Daylilies. Planting and care

Daylily - a flower culture, often found in our gardens. This is usually wild species, although in the world there are many varieties and hybrids of daylilies, whose flowers have a variety of shapes and colors. Daylily - long-term culture, undemanding to the place, climate, care. And along with these advantages, he is very decorative, beautifully masks in the gardens of outbuildings, decorates the fence, defines the landscape zones.

Daylilies, planting and care for them, their decorative and culinary uses are described in the works of the great Chinese thinker Confucius.

Presowing soil preparation

Daylilies, planting and care for which are not difficult, nevertheless, suggest some agrotechnical conditions. Before   How to grow a daylily, you need to decide on a place for planting. These flowers are actively developing and growing in the first five years, and it is during this period that their transplantation to another place is not recommended. This plant tolerates winter well, rarely gets sick, develops well and blossoms in the shade, but large and bright flowers give on sunny places.

The preparation of soil for the daylily consists in digging (to a depth of at least 30 cm), applying organic materials (peat, compost, humus) and mineral fertilizers 9 with a total mass of 100 grams per square meter). If the soil is clayey, heavy, it must be drained, adding sand, fine gravel, peat. This will facilitate the supply of nutrients to the roots of the daylily.

The flower is drought-resistant, too moist soil and stagnant water for it are fatal, so the landing site should be high.

Preparation of planting material

Grading planting material of the daylily can be purchased at specialized stores, but most often gardeners multiply it with rosettes separated from an adult plant. Division of the bush is the most effective method of reproduction.

The daylily grows on one place for a long time, more than ten years. But to divide the old bush is rather difficult, therefore it is better to use a five-year plant for reproduction. At this age the daylily is in the "prime of life".

The bush destined for division is excavated, the roots are dried and shaken off the ground. Carefully, not injuring, it is difficult to separate the intertwined and intergrown roots, but it is possible. If not, they are cut with a knife. Each landing rosette should be a fragment of the root neck with growth points (kidneys).

Split the bush and plant outlets can be throughout the season. The main thing is that by winter the plant is already rooted.

Sockets are placed at a distance of 50x50 cm from each other. An updated daylily will blossom in two years and create an effective, bright curtain.

How to care for daylilies.

Care for daylilies is not difficult, especially with well-conducted pre-plant preparation. On the fertilized, drained, loose soil the daylily practically does not need additional feeding. It can even do without watering if it grows in the middle belt, in north-west Russia, in Siberia, in the Far East, that is, in areas with a sufficient amount of precipitation. But drying out, cracking the soil is unacceptable. In hot weather, in a dry summer, the plant must be watered. Do this carefully, avoiding water falling on leaves and flowers. After watering, you should cover the soil with mulch. For this purpose, there is grass, sawdust, peat.

Over the many years of the life of the daylily, its winter hardiness can often be experienced by very severe or little snowy winters. To the daylily does not become cold, under winter it should be covered with lapnik, fallen leaves, sawdust. In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, the covering material should be removed.

Wild-growing, natural daylilies, planting and care   For which the most inexperienced flower grower, have a limited color palette. Numerous varieties and hybrids, bred by breeders, undoubtedly have better decorative qualities, but such daylilies, planting and care for them are more laborious. They are demanding of agrotechnics, more susceptible to disease, less cold-resistant.