Lilies - planting and care in the open ground

It is hard to find a garden without tender lilies. Florists love an unpretentious perennial personifying purity, chastity. According to experienced gardeners, even a novice will cope with the planting of lilies and care if they adhere to the individual nuances of growing amazing flowers.

When to buy bulbs

The bulb (an important part of the plant) is not only a source of nutrition, but also a way of propagating lilies.

To grow beautiful flowers, you need to purchase large healthy bulbs. They are harvested throughout the year.

• Autumn is the best time to buy a grown crop for spring sowing, so a wide selection of varieties is offered. In addition, many stores make big discounts for pre-orders. The only drawback is to preserve the flower bulbs before planting.
• You can buy planting material in the spring, but the choice is already poorer, since interesting varieties have already been sorted out by lily lovers.
• It is convenient to buy bulbs just before planting. Acquired in the store and immediately planted in the country. But you have to take only the leftovers.
• When planning planting in the fall, bulbs are bought at the end of August, but the assortment is also small. But it will save you from winter storage.

Lilies in the garden

How to choose healthy onions

Bulbs are planted in early autumn and late summer.

Planting material is sold in specialized stores in the spring. When choosing, pay attention to the appearance:

• lack of mechanical damage;
• traces of decay are not visible;
• the presence of at least four roots 4-5 cm long;
• scales evenly colored.

Only from large and healthy bulbs do beautiful lilies grow

Planting Material Processing

Before planting, the bulbs are disinfected, keeping in a bright pink solution of manganese potassium for at least half an hour.

Gardeners praise products that accelerate plant growth and disinfect: epin, max. Soaking time of planting material is indicated on the package.

If there are not enough healthy bulbs for planting, gardeners try to treat diseased seeds by first cleaning the damaged areas and keeping them in the foundationazole and karbafos.

Growing Lily Seedlings

Many gardeners believe that it is more convenient to plant flowers in early spring with seedlings. This makes it possible to observe how plants adapt, what problems arise, and it is easier to plan a flower bed.

Seedlings are grown at home in a container or pot.

1. Pour into it disinfected (by baking in the oven) land from the garden plot. You can save yourself from these procedures and purchase ready-made soil in the store.
2. Prepared bulbs are deepened. It is permissible to plant a lot of planting material in one pot, as the plants will be planted in a flower bed.
3. During this period, seedlings are watered 1 time per week. Do not feed. The main thing is to be light.

After 10 days, the bulbs sprout.

Lily from seeds: cultivation and features

Planting with seeds is one of the safest options for propagating flowers, but takes longer. It will take at least four years to grow blooming lilies.

Seed material can be bought at the store or collected independently in healthy colors. It is important to know how quickly the seeds germinate, since seedlings in germinating plants appear soon in the first year, and in slow ones, a small bulb forms in the fall.

How and when to plant lily seeds

Seeds are sown immediately in open ground or in a pot at home. Pre-sowing increases germination.

Seeds that sprout for a long time are planted in late autumn so that they winter. The planting site is fertilized with humus; before the onset of frost, the soil is mulched with a thick layer of foliage or hay. Mulch will save seeds from freezing.

In late February or early March, flower seeds are planted for seedlings. A drainage layer (expanded clay) is poured into the tank, peat or humus is added, then fertile soil.

Seedlings are shown after three weeks at a temperature of 19 ° C to 25 ° C. With the appearance of two leaves, they pick. By September, crops are dived a second time and carried away into a dark room, where the temperature does not exceed 8 ° C.

In the spring, formed small bulbs are planted in the garden in the garden.

Bulb transplantation and division

In August (at the end) or the first decade of September, bulbous perennials are transplanted: tulips, lilies, daffodils, so that they take root before winter.

1. The procedure is carried out every four years.
2. Separated onions are laid in the soil prepared in advance: fertilized with organic and minerals.
3. Then planting material is deepened by 6 cm (this will protect from frost).

There are known types of lilies that need to be divided annually (Asian hybrids). Carefully dig out plants without damaging the roots. Brown and rusty stains flakes are carefully cleaned. Small onions are separated with a knife. Then they are disinfected in potassium permanganate and planted wet in the ground.

