Always garden-lily looks elegantly in the garden, the planting of these elegant flowers helps to realize a lot of interesting ideas in landscape design, create effective flowerbeds, alpine slides, cottages and curbs on your own private garden, successfully combining these bulbous plants with other ornamental plantations.
When does the garden lily blossom?
The flowering season depends on the variety, care, age of the bulb and the climatic zone. In temperate latitudes it begins in the first days of July and lasts until mid-September. Such garden plants, like the lilies of Asian hybrids, blossom first. They have a period from awakening sprouts to flowering lasts no more than 90 days. Ten days later, we are pleased with the graceful inflorescences of LA hybrids and OT-hybrids. Eastern hybrids develop 100-140 days and bloom by the end of the season.
Varieties of garden lilies
The best way for a florist who loves garden lilies is to plant and leave on a site of different varieties and hybrids. There are several dozens of wild and cultivated species of this perennial and over three thousand varieties. The bulbs are spherical or ovate, up to 30 cm in diameter. The stems differ in height depending on the variety, rising 2.5 m above the ground with good care. The leaves of the lilies are beautiful, they can form a rosette near the roots or grow spirally around the stalk.
The garden lilies are famous for its spectacular views, quality planting and care helps to obtain from 8 to 30 cylindrical, cone-shaped or umbellate flowers with good grades on the peduncle with a life expectancy of up to 9 days. There are scarlet, pink, purple, white, apricot, bicolor flowers. Delicate petals are often decorated with an amazing border or pleasing with a whimsical coloring with spectacular overflows, more decorative features are different terry forms. The color of the garden lily can be varied, except blue.
Types of garden lilies:
- Lily is Asian. It is famous for its winter hardiness and unpretentiousness, it is easy to care for, it is well divorced by children and with the help of scales. There are "bulbous" lilies with air bulbs on the stems. The shape of the flower in Asians is predominantly chalmoid or cup-shaped, they are up to 20 cm in size. Popular varieties of Asian species: Adeline, Blazing Dwarf, Flora Plain, lily Tigrovaya, lily of David, lily Maksimovich, lily Dutch, Fata Morgana (terry), Butterfly Pixie (miniature) ).
- Curly hybrids (lilies Martagon). A distinctive feature of this species is chalmovidnie drooping flowers with the original turned back petals. They are frost-resistant, care-free in their care, they are quite resistant to viruses and putrefactive bacteria. Popularly used curly hybrids - Manitoba Fox, Claude Shride, Martagon Album, Sunny Morning, Mrs ROBackhous.
- American hybrids. Plants are powerful, the stems reach a 2-meter height. The shape of the flower is varied, but more often chalmoid. The disadvantage of the species is slow reproduction at home due to frequent diseases during transplantation. Garden American lilies planting and nursing love in a hot climate with mild winters, in our zone they have become less widespread.
- Condidum hybrids. The ancestors of these flowers were white royal lilies and European varieties. A distinctive feature of these hybrids - fragrant flowers in the form of a wide funnel. Scales on them on the bulbs near the stem grow in the form of rosettes of leaves. The most popular hybrids are lily Apollo, lily Madonna and Terracotta lily.
- Tubular lily hybrids. Flowers are frost-hardy, multiply easily and get sick a little. Their ancestors are Asian forms. There are several types of tubular lilies - plants with a tubular flower, cup-shaped, drooping and stellate. Interest in the fans are the following varieties - Sulfur Queen, Mimosa Star, Gwendolyn Anley, Black Dragon, Sulfur Queen.
- Eastern hybrids. Plants of Asian descent are famous for good frost resistance and spectacular flowers of various shapes. Disadvantages - a long period of ripening bulbs and poor resistance to disease. Popular varieties are Barbados, Africa, Ascari, Aurora, Little Fairies, Anais Anais, Allegro.
- LA hybrids. They are distinguished by strong stems, resistance to frost and disease. Their flowers are larger than those of Asian varieties, with a delicate aroma, there may be a variety of shades. Widespread varieties - LA 'Ice Diamond', LA 'Party Diamond', LA 'Samur', LA 'Freya', LA 'Formosa'.
- OT-hybrids. Plants are removed by crossing tubular and eastern forms, they have large funnel-shaped or cup-shaped flowers (20-25 cm). OT-hybrids are excellent for cutting. Interesting varieties are Lilium 'Donato', Big Brother, 'Anastasia', Beverly Dream, Lilium 'Ovatie', 'Scheherazade', 'Holland Beauty'.
Garden lilies - landing
There are both capricious and unpretentious garden lilies, planting and care of the plant largely depends on the variety. Curly hybrids are more suitable for penumbra, Asian, tubular and eastern hybrids love a sunny and sheltered from the wind place. Asking the question, whether it is possible to garden lily on the site chosen by you, be convinced of absence here of stagnation of thawed spring waters that provoke the development of fungal diseases.
Where to plant the lilies in the garden?
Perennial garden plants and lilies can be placed in a common composition. Try to make our beauties harmonize and effectively stand out in the group. After withering the old stems are broken and removed. Daylilies with bells and other herbaceous plant species cover the soil well and do not allow it to dry out. The best option, which adores all garden lilies - planting and care in a place where their heads with peduncles are in the sun, and the roots grow in the shade.
How to plant a garden lily?
