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3,000-4,000 varieties grown outside
The lovely lily
The Wiegersmas enjoy beauty around them at work, as
they propagate bulbs for retail and grow lilies for wholesale
at their RR1, Bluevale home, under the name Village and
Farm Brand.
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probably be about 3,000-4,000 of the
lilies in bloom this year.
"We often have people just stop to
look," says Arnold.
The flower commands that kind of
attention, says Margy. "They are
spectacular. They have a presence.
They make a statement."
Growing the garden bulb to be
marketable takes about three years,
Arnold says. "People may think
bulbs cost a lot, but it's been three
years to get it there." Some of the
new varieties can take seven to 10
years. "To be a proven hybrid, repro-
ducing over and over again, could
take that long," he says.
Once the bulbs are in the ground,
however, people get what they pay
for. Lilies are easy to grow and easy
to care for, the Wiegersmas say.
"And they multiply so you get a nice
bunch after a few years," says
Margy.
The Asiatic and L.A. hybrids
bloom for about a month in late June
or early to mid-July. "However, the
more buds the longer they will
bloom," says Margy, adding that it
could be up to eight weeks. Orientals
bloom in August.
All of this relies on a number of
variables, the Wiegersmas note, such
as sun, moisture and the time of
planting.
As the Orientals are not as cold
hardy as other hybrids, they require
mulch over the winter. All lilies like
sunshine. "But if you find that a spot
is shadier then when you originally
planted them and they are not
blooming, just transplant them to a
better location in the fall."
The best time for this is October to
have the plant resume its normal
cycle. However, Margy says, if
planted in the spring, while there
would be less bud, and it would
bloom later, it would self-correct the
next year.
With the fundraiser which ends in
time for people to get those bulbs in
the .ground in April the Wiegersmas
hope for a busy year. Arnold jokes,
"We want to run out of bulbs."
The couple's long-term goal is,
according to Arnold, "to see 10 acres
of lilies in bloom. In Holland you
would have that."
Farm injuries traditionally peak
during the summer and fall, in
association with the times when
field work intensifies. Sixty-four
per cent of work-related facilities
and 59 per cent of hospitalized
injuries occurred during the summer
and fall (July to December).
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