Growing a Daylily in a Container - Advice from a Recognized Flower Specialist
Contents ✓
- ✓ AMAZING VARIETY
- ✓ IS IT POSSIBLE TO GROW A DAYLILY IN A CONTAINER?
- ✓ ADVANTAGES OF CONTAINER GARDENING IN GROWING DAYLILIDS
- ✓ SO THE TEMPERATURE DOESN'T CAUSE A SHOCK
- ✓ SOIL FOR DAYLILY IN CONTAINER
- ✓ PREVENTION IS THE BEST PROTECTION
- ✓ DAYLILY ON THE WINDOWSILL
- ✓ DAYLILYS: GROWING, PLANTING AND CARE - ADVICE AND FEEDBACK
- ✓ LANDING DAYLILIDS IN POT - VIDEO
HOW TO GROW A DAYLILY IN A CONTAINER
The popularity of the daylily as a garden plant is growing every year. It is appreciated by flower growers, landscapers, landscape designers, florists, decorators, homeowners, summer residents and all lovers of beauty. Modern achievements of breeders in architectonics, complex coloring and flower shape have made it an elite decoration of the collection garden.
However, many flower lovers are not yet familiar with the hybrid daylily and evoke various associations with other cultures. No matter how they call it - lilies, orchids, iris. And along with the growing popularity of a fashionable flower, there is an increasing desire to grow a daylily in a container way. Urbanization processes are increasingly capturing our world, and flower lovers have situations when they have a desire to grow garden plants, but, alas, there is no plot.
AMAZING VARIETY
Daylily is a perennial, plastic, hardy and colorful decorative flower culture. Its adaptation mechanisms make it possible to adapt and successfully vegetate in various agrotechnical conditions in many climatic zones, except for extreme ones (the Far North and deserts). The daylily root system is adapted to accumulate moisture and nutrients, and distribute them in a dosed manner, providing plants with moisture during the drought period. In addition, among the diverse daylilies there are varieties and hybrids of the deciduous and evergreen groups that can vegetate both in a mild subtropical climate and safely survive the frosty winters of the northern zones of the temperate climate zone.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO GROW A DAYLILY IN A CONTAINER?
By its physiology, the daylily is an energetic culture, requiring sufficient moisture and a balanced mineral diet in order to reveal its decorative potential. The quality of daylily flowering depends not only on the agro-climatic conditions of cultivation, but also on the age of the plant, acclimatization after relocation to new conditions, adaptation after division, transplantation, transshipment. The older the plant, the better its rhizome is formed, the larger its volume, the more comfortable nutritional conditions for laying and forming full-fledged, high-quality flowers it can provide.
Morphological (plant habit, flower size, peduncle height) and decorative features (solid, multicolor, contrasting, patterned, complex color and flower shape, different leaf colors) allow the use of daylily hybrid varieties in various types of flower arrangement. All this creates the prerequisites for the successful cultivation of daylilies in container gardening.
ADVANTAGES OF CONTAINER GARDENING