Cultivation and care of the yellow lily

The yellow lily belongs to the family of the iridaceae and to gender Iris, which is made up of more than 300 species of rhizomatous and bulbous plants that have their origin in the more temperate zones of Europe, Africa, America and Asia. It is also known by other names such as water lily, yellow acoro, cattail lily, cattail or fine cattail.

It can reach a meter in height and a half meter in width, and has light green leaves that reach a maximum of one meter in length. Its flowers are yellow and beautiful, about 8 centimeters like almost all lilies, with 3 fallen outer petals and 3 erect inner ones. It blooms from the beginning of spring until the beginning of summer, and bears capsule-shaped fruits. If you want to know the details about the cultivation and care of the yellow lily find out below in this EcologíaVerde article.

Basic care of the yellow lily

These are the yellow lily care What to keep in mind to grow it correctly:

Location: It is often used especially next to ponds or in water gardens that have little depth. It can live perfectly both in full sun and in areas of light shade.
Temperature: Being a rustic plant, it can withstand frosts, although it is not recommended that they be many or that they have temperatures below -8ºC.
I usually: It is not very demanding in this sense, and any type of soil to which you add organic matter will do.
Plantation: you must do it in autumn-winter, always leaving about 50 centimeters of distance between each rhizome.
Irrigation: If you do not plant it in water, it will need very abundant and frequent watering.
Pass: it will be enough to add organic fertilizer to the soil before planting.
Plagues and diseases: it is very resistant to all of them, they will only appear if you are very careless and do not pay the minimum amount of attention to them.
Multiplication: the best option is to do it by dividing the rhizomes, either during the fall or when spring begins.