Lilies have many varieties. They fit perfectly in every design decision in the design of single beds and the whole garden-park art. Picking varieties with different flowering periods and in a variety of colors, it can be almost the whole summer to enjoy their lush flowering.
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The basic rules of care
These plants are responsive to good care. That they have not lost their decorative effect, you need to create conditions appropriate to their ecological requirements.
Lily can not tolerate water stagnation. For them should choose a place with deep groundwater or create an artificial elevation, so the bulbs were not flooded during the spring snowmelt or heavy rains.
The soil should be light and fertile. During the growing season it needs to be regularly loosened.
If clay soil at the site, the wells lilies do not less than 70 cm depth and the same width. At the bottom of the drainage layer is formed, and on top is filled with a mixture of a light-textured soil, humus and sand in equal proportions. Sandy soil diluted with peat or humus. Excess acidity is neutralized with lime or chalk. At elevated levels of hydroxide ions introduced yard gypsum.
Lilies are demanding to light, but in the morning is transferred easily penumbra. Place them preferable to the south or south-west side. In this case, they will have strong stems and bright coloring of inflorescences.
As with all flowering plants, they need not only nitrogen, facilitate the growth of the green mass, but also in potassium, phosphorus, magnesium and other elements. During the season, they need to be fed several times complex fertilizers. Do not neglect measures for disease prevention.
Every 5 years lilies have to relocate.
Subject to all rules of care for these plants will form healthy bushes with a strong root system and large bulbs. In this state, they can easily outsource the winter in the open field.
How to prepare lilies for winter
Experienced growers recommend to take a series of measures lilies on additional care in autumn to spring, they have pleased you friendly shoots.
So prepare lilies for winter:
- Most of the varieties and hybrids in temperate latitudes well overwinter under the snow. But if the winter with little snow and strong frost, it is better to cover the flower beds. It is not necessary to use a covering material. It will be enough to pour in the bushes to 1 bucket of soil, which in spring can be removed. It is not necessary for this to use the straw as it can become a haven for mice that will damage the bulb.
- Stems and leaves are removed only in the autumn. After flowering, these plants still continues active growing season, at which time the bulb stores nutrients, so feeding and loosening is necessary to continue in the former regime.
- Some lilies hybrids require annual excavation. Otherwise, even if they are successfully outsource the winter in the open field, flower buds still will not. Dig them upon the occurrence of the first frost. The bulbs are purified from the soil and washed with cold water stored in the basement at moderate humidity. It is necessary to constantly monitor their condition. If the scales are beginning to dry out, they are sprayed with water, but closer to spring sprinkle lightly moistened peat for vernalization. When detecting bulbs mold treated with a solution of potassium permanganate and dried.
With such an attitude the plants for a long time will please abundant flowering.
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