Main groups and popular lily varieties
In accordance with the international systematization of these beautifully flowering perennial bulbous plants are divided into 9 groups:
Asian - include 5 thousand species. Differ unpretentiousness and winter hardiness, the flowers do not smell.
Curly - there are 200 species. The name was given thanks to inflorescences, reminiscent of a candelabrum with drooping heads.
White - includes 30 kinds. They differ in a wonderful smell, they can have a pale yellow color.Very capricious.
South American - there are 140 species. Flowers are very original brightest exotic colors, often decorated with a two-color black crab. Enough picky.
Long-flowered - have an elongated shape of the bud with direction to the side or down, Extremely fragrant. In the garden criteria are often tormented through viral diseases, more like greenhouse crops are grown.
Tubular - have a corresponding shape reminiscent of a long gramophone flower, collected from dense wax petals. Capricious, need shelter for the winter.
Oriental (eastern) - a countless society has 1,300 species. Capricious,demanding of heat, often afflicted with diseases.
Interspecific modifications - combine within themselves the best properties of individual groups. Very beautiful and exotic. Between species acquired as a result of crossbreeding, LA-hybrids, OT-hybrids and LO-hybrids with large flowers in front of 25 cm for the sake of forcing are more popular.
Natural future - play a major occupation in the development of new species. In natural conditions, these herbaceous plants are everywhere widespread in the temperate latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere: in the Mediterranean, in the southeastern part of Central America, in the Land of the Rising Sun, in China. The most widespread in the middle latitudes were Asian lily modifications. Lilies are one of the finest representatives of the bulbous genus. They belong to the family of daylilies and act as relatives of curvature, grouse, flowers
Asians occur through natural species of Siberian lilies, such as the Daurian and Tiger, and therefore are more winter-hardy and adapted to less than suitable climatic conditions. Other groups of lilies, such as eastern, tubular or curly, require more careful care.
Between varieties of Asian hybrids, varieties differ:
"Marlene"- the petals of a caressing pink color. It is famous for its abundant flowering.
"Landini"- a beautiful maroon mote with a height of more than a meter.
"Aphrodite"is a double flower with pink petals.
Of the old and time-tested species it is also worth mentioning:"Inchantment"with the colors of rich red-orange color, Destin with delicate petals of lemon yellow color,"Pepriche"with bright red flowers.
Worthy representatives of the Oriental group are allowed to count:"Mona Liza"with luxurious caressing pink flowers,"Tiber"with lilac color flowers framed with a white border, white"Siberia"
Selecting a planting material
For peat enriched and perfectly drained soils, the varieties of the American group and the eastern modifications are developing very well
The best fertilizer for the sake of lilies is humus. However, it should be written with caution: to be an overabundance of food plants begin to"fat."This provokes them to stop development, reduce resistance to diseases and reduce frost resistance. The best analogy of the applied humus is 7-8 kg for 1 square meter.
It is negatively observed for plants that the introduction of weakly-decomposed manure, containing a pathogenic microflora with pathogenic plants.
The land near these beautifully flowering herbaceous plants is forced to have a sufficient number of nutrients, because for one place the plant can live 3 before 5 years. To be dig through the earth it is filled with mineral fertilizers, in the amount of which nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus enter. They are recorded at the rate of 100 gr for a single meter of area. Since the rootlets of the plants go deep enough, the soil before the planting is dug, deepening for 30-40 cm. For the draining of heavy clay soil dust is introduced into its amount
Most of the members of the family of daylilies do not tolerate acid soils, preferring slightly alkaline and slightly acidic soil compositions. For an acidic, perfectly drained soil, the oriental group is comfortable feeling itself. Asians and LA hybrids more adore neutral and humus lands, and tubular lilies have the greatest decorative effect for a poorly alkaline earth with impurities of ash and sand.
Lowering the acidity of the earth helps:
Wood ash - it is entered at the rate of 150-200 gr for 1 sq. m
Chalk - note to be digging for a meter of area according to 300-500 grams.
Finishing the planting material
Onions are examined before planting, discarding unhealthy specimens: they remove the warped tissues, cut rotten scales and dead roots.
The matter examined is washed with a pressure of 20-30 minutes. Then, in order to prevent the development of fungal diseases, they are first kept in a solution of potassium permanganate, prepared in a proportion of 5g for 10 liters of water, and then in a solution of the product of baseazole. As necessary, they can be etched in an insecticide solution for a base of chlorophos and a 1% phosphamide. The root order of these plants dries quite vividly. Therefore, then soaking to dry them is not necessary
Let's select the planting time for plants
The best time for planting - then the blossoming of plants. This is the interval from the end of the age and before the middle of the light. In the case of the acquisition of bulbs in the early spring, planting is allowed to produce as the bottom dries and dries. The belated landing is dangerous to those who are allowed to spoil the young shoots.
Spring planting is more suitable for the sake of late-flowering species, onions are slowly formed. These include LO modifications and varieties of the eastern group: Rio Negro, White Haven, Rialto, Marco Polo. Planting of plants should be governed by the rule that large onions are cut in diameter at 8-12 cm for a depth of 25 cm, and small ones for a depth that is three times the size of the onion itself
The confiscation is a little Halncedon, White and Testaceum. They form a subsoil rosette of leaves, and therefore the discharge of the earth above them is not forced to win 2-3 cm.
By planting onions in a languorous type of soil, the bottom of the pit is covered with a 5 cm layer of sand. In order to protect them through voles, according to the inner walls of the landing pit, lay a wire mesh.
Onions are laid out for the bottom of the pit, setting for an improvised sand pillow, and straightening the roots. They can not be requested and bent upward. The landing place is marked with a peg and sprinkled with earth, slightly ramming. The well is poured with plenty of water and covered with mulch from the bark.
Lilies are very sensitive to the drying of the roots. In order not to fade the onions, while preparing a groove, they better wrap in a wet napkin or hide in a box with wet peat. Delicate young shoots are afraid of temperature changes
In order to protect the young shoots, put onions are covered with plastic bottles with cut out bottoms. For this purpose it is better to extract bottles with wide walls with a volume of 2-3 liters.