In deciding how to plant a garden lily, fungicides and stimulants are used at the preparatory stage. We apply 0.2% solution of Fundazol for disinfection, in which we keep bulbs for about 2 hours, and then immerse them for an hour in Epin. We remove the dead scales and shorten the roots to 5 cm. We plant large garden lilies in small holes with a depth of 20 cm and a diameter of at least 3 bulb sizes. For stunted varieties, the depth of planting is up to 12 cm, the children are planted at a depth of 5 cm. The gap between the adult plants is 20-30 cm, depending on the variety.
Garden plants of lilies - planting dates
For this type of work is best suited for the month of September, at which time the bulb stops growing. In this case the plants take root well and enter the flowering period earlier. The most late date for planting flowers of garden perennial lilies is the second half of October. In spring, experienced gardeners transplant lilies in rare cases, for example, when in the care it is required to urgently update the soil or move the plot.
Garden lily - cultivation
An important role is played not only by the correct transplantation of the garden lily, but also by its protection from frost in winter, and in the rainy autumn from excess moisture. Flowerbeds with lilies cover with a film, ventilating the ground at the onset of dry weather, protecting the bulbs from rot. Before the beginning of snowfalls, the soil is covered with dry foliage or lapnik, mulched with peat. In spring, with the arrival of heat, the film and other shelter are removed.
Soil for garden lilies
The ground before landing is deeply digging, adding to the heavy ground for 1 m 2 along a bucket of sand and peat. Fresh manure garden lily plants are not well tolerated. They will use a rotted compost in the amount of 5-10 kg / m 2 with the addition of 100 g of superphosphate and 50 g of potassium fertilizers. Eastern hybrids like weakly acidic soil, and it harms marigons and tubular hybrids, so for them additionally chalk with limestone or wood ash in a volume of up to 0.5 kg / m 2 is added to the ground.
How to grow garden lilies?
This plant is easy to breed at once in several vegetative ways, understandable in the care of even the beginner-florists, who first encountered these beautiful flowers. Seeds multiply them less often. It takes a lot of time to grow a full lily from the seed, although the amateur gets in this case at once a lot of healthy material for planting. The vegetative method is often chosen, using cuttings or parts of a bulb.
The main ways of reproduction of garden lilies:
- Seed reproduction.
- The division of the nest of a lily is reproduction by children growing on the bottom of an old bulb. A new nest is formed every 3-4 years.
- Breeding lilies bulb-babies, growing under the ground around the stem. The department is produced without affecting the mother plant.
- Reproduction by bulb bulbs in a moist substrate. For work use large external plates, which after separation are disinfected, washed, dried and germinated.
- Reproduction of lilies by cauliflower bulbs formed in most Asian hybrids.
How to care for a garden lily?
When caring for garden lilies in the spring, we first remove the shelter in time, so that the shoots normally come to the surface and harden under the sun. Loosening is done by small rakes after the appearance of all the plants from the ground. By negligence it is easy to damage seedlings, which leads to negative consequences. Ill bulbs do not wake up or begin to form vigorously babies.
Care for the garden lily - watering
Many newcomers are poorly oriented in the matter of what the garden lily loves with proper care at the flower garden, often flooding the flower beds with excess water. Experts advise to moisten the soil at the depth of planting the bulb. With small surface waterings, we get a crust on the ground, and stagnation of the liquid leads to decay of the bulbs. Benefit brings joint with the lilies planting undersized perennial plantations, their foliage prevents evaporation of moisture and obscures the roots.
How to feed garden lilies?
From early spring to the flowering period bulbous plants require additional nutrition with mineral components. Top dressing of garden lilies is made by nitrophic, urea , superphosphate, complex preparations for Kemira- type flowers. Spring fertilizers contain more nitrogen, autumn - potassium and phosphorus. Flowers are responsive to foliar top dressing with complex compounds and watering with infusion of wood ash (100 g / 10 l of water). With good care and top dressing you will not be bothered by the question of why the garden lilies do not bloom on the site.
Diseases of garden lilies
Manure during care is forbidden to make, planting bulbs in the ground with fresh humus, rich in pathogenic microflora, leads to frequent illnesses. In the question of why the leaves of the garden lily often turn yellow, several reasons can be blamed. There are bacterial infections that cause brown spots and the death of leaf plates, against them, the treatment with fungicides. In the fight against rust, sulfur dust and copper-containing preparations are used.
If the space around the veins turns yellow, then we are dealing with chlorosis, it is treated with iron vitriol and fertilizing with complex fertilizers. Often when leaving flowers suffer from fusariosis, they get rid of infection by pickling bulbs when planting with a solution of "Fundazol". The development of botrytis fungus, which manifests itself in wet years, is difficult to stop. Affected bulbs are excavated, discarded, healthy material is processed in fungicides ("Maxim") and transplanted to a new site.
Pests of garden lilies and struggle with them
On the flower bed often dangerous pests of garden lilies, requiring attention of the gardener. Aphids, lilac beetles and their larvae damage foliage and buds. They are destroyed by "Aktara" or "Aktellikom". Against the larvae of the May beetle and the bear, they use "Thunder", "Medotox", "Boverin" and other baits. From mice, it helps to cover the bulbs before planting with Vishnevsky ointment, kerosene treatment. Shoots with leaves are saved by planting in special containers or baskets for bulbous plants.