5 private but critical mistakes in growing a Daylily: turning a beautiful flower into a weed bush
Do you want to see your daylilies beautiful and tidy, completely unlike a semi-wild bush with rare flowers? Then a fiery salute, comrade diligent daylily breeder! Today on the agenda - 4 annoying mistakes that prevent the plant from becoming one of the Most Beautiful inhabitants of the garden.
Daylilies, for all their natural unpretentiousness, are capable of shining in any flower bed. They are ideal candidates for the hands of a lazy grower. But I do not advise you to abuse the undemanding daylily. Everything has boundaries, after all! You can at least try not to annoy the plant by correcting 4 critical mistakes in care.
In the bowels of the flower bed: plant the daylily too deep
Flower growers-diggers will have to moderate their ardor. When preparing for planting a lilienk, you should not dig a mine in your flower bed. It is better to turn the seedling in your hands and figure out how deep to dig the planting hole: the root neck of the daylily is buried by 2-2.5 cm.
It is worth digging in the cut a couple of centimeters deeper - the risk increases that the daylily will pretend to be a hummock and will only drive greens. The "journey to the center of the earth" will end with the flower stalks simply not being able to climb to the surface.
Note to a friend: A deep-planted daylily will bloom over time, when the water for irrigation and precipitation will partially wash out the soil layer.
Convince yourself that the daylily is undemanding to watering
The biggest temptation is to see how well daylilies tolerate drought, to be relieved to draw the fatal conclusion "This means that watering it is not really necessary!"and with peace of mind go to the house where the wife watches" The Magnificent Century "for the fifth time to secretly watch the series, peeking out from behind her, and grumble that "again Turkish nonsense included ".
Citizens, dismissive of watering daylilies, may once again see Alexandra Anastasia Lisowska with a crown, but will not wait for mass flowering. Remember, comrade: daylilies need to be watered immediately, as the soil has dried out by 3 cm. Once with plenty of water. Do not breed a swamp, do not let the desert!
Put in the shade and want to be beautiful
For those who have read on the Internet about the shade-loving plant, I have bad news. Daylily in the shade will be beautiful. But, alas, only as an ornamental deciduous plant. Flowering will be on the C grade.
Note to a friend: Owners of daylilies blooming in the shade can pounce here. I am not saying otherwise. But there would be several times more flowers if the gardener would have guessed to plant a bush in the sun.
Ignore regular transplants
Let's serve garlic. A daylily can be attractive sitting still for decades. But, comrade, do not forget that:
- The daylily grows very quickly in a pile of greenery without form or idea. A plant that looks like a stack of flowing leaves looks beautiful. Their thickets look untidy and unkempt.
- Transplanting a daylily that has sat in one place for many, many happy years is still something to do. It seems that the scent literally digs into the ground with its tenacious roots. It takes tremendous strength and iron nerves to uproot them.
I recommend, comrade, to transplant each daylily bush once every 5 years, combining the procedure with division. And it will be more beautiful, and much easier.
Lack of preparation for winter - reduces the chance of successful wintering
Perhaps the most non-critical error of the critical ones. Daylilies, being very, very tenacious inhabitants of the garden, do an excellent job with frost and do not require shelter.
But, comrade: if you want to keep the plant 100%, especially if it is an expensive variety, do not be lazy and do 2 things.
- Cut the daylily when the cold weather sets in, leaving about 10-15 cm of hemp leaves. Old greens during winter thaws can lead to damping and decay. The risk is small, but there is.
- We piled a bunch of peat, compost, or just dry autumn leaves on the base of the daylily. This will save the roots from possible extreme frosts (what if?), Because due to watering, precipitation and soil subsidence, the root system of our plant is getting closer and closer to the freezing surface.
Do you like daylilies and was this article helpful? Click, comrade, "Thumbs up"! Sincerely yours, Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin, who always puts heaps under daylilies.