Site preparation before planting lilies

The choice of place for planting depends on the variety of lilies. For Asian varieties, sunny areas are required, although they grow on beds with light penumbra. Japanese, calloused, reddish, magnificent lilies are planted in half-shaded places. The stem of the plant in the upper part should be illuminated by the sun's rays, and a shadow is needed for the lower part. For this purpose, low lawn grass or flowers are sown next to the flowers. These types of lilies in the suburbs do not grow without film shelter.

Tubular lilies are unpretentious species. They rarely get sick, they are not damaged by pests. Flowers easily take root in any climate.

There are conditions common for the successful cultivation of all varieties:

• the soil in the selected area should be light, fertile;
• large trees cannot grow nearby;
• the site is chosen high, where water does not stagnate and groundwater does not accumulate;
• a place protected from drafts (in the absence they create artificial protection).

Proper soil preparation

Since the flowers are not transplanted every year, they grow in the same place for several years, paying special attention to soil preparation. The soil is facilitated by making it more loose. Fertilize, increasing the nutritional value of the soil, peat, humus, manure with sand.

Mineral fertilizers are added to the soil rich in organic matter. Dig up no deeper than one bayonet shovel.

The soil is prepared for spring planting in the fall, and in spring fertilizers are applied for flowers planted in the winter.

How to plant lilies

They plant flowers in spring and autumn. Each period has pros and cons. Gardeners prefer autumn planting, because the plant has time to take root, the roots grow stronger, the flower is easier to tolerate winter frosts, spasmodic spring temperatures.

What determines the choice of landing time

Experienced flower growers consider the period until mid-autumn the most suitable time for planting. It depends on the natural course of plant growth.

After flowering, lilies rest (at rest). Then the bulb grows actively, takes root. With the onset of spring heat, a peduncle is formed.

Sometimes the selected variety of flowers forces gardeners to plant lilies in the spring, because not everyone can withstand the harsh winters of the central regions of the country.

Lily care in the garden

To grow beautiful healthy flowers, you need to take care of them. Lily care is not much different from standard care for other flowers:

• watered;
• Loosen, remove weeds;
• feed.

Abundant watering is not needed for lilies, because it will lead to stagnation of water, from which the roots rot. Lack of moisture is also harmful.

In spring, flowers are watered more often, since foliage is growing rapidly. In the summer, watering is reduced. To flowering was long, water 1 time in 7 days. When the flowering is over, watering is added.

How to feed lilies for lush flowering in the garden

So that lilies bloom magnificently, they are fed.

• With the beginning of spring, plants are fed with nitrogen. Ammonium nitrate or urea is scattered on the surface of the soil around the bushes (2 tablespoons per 1 m²).
• If the soil has dried, then watered under the roots (2 tbsp.spoons per 10-liter watering can).
• During the summer, plants are fed twice. During the formation of buds, another fertilizing with minerals (phosphorus, potassium) is carried out. Bred 1 tbsp. a spoon of azofoska in a bucket (10 l) of water. At the end of flowering, lilies are fed again, as the reserves of nutrients for plentiful color are used up.

How to cut flowers correctly

Lilies rarely cut.

Sometimes there is a desire to put a vase with a delicate bouquet at home

In order not to harm the plant by pruning, observe some nuances:

• in the daytime in sunny weather it is impossible to cut flowers, only on a cloudy day in the early morning or evening;
• use a sterile knife, it is treated with alcohol;
• the stem is not cut completely, leave the third part to power the bulb;
• so that the water does not stagnate in the place of the cut after rain, it is made obliquely.

How to prepare a lily for winter

Before the onset of winter cold, flowers are prepared for wintering:

• when the stems are dry, they are cut, leaving at least 10 cm;
• they are fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers (nitrogen is not needed), since after flowering the bulb is formed, it needs nutrition;
• make a thick layer of mulch from foliage, sawdust, hay.

Needles are the most suitable choice for this purpose. It will protect against frost, slugs, mice.

Top cover with material

Lily care after flowering

After flowering, the underground part intensifies, buds form. Food comes not only from the ground. Stems and leaves (due to the process of photosynthesis) also nourish the bulb.

