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  1. Elena SHALIMOVA, Orenburg

    My grandmother in the village, where I spent as a child every summer, grew up beautiful small lilies. Only she called them locusts for some reason. Now my grandmothers are no longer with us, and I want to plant locusts in my dacha in memory of her. Are they really called that?

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    • Elena

      Saranka, or curly lily, or Turkish lily, is one of the most common lilies in nature. Due to its unpretentiousness, the plant is found almost everywhere. Locust breeds both in a vegetative way (dividing bulbs and rooting scales), and generative (using seeds). If the lily has 2 flowering stems, then it has an adult bulb, from which the daughter budded. Bulbs in August divide, forming 2 independent copies. But such events are carried out once every 1-3 years, since the bulbs grow quite slowly. Therefore, locusts are often propagated by rooting scales.
      Immediately after flowering the bulb is excavated, the outer scales are separated. They are buried in boxes with sod-humus soil, and peat is covered from above with tops. The boxes are covered with a film and placed in a cool, shaded place. By the beginning of autumn at the base of the scales is formed by 1-2 bulb-babies with roots and the first leaf. They are planted on a permanent place in the open ground.
      The sowing of the saranka seeds is also effective. Seeds mature annually in early August. They are sown under winter or early spring. The locust has an underground type of germination, so beautiful flowering plants you can see only in 3-4 years.

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