Anybody know the name of this flower? Are they low- or high-maintenance?

[raccoon]

[NickB79]

1. Calla lilies. Pretty low maintenance

If you live in a cold climate like I do (Minnesota) you have to dig them up in the fall, but all you have to do is store them in a cool place like an unfinisheds basement until spring. You don't even have to keep them moist; just put the bulbs in a basket or onion bag and leave them alone until replanting in the spring.

[femmocrat]

13. I grow them in a big container and just put the container in the garage in the fall.

They always come back. I don't even dig them out.

I just bought a pot of red and yellow ones at the garden shop. I have them indoors... they have been blooming for several weeks and look like I just brought them home.

Wonderful plants!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. I have tons of calla lilies, they're no maintence in PNW

unless you count thinning them out and finding new places for the babies, lol!

[Honeycombe8]

8. What is PNW? nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. pacific north west is my best guess

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. Pacific Northwest

Portland to be exact It doesn't get too cold here, so we can just leave em' in the ground.

[spiderpig]

3. My favorite flower!

I love calla lilies - their simplicity and sheer beauty.

The only reason I don't have them all around the yard is that I have no talent for gardening and have managed to kill off everything except rosemary.

[raccoon]

4. I saw one of these in a yard on my way to work and it was the first time I had ever seen that flower

in my entire life!

[spiderpig]

5. Wasn't in my yard (LOL)

Wish it were. I just adore them. I did buy some bulbs a few years ago and some actually grew! I'm in CA, so I never dug them up as other posters have suggested, but occasionally one will poke through the soil outside our door (probably out of spite).

I got married in a t-shirt and jeans, but have had to go to weddings over the years. There are bridal gowns that resemble calla lilies - sleek, simple, classic lines. I'd think if I were forced at gunpoint to buy a wedding dress, I'd have one of those.

[KT2000]

14. Me too!!

I have a nightmare rosemary plant that grows like crazy. When everyone else's died last year, this thing kept going. Can't get anything else to grow but I can't even get rid of that rosemary.

[spiderpig]

15. At least it smells good when you cut it back.

I wish I were as successful with tarragon and thyme.

[KT2000]

16. True!

[spiderpig]

17. Rosemary's delicious, but it's The Walking Dead of herbs

Once you plant it, it just keeps coming back at you.

Like mint (mojito, anyone?). I enjoy mint, but it just started crawling over and under everything.

I adore basil and tarragon, but I've just failed to maintain them.

Thyme was fairly successful until the rosemary ate it.

[lunatica]

6. Georgia O'Keefe painted them

[spiderpig]

7. Those are beautiful.

Simplicity. Elegance.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Famous Kathryn Hepburn movie line: The calla lilies are in bloom again...

From the movie "Stage Door." Watch carefully and you'll see Lucille Ball and Ginger Rogers in the audience in an opening shot.

[Worried senior]

11. I got a bag of 10 of them

for a pretty reasonable price so will try them again. I have dug them up and then forgot where I put them so am not real good at keeping them from year to year.

They are beautiful tho. I also got an elephant ear, it's tropical but you can treat it the same way. Hope I manage it correctly.