Every woman would certainly like to receive a bouquet of luxurious lilies as a present. Their beauty can not leave anyone indifferent. Lily, whose flowers are full of richness of shapes and colors, has always given a special solemnity to any holiday.
These noble plants worthily decorate any flower bed with their large flowers. The most common is a tiger lily, which has large bright orange flowers with many black specks. Plant height reaches one meter. Lily blooms in July-August. Its bulb is quite large, with white juicy scales.
Tiger lily is an unpretentious plant and does not require special care. Reproduction of lilies is done by dividing the nest of bulbs, as well as bulbs, children and individual scales. Planting lilies is most favorable in September. Directly in front of it, you need to dig the earth to a depth of thirty centimeters. It is also necessary to add rotted manure, potassium salt and superphosphate. After planting the bulbs, you need to immediately produce abundant watering of the soil.
For the winter period, lilies are covered with leaves, peat, humus, the layer thickness of which should not exceed fifteen centimeters. For lilies, the soil is well-drained, moist, moderately fertilized, ideal. The place for them should be protected from the winds. Plant care includes loosening the soil, watering it, weeding, and also feeding. After seven years, a place for lilies must be picked up a new one.
The main landing is made in early autumn. In early August, you can begin preparations for this event. The plant is dug up and divided into bulbs. Four- and five-year-old lilies are also transplanted, since the soil is depleted during this period of time, and the flowering of plants weakens. After the tiger lily fades, its bulb becomes loose, loses its mass, the scales become thinner. It needs to be transplanted only after a month and a half. During this time, the bulb will gain strength, elasticity, and also increase in size. However, this is possible in the presence of warm weather, sufficient moisture and nutrition.
If a tiger lily is not transplanted within three to five years, then its bulbs form volumetric nests, which after digging up themselves break up. If they are clean and have intact roots, they just need to be etched in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour. After that, they need to be dried in the shade, cut the roots to five to ten centimeters, and then you can plant.
The soil for planting the bulbs must be prepared in advance, and also moisten it to the required depth. It should be loose, nutritious, permeable. On heavy, moist soils, tiger lily will not grow, its bulbs will undergo decay due to excessive accumulation of moisture between the scales. As a result of this, they die. Using sand, the soil can be made looser. Fresh manure should not be used when growing these plants, as this will lead to a strong growth of the vegetative part and at the same time damage to the formation of healthy bulbs. It will also reduce the winter hardiness of lilies and resistance to various diseases, weakened flowering.
Before planting lilies, you must first take into account the height of the plant, the shape, size and color of the flower. Tall lilies should be planted in the background of a flower garden. Undersized with smaller flowers, you can build a small hill. Penumbra is well suited for normal plant growth. Direct rays of the sun, as well as insufficient watering, lead to drying of the lilies. In this case, they grow low, stunted.
For many gardeners, raising lilies is a particular pleasure, because nothing improves your mood like flowers grown by your own hands.