Little help & Advise

hi guys, i love spending time in the garden and still learning how to look after it, i have three pic`s below i have taken today, the 1st is my bearded iris its flowered and the head has fell off, so what do i do with it next?


the second are some lillys i bought from focus buy1 get one free, i have put them in 2 pots, they are still flowering for now, but what should i do with them when they have fell off?


and the last im not sure what this is but each yaer it does the same, grows so high the heads are so heavy they just bend over and after a few days willt and the heads fall off like in the picture, any advise would be great as to what i do next with them ready for next year?


thanks a lot for your help....:gnthb:

 

Scooby, With the Iris, cut out the flower stems and let the plant build up energy for next years flowering. The lilly, once it`s finished flowering, again, cut out the flowering stems, then let the plant grow on until it dies back. The 3rd plant is a Paeony, you can stake the flowers to keep them upright. Once they`ve finished, again, cut out the flower stems.:gnthb:

 

cool thanks for you info iris is sorted thanks, when you say cut out the flower stems on the lilly, do you mean just cut the dead heads off and leave the rest of the stems?.. also at any point towards the end off the year do cut them down to the ground? like the iris over the last few years the the leaves have wilted so i have cut them off is this right to do? many thanks :cnfs:

 

With the Lillies, yes, just dead head them. Sorry for not making it clear. With the Irises take out the flowered stems. Then let the plants die back naturally.

 

thanks daitheplant :gnthb: as i have a very bad memory lol, what im doing is saving my pictures and adding a note to them on how to keep them if you know what i mean so each year i can just take a look in my album and remember what to do....:o

 

It`s always good to keep a record of what you do in the garden.:gnthb:

 

I keep a record too! I've got orange Lillies exactly the same as yours Scooby (and some white ones and some yellow ones too). I got them last August from a local garden centre, they were just finishing and it was about £1 for 10 pots of Lillies (each with 3 bulbs in it) - what a bargain. They have all grown well, except wher they are a bit shaded and where some have been partially eaten by caterpillars and 2 funny little red bugs (like ladybirds, but without the black dots). We also think we found some bug poo on the leaves - yuk, little brown blobs!

I didn't know what to do when they finished flowering. I now know. Thanks daitheplant!