When to replant lilies: summer, autumn, or spring?

The popularity of lilies can be compared to the popularity of the queen of roses. This flower has accompanied man since ancient times.

Today, lilies are grown by professionals, for whom they are the basis of business activity and material well-being; breeders from all over the world are working on it; it is in demand both in amateur floriculture and in small family businesses. You can grow flowers successfully if you know the features of their structure, development cycle, how and when transplant lilies.

Content:

• Botanical features of lilies
• What you need to know about lily bulbs
• Replanting lilies after flowering
• Features of spring transplantation of lilies

Botanical features of lilies

Lilies are a genus of plants from the large Liliaceae family. Lilies are monocotyledonous bulbous plants. Lilies reproduce both vegetatively and by seeds. When propagated by seeds, the plant blooms no earlier than the fifth or sixth year, so in amateur gardening, lilies are most often propagated using bulbs.

Currently, there are about a hundred wild species. They can be found in the countries of East Asia, Europe, North America, and India. More than 3 thousand cultivated varieties have been bred. Life form is a perennial herbaceous plant. The height of the above-ground parts ranges from 0.2 m to 2.0 m. The leaves are narrow, usually lanceolate or ovate in shape.

Can form a root rosette. They are located whorled or alternately on the stem.The stem is green, and brown and purple colors are also found. The perianth is formed by six free petals, straight or bent back. Lily flowers are located on the tops of shoots singly or collected in inflorescences from two to several dozen.

Flowers lilies may take the form:

• tubular
• bell-shaped
• funnel-shaped
• turban-shaped
• goblet-shaped

Lilies differ from many bulbous relatives in that, in addition to the usual bulb, which is located underground, they have buds, with the help of which the flower reproduces independently or they serve as planting material for planting lilies on the site. They are located in the axils of the leaves.

Despite the fact that a lily can be planted with buds (bulbs), such a plant will begin to bloom after two to three years, or with seeds, flowering will occur after five years; most often, underground bulbs are used as planting material.

What you need to know about lily bulbs

The underground part of lilies is represented by the bulb and roots. Most often, the roots are located in two tiers, the first tier of roots are above the bulb; these are stem roots. The lower tier of roots extends from the bottom of the bulb - these are bulbous roots. Each lily bulb has a bottom, which, in fact, is a shortened modified perennial shoot and scales - modified leaves. The type of lilies can be determined by the shape, size and color of some bulbs.

Video about transplanting lilies at different times of the year:

It is important to know that after three to four years, and in some species after five to six years, the bulbs form daughter bulbs with its own root system.Since most lilies grow in one place for up to six years without transplantation, a whole nest of several large bulbs can form in place of one bulb. In Asiatic lilies this occurs after three years, in other species - after five to six years. Thus, you can use the following for planting and replanting lilies:

• daughter bulbs
• scales from the main bulb
• separated nests

For the process to be successful, you need to follow a few simple rules and choose the right time for transplantation.

Replanting lilies after flowering

Transplanting lilies depends primarily on the variety and flowering period. Early flowering lilies will be ready for transplanting in the summer, immediately after flowering. If the plant has finished blooming by the end of June, then by mid-August the bulbs can be replanted. Later varieties are ready for transplanting approximately five to six weeks after flowering.

Formally, you can start replanting as soon as the last flower withers. However, very often at this time the bulbs have not yet recovered and it takes some time to allow it to get stronger. Therefore, you should not rush and replant lilies immediately after flowering, but give them time to lie in the ground. Thus, the best time to transplant lilies is August for early varieties, late September - mid-October for flowers with an average flowering period.

Considering that there is enough time for rooting, and in the ground the bulbs of most varieties tolerate even severe frosts, there is no danger that they will die. But there are late lilies that bloom in September.

During autumn replanting, which is carried out before the soil freezes, they do not have time to take root and, most likely, such bulbs will die in cold winters without additional shelter. Before replanting, the bulbs need to be kept in a solution of karbofos, potassium permanganate and dried in the shade. If replanting is delayed, store them in boxes covered with a damp cloth.

In addition, replanting in late autumn can also affect the timing of flowering in the next season. They may move to a later time. Therefore, under certain weather conditions and other circumstances, it is worth postponing replanting lilies until spring.

Features of spring transplantation of lilies

To replant lilies in spring period, they must be removed from the ground around the second ten days of October. Considering that for spring transplantation, the bulbs must be kept intact and not allowed to dry out or rot, then you need to select healthy and strong ones, without damage or rot. Before sending them for storage, it is better to take measures for disinfection and keep the bulbs for half an hour in a solution of potassium permanganate.

In winter, the bulbs should not dry out, so they should be placed in bags with holes, each row sprinkled with sawdust, previously moistened with water. Storage location - vegetable compartment of the refrigerator, if there are few bulbs, or a cool, frost-free cellar. When replanting in spring, you need to adhere to the same rules as when replanting in summer and autumn:

• do not replant in a place where lilies, tulips or daffodils grew
• priming digs up to at least 40 cm
• planting depth is approximately three times the size of the bulb, on average 12 - 25 cm
• the bulb is laid bottom down
• roots are shortened by half
• the distance between adjacent bulbs is at least 15 cm

In addition to the above rules and conditions for transplantation, when choosing a time for this event, you need to take into account the characteristics of not only the climate in general, but also the weather conditions of the season.