Caring for your Calla Lily depends on where you live, or what hardiness zone you're in. The calla lily is not hardy in many zones, and will die in the winter if it isn't dug up and stored in the winter. The coolest temp it will live through is 50-55 degrees F. It should be dug when the leaves turn yellow or when foliage is damaged by frost. Store the rhizome (root thing) in sphagnum peat moss or vermiculite in a cool dark place.

In our climate the zantedescha lilly (calla lilly) is an indoor plant.

You can plant Calla's in the full ground or in a container. When you plant them in the full ground you must keep the ground very moist. If you want to plant the Calla's in a container you must keep the ground a little bit moist.

Calla's can grow in the half shade and also in the full sun. In the summer you have to give the Calla's a lot of water.

After flowering you can cut the blooms from your Calla back, not to far but above the leaves.

Calla lillies need shade and no frost, they don't really like cold. Bring them in when it gets cool in the fall, let tops dry out and store bulbs, tubers etc. or, treat as a housplant with moderate indoor light, (you don't need grow lights). (Leave out all year round in warm climates, zones, 8-. Keep in the shade outside, fertile soil. moist but not wet, if using for cut flowers cut stalks near base.

I've got calla Lilly's, white, black and pink. They're my favorite flower. They are easy to grow. In answering some of these questions, I'll explane the prosses they go through, through-out the year.

First, if you move or re-pot or split the callas they die back, not dying, but only to rid of shocked leaves. They quickly grow back. Health and new. All during the winter, I had healthy tall leaves. In the White calla garden, when spring hits, I had flowers galore. They seem to only last till the hot sun comes, around June. Always cutting the old leaves and ugly flowers, makes the calla's look fresh. That also help the groth of new flower and leaves.

After the spring flowers have opened, you'll have leaves falling, and new ones comming up from under. Cut the old ones back. Leaving any flowers and new leaves. The bulbs under the ground are multipling. So you will have more next year. I have my white callas in full sun. They really love it. I water every day, keeping the groung moist, but not wet.

I live 40 miles in land from San Fransico, so it gets pretty hot,In the summer, It's never under 70. The winters are as low as 30%. Always clipping my callas of old flowers and leaves is the secret to a beautiful and happy plant.

Now the pink callas I have in a pot, and they Hate the sun. They were dormant during the winter. The leaves died back. When spring came, I gave the pot some full sun to boost it, into growing. As soon as the flowers came up, I moved it to the shade. I'll have double the flowers next year. I have the bulbs in a pot with Asian Lillys. There happy being watered daily, but not wet.

The black callas were here when I moved in my house three years ago. There in the shade, and grow close to the grund. Only 8 inches high. Spreading just like a bulb. I've had two flowers in three years. I think that's why the are $44.00 a bulb.

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