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 great 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 coloring has more than a dozen shades: from cherry, pink and apricot to bright yellow and straw. Most of them still have purple dots on their petals.
Lilies: planting and care in Siberia
It should be noted the important advantage of varieties "Asian hybrids". They can easily overwinter even in open ground, without insulation. They are unpretentious and tenacious even in 40С frosts.
Such varieties of lilies as "Olga", "Aelita", "rowan", "night", "blade", "cherry" also take root well. In general, most varieties are bulbous, which means that they form small onion babies in the axils of leaves on the stem, which simplifies their reproduction.
So, let's study lilies. Landingand leaving in Siberia do not require any specific knowledge, everything is quite simple. Children from the stems should be collected as they mature and planted at the end of August or the first week of September. The land needs to be prepared, it should be loose with the addition of sand, ash and rotted manure.
How to plant lilies? Landing and leaving in Siberia are not particularly different from the same actions in other regions and are carried out as follows. We make small holes, up to two centimeters deep, and plant the children in them, adhering to the 10x10 scheme, watering abundantly. Everything, before the onset of cold weather, it is advisable to mulch the soil with humus and peat chips.
Before the hard frosts come, our children will take root perfectly and gain strength, and with the advent of spring they will please the gardener with a few elongated leaves released towards the sun. However, it should be borne in mind that such lilies will bloom only a year later.
Planting and care in Siberia implies 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, digging to a depth of up to 10 cm, at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Such a transplant does not threaten the bulb in any way, because it is in hibernation. You can do it in the spring too. The roots are shortened by half during transplantation.
Features of the root system of lilies
Subbulbous flower roots grow from the base of the bottom and exist for a season and a half. Their purpose is to fix the plant in the soil and feed it. supra-bulbousroots develop in the spring, along with the stem, and die off with it in the fall. They allow the flower to drink from the upper layers of the soil, so you need to carefully loosen the earth around the flower.
It must be remembered that lilies do not like stagnant water. They can put up with a little shade, but in the sun they bloom magnificently. As soon as the first shoots appear in the spring, you need to water them with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, and loosen the ground. After such procedures, urea can be scattered on the soil surface at the rate of 1 sq.m - a matchbox. Once a month, you can feed the flowers with phosphate or potash fertilizers. Brown spots on the foliage are removed with preparations containing copper.
Now you know how lilies are planted 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!
