ok. I’d transplant if I were you. I dont grow a single one in pots, except ones I started from seed a year ago. I’ve lost 1/2 to overwatering but need to keep potted another year b4 putting in ground.

Should I wait until September to transplant them to the ground? I'm hoping to add more really soon and I wonder if I should keep them in pots until it's cooler, or plant them?

I make decision based on MY convenience, not the plants. Fall would be an easier time.

Ok I'll wait until Fall. I have a few other plants that I'm going to plant around that time frame.

HST, when it’s hot like it is now, I prefer to have less pots to water so i would probably wake up a little earlier and divide/transplant 1-2 pots at a time right now.

Am i being wishy washy about advice? Yes!

No it makes sense lol. I already have quite a few potted plants that I got from a swap and it's been a pain trying to keep them watered.

Wishywashybossyvossy

Omar

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Blackwillow, i remembered that last year I bought two kiddie pools, $7 ea, filled them w/about 2” of water and stuck all the plants who live potted for one reason or another. It works great. Lost none. Only minus is that when it rains you must pump out the water or plants will quickly rot. However, in summer that doesn’t happen very often at all. That has cut down on the watering 10 gazillion pots. Perhaps you or anyone else want to give that a try.

Wow I never thought of doing something like that. That would work out perfectly because I have a lot of potted plants and I have to constantly water them by hand which can get tiring especially when it's humid outside.

Bossy's kiddie pool suggestion worked great for keeping plants alive while I was on vacation. Only lost one plant from staying too wet. I just may leave those plants in the pools for the rest of the summer, or at least until it gets cool enough to plant them in the ground.

The first time I did this I was going on vacation. Easier for sitter to watch 2 tubs than 20+ containers.

when I came back, I really liked watering two tubs. During one particularly humid period I did throw in one mosquito dunk per tub and that worked splendidly. But keeping water level at about 2” pretty much kept mosquitoes at bay. When Fall came around i transplanted or gave away or sold as was originally intended.

I need to get some mosquito dunks too. I really like the idea of using the kiddie pools. A couple would work perfectly for the amount of plants I have.

Here is my Plant ghetto w/2 pools. One in full brutal sun, and another with a little protection for the more delicate plants. We’re supposed to be getting lots of rain so I will be funneling water out to avoid rotting.

Here is $35 shelving from HD for seed propagated stuff.

Wow it almost reminds me of a water garden. :)

Oh, my, I LOVE the kiddie pool idea, Bossy. I'm going to try that ASAP.

After the deluge we’ve gotten (not at ALL complaining) it was time to syphon water out of pools. It’s easy to do, if I can do it.

Here’s pool #2 with all but 1” water taken out. Mosquitoes everywhere despite dunks. I’m wearing Eau de Deet

see the foliage of my new Palo Verde no thorns? Will be planted in E TX in fall

We got about half an inch of rain yesterday and the mosquitoes were out in full force. I still haven't looked for kiddie pools yet.

The half inch is enough to make some rain lilies show themselves.

I'm hoping my 3 pink rain lilies bloom soon especially since we got a little rain? The ones you sent me seeds too are doing great. Something ate the seedlings out of one pot but some of them resprouted thankfully.