Yellow Calla Lily

Radiant yellow blooms on a unique and stylish perennial! The Yellow Calla Lily (Zantedeschia spp (Yellow Cultivar)) features flowers that look like satiny evening wraps! The curious cup-shaped flowers are incredibly beautiful!

Calla blooms, botanically known as a spathe, appear in late spring to summer on tall stems above fantastic foliage. With a vibrant yellow color and lighter throat, the blooms are accented by a white to yellow spadix in the center.

Highlighted by deep-green, heart-shaped foliage, the striking flowers call butterflies and hummingbirds to your garden! Long green rippled and spotted leaves are just as clean and formal-looking as their blooms!

How to Use Yellow Calla Lily In The Landscape

Natives to South Africa, these perennials enjoy moist to wet soil. Tolerating heat and humidity, they’re the perfect plant to use around a water feature, near ponds or along the banks of streams where they can soak up the moisture! Include in Rain gardens or at the base of your gutters where the tubers will thrive in the extra moisture.

Vibrant flowering plants for formal settings and in blocks or rows, these fashionable plants add a high-style touch to mixed plantings, beds and borders. Line walkways or the edges of garden beds and foundations in sunny color! Create formal rings around potted shrubs and trees for a finished, clean look as edging.

Perfectly sized for container gardening, you’ll enjoy these yellow blooms as thrillers and specimen plants among your patio and balcony planters. Even those in colder climate zones can enjoy these blooms all growing season! Often they can use these as annual thrillers in containers or moved into a greenhouse or enclosed patio for the winter.

Slowly spreading and forming dense clumps, the rhizomes and tubers multiply politely. Filling Perennial, Cottage and Cutting garden beds with yellow chalices! Their formal form creates lovely accents for Meditation and Asian-inspired landscapes as well!

These make for incredible cut flowers in vases. Florists often use Calla Lily as boutonnieres, in bridal bouquets and flower arrangements because of their elegant and simple beauty! Great upright and vertical accent plants, adding a polished look to about any kind of garden bed or bouquet.

Sometimes these can be used as houseplants for the winter with great success! Cold climate gardeners can also dig these tubers in the fall and store them as they would Dahlia or Canna bulbs, keeping them in cool storage in garages or sheds for the winter months.

#ProPlantTips For Care

Yellow Calla Lilies are herbaceous perennials in USDA zones 8-10 Those in the colder northern growing zones won’t miss out! Growing zones 7 and under dig these up in autumn and store them in a cool, dark, frost-free location for the winter, or can use these as a houseplant throughout the cold months. Or simply use them as an annual in planters and patio pots.

Preferring full sun or partial shade, those in the warmer of its growing zones will find these do better with some afternoon shade as relief from the hot sun. If you do plant them in full sun, be sure to provide near-constant access to water.

Calla Lily bulbs require average to high fertility in consistently moist, well-drained soils, so provide regular watering throughout the year and during the dry season. Not particular about what type of soil they’re planted in, as long as it is moist and very well-draining.

A generous layer of mulch helps retain soil moisture as well as insulate the root system from heat and chill. Clean up dead leaves and flowers in late autumn when the plant takes a break from growing.

Yellow Calla Lily is a luxurious perennial to add to your landscape! Easy to grow and with minimal care, this a great choice for an elegant gift or garden addition! Place your order today at NatureHills.com before they sell out!