# Green thumbs: How should I over-winter my potted lily?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-thumbs-how-should-i-over-winter-my-potted-lily/801070 "2017-11-08T19:10:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-thumbs-how-should-i-over-winter-my-potted-lily/801070/1 "2017-11-08T19:10:32Z")

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I have a potted lily, which started life as an FTD sympathy plant a few years ago. Because it’s poisonous to dogs, and we have some wild pups, I put it on my mostly-shaded porch this summer and it thrived.

Now that temps have dropped I want to know if it would be okay in my office over the fall/winter. I have a window that allows enough light for my pothos to do really well; what kind of light would a lily require? I don’t want to bring it back in the house with the doggies.