My mother sent me a basket of plants for my new apartment. One of them is a peace lily, the others are various things that look nice and are growing well, but I don’t know what they are.
I’ve been careful about not letting them dry out, but not over watering them either, and all but the peace lily are doing fantastic. They all live on my balcony and by the end of the day the lily is very droopy and sad looking, although it looks fine and happy in the morning.
Why is this happening with just one of these plants? Is it that it’s too hot out there for it? The balcony gets direct afternoon sunshine, and it’s been quite warm here since I moved. This afternoon after I noticed it droopy, I brough it in to see if that helped it perk up any, and it does look much better now, so I’m assuming the temperature was just too much for it. Is there an ideal temperature for peace lilies? Should I maybe only put it out early in the day, then bring it in before the afternoon?
Thanks
in my dealings with Peace Lilies I have discovered that they don’t like direct sun. They like bright sunny rooms, but indirect sun. they also like to be a little moist. If you repot your plant get one of those pots where you put the water in the bottom. They seem to like that a lot also.
I’ll bring it in, but keep it near the door in the living room where it won’t get hit straight on with the sun. And it needs to be repotted, since the one from the florist was almost too small to begin with. Looks like I’ll head to Wal-mart tomorrow and find one.
I’ve never seen peace lilies as an outdoor plant. It usually flourishes whenever I’ve seen them indoors, typically in an office setting.
And they MUST love water, because a business around here actually takes a very bulbous vase, fills it with water, inserts a Siamese Betta fish, and then floats a peace lily on the top of the water.
I have a very, very large peace lily (named Seymour) and he loves being put into a sink full of water for a nice, long drink. In fact, I have to do this every couple of days or he wilts. They just seem to suck up a whole lot more water than the other houseplants.