Lilies faded: what to do next

Gardeners who decide to leave flowers for the winter in the ground, cut the stems of the plant, feed, cover.

Pruning Lilies After Flowering

If you cut the stems without waiting for drying:

• the bulb will stop growing;
• the flower does not receive proper nutrition;
• poorly wintering;
• will not give lush bloom next year.

Cut the flowers obliquely with alcohol-disinfected tools: secateurs, scissors.

Do I need to dig lilies for the winter

Depends on a number of reasons:

• if you want to propagate the plant;
• the variety has poor frost resistance;
• the signs of the disease are visible on the flowers (the stem blackens, rot has appeared);
• lilies began to fade.

There is no consensus among experienced gardeners: do you need to dig bulbs. But once every 5 years, when you need to dig up lilies, be sure to transplant to a new place.

Collection and storage of planting material

Dug bulbs carefully inspect, sort, process:

• wash away dirt with warm water;
• sick and damaged roots, dried scales are cut off;
• disinfected with potassium permanganate (weak solution), foundationazole or karbofos;
• dried in a place inaccessible to the sun;
• placed in containers (wooden or plastic), covered with sand, sawdust.

Store planting material in a cool room, for example, a cellar at a temperature not exceeding 4 ° C.

If there are few bulbs, they are stored in a refrigerator, but first in a film, then wrapped in wet canvas.

Lilies: planting and care in the open ground in the Urals and Siberia

In the harsh climatic conditions of the northern regions of the country, caring flower growers successfully grow lilies. The main thing is the right choice of variety, knowledge of how to care for lilies in the conditions of a short cold summer.

For breeding in Siberia, Asian and LA hybrids are suitable: Snezhana, Alaska, Nochka, Spark, Navona and other varieties. Suitable pink lilies that are resistant to severe frosts: Marlene, Fermata, Lorena, as well as folk orange, Störntiger.

In the Urals and Siberia, flowers are planted in the spring and autumn.

Bulbs are dug on a flowerbed only in warm land, when frosts are no longer terrible (second half of May). When planting in the spring, the flowers take root, take root, grow green, but they can bloom next summer.

If the variety is frost-resistant, when planted in the fall, the bulbs take root, safely winter. Caring for flowers is no different from traditional care.

Features of growing lilies in the northern regions

With the right choice of a variety that is resistant to cold, temperature changes, growing lilies - the process is the same as in the southern regions. But there are still some nuances.

It is advisable not to leave the bulbs for wintering in the ground. Despite the shelter, they can freeze. And if gardeners do not dig bulbs, they always cover them with a layer of spruce branches. They throw a lot of snow, because snowdrifts are an excellent covering material.

Lily diseases

The onions of flowers like to eat mice, juicy stems - slugs. In addition, lilies are susceptible to fungal, viral diseases.

Botritis, or gray rot - a common lily disease, manifests itself on the lower leaves, then quickly spreads throughout the flower

The causative agent of gray rot lives in the bulbs of plants, why it is so important to disinfect them. The first symptoms are the formation of round brown spots, which eventually become a rusty coating and covers the entire plant.

Having discovered the disease, they immediately begin treatment with Bordeaux liquid, fungicidal preparations: discor, oxychrome. The treatment is repeated after 10 days.

Why do lilies fall off buds without blooming

There are many factors influencing bud dropping:

• water scarcity. Flowers lack especially on hot days and get rid of buds, parts of greenery;
• fungal disease. Because of him, the flowers also drop buds that have not had time to open;
• botritis (gray rot), spotting. Excess moisture causes decay of all elements of the flower. The buds are rotting;
• nematode. Because of this worm, the buds dry out, the foliage begins to fall off as the insect drinks the plant sap;
• lily flies, fire bugs.

When the first signs appear, you need to find the cause and treat the plants so as not to lose flowering.

Lilies have brown leaves: what to do

The appearance of rusty and brown spots on greenery is caused by damage to the plant by a fungal disease.

• First, spots cover the edges of the leaves, look wet. Over time, they dry out, move to stems, buds.
• If the disease was noticed at the initial stage, you can try to save the lily. With a complete defeat of the plant, there will be no flowering.

Frequent loosening of the soil near the plantings, especially in rainy weather, will reduce the risk of the disease.

If brown spots are already visible:

• affected leaves are removed, burned;
• completely infected plant is cut off, a stump is left no higher than 5 cm;
• lily and place of growth are sprayed with Bordeaux liquid or other means containing copper;
• add mineral fertilizers (phosphorus, potassium) under the root;
• sprinkle ash on the plant.

If the disease manifests itself annually, then the place for growing lilies is not suitable, it is time to change it.

Why do lily leaves turn yellow

Yellowing of foliage occurs for a number of reasons. Home is inadequate care. Others:

• lack of water. It is necessary to water the flowers on time, especially on hot days;
• too frequent planting also causes yellowing of the leaves, the plant lacks oxygen and nutrition;
• excess water is also harmful as a deficiency, due to which the foliage turns yellow;
• not enough or too much fertilizer;
• flowers experience iron hunger;
• from fungal, viral diseases, the leaves turn yellow.

You can protect the lilies from yellowing, if the cause of the occurrence is established.

How to process lilies

Thickened plantings, weeds, inadequate care for flowers lead to diseases. Careful flower growers begin the fight against diseases, insect pests from the time of planting.

The most effective method of protection is prevention. Plants need to be inspected more often to notice the disease or insects that have flocked to the lush stems of lilies in time.

Pest protection

There are up to a dozen dangerous lily lovers. The most common ones are:

• leaf twisting indicates a spider mite. Spray with a phytoerm, an actellic;
• Squeak beetle is clearly visible on the leaves. Against it, flowers are sprayed with decis, karbofos;
• lily fly lays eggs in buds. Processing is required three times. Apply kalbofos, ditox;
• the bear feeds on roots, bulbs, damaging them, leaving numerous holes in the ground. Thunder or grizzly are poured into them. The same remedies will help from the larvae of the May beetle (chafer).

Lily breeding

Flowers can propagate in several ways:

• bulbs;
• cuttings;
• flakes.

Lily propagation by scales

The method is not quite ordinary, but frequent.

What do the flakes look like?

Flakes are separated from the bulb, planted in the ground, they are rooted. Crops are watered a lot, as a result of which an independent plant grows.

It is advisable to do the procedure after the autumn digging of the bulbs:

1. First, the scales are washed gently with warm water.
2. Disinfected for a quarter of an hour in potassium permanganate.
3. They allow to dry, put in a bag with crushed coal (wood).

For one and a half months they are kept at temperatures up to 23 ° C, later they are taken to a cool place (up to 17 ° C) for a month. After stored before boarding in the cellar or on the shelf of the refrigerator.

The landing hole should be no deeper than half the size of the flakes.

In this way, more than a hundred new flowers are obtained.

Propagation of lilies by cuttings after flowering

When there is little planting material, gardeners, solving the problem of how to propagate lilies, use this method.

1. Cut off the stalk with secateurs after flowering almost at the base. A stick is inserted near the hemp so that the place of the flower is not lost.
2. The stem is cut into pieces of 10 cm, on which the leaves are removed from the bottom to the middle, two short (3 cm) marks (shallow) are made with a sharp knife along the handle.
3. Dipped in a root-forming agent (any) for a couple of hours, immediately planted under the film.
4. Within two months, the cuttings will grow their own roots, later small onions will form, which are transplanted to a permanent place.

Flower stalk

Not always the stem is cut into pieces. Dig a shallow horizontal hole, lay the whole stem in it, after making longitudinal cuts. Watered with epin, a mini-greenhouse is constructed over the place. Shelter in winter with peat, sawdust, snow. Onions should form by spring.

Reproduction of lilies with bulbs

A quick and convenient option for forming bulbs. Not all varieties of lilies produce bulbs, but in some (for example, Asian hybrids, tubular) dozens of buds (air bulbs) form during flowering. This is the bulbs.

What do the bulbs look like

When the buds are fully ripe, they are separated from the stem. They sometimes form roots and even leaves.

Buns are collected until they crumble (August-September), sent for storage until spring planting or planted immediately in the fall.

Lilies are noble flowers. They will give a unique flowering to the uniqueness and attractiveness of the garden plot and become an adornment of any landscape.