Most often, summer residents are engaged in breeding tiger lilies. After all, few people know the fact that lilies from the “Asian hybrids” family feel wonderful almost everywhere. It is thanks to this species that it is possible to grow lilies in Siberia and other regions of the North.
This variety is so diverse that its color has more than a dozen shades: from cherry, pink and apricot to bright yellow and straw. Most of them still have on the petals jewelry in the form of purple dots.
Lilies: planting and care in Siberia
It should be noted the important advantage of the varieties of "Asian hybrids." They can easily overwinter even in the open field, without warming. They are unpretentious and tenacious even in 40C frosts.
Such varieties of lilies, “Olga”, “Aelita”, “mountain ash”, “night”, “blade of grass”, “cherry” also take root well. In general, most of the varieties are bulbous, which means that they form small onion stalks in the axils of the leaves on the stem, which simplifies their reproduction.
So, we study lilies. Landing and care in Siberia they do not require any specific knowledge, everything is quite simple. Children from the stems should be harvested as they mature, and planted at the end of August or in the first week of September. The earth needs to be prepared, it must be loose with the addition of sand, ash and rotted manure.
How to plant lilies? Landing and care in Siberia are not particularly different from the same actions in other regions and are made as follows. We make small pits, up to two centimeters deep, and plant the children in them, adhering to the 10x10 scheme, water abundantly. Everything, before the cold weather begins, it is advisable to mulch the soil with humus and peat crumb.
Before the severe frosts come, our children will take root and gain strength, and with the advent of spring, the gardener will be pleased with several elongated leaves issued towards the sun. However, it should be borne in mind that only a year later such lilies will bloom.
Landing and care in Siberia involve the determination of plants for permanent residence in the fall. Sleeping onions in the fall, after the first flowering, can be transplanted to more convenient places by digging to a depth of 10 cm, at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Such a transplant does not threaten the bulb, because it is in hibernation. You can do this in the spring. The roots during transplantation are shortened by half.
Features of the root system of lilies
The subarctic roots of the flower grow from the base of the base and there are one and a half seasons. Their purpose is to fix the plant in the soil and its nutrition. The supraorbital roots develop in the spring, along with the stem, and die in the fall with it. They allow the flower to drink from the upper layers of the soil, so loosen the earth around the flower carefully.
It must be remembered that lilies do not like stagnation of water. They can put up with a small shadow, in the sun they bloom luxuriantly. As soon as the first seedlings appear in the spring, you need to pour them with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, and loosen the ground. After such procedures, you can scatter urea on the surface of the soil per 1 sq. M - matchbox. Once a month, you can feed the flowers with phosphorus or potash fertilizers. Brown stains on foliage are cleaned with preparations containing copper.
Now you know how to plant lilies in Siberia, you know how to properly care for them. It remains to wait for autumn and take the first steps to grow this noble flower. Good luck