In case you missed it, last Sunday was Easter. You may not celebrate Easter, but you can still pick up an Easter lily at your local garden center. You can call it a spring lily if you want to. They are pretty, and for most people, they have a delightful fragrance. Keep them as a houseplant while the flowers last, and later you can plant them in the garden. The lily will stay blooming longer if you keep the high temperature at about 70 degrees in the day and in the 50-60 degree range at night. This week, you can probably pick up several for the price of what one sold for before Easter.
They are an easy perennial to grow in hardiness zones 3-7, which covers most of the country. With a little more care, they can be grown in zones 8-10, as I explain later in this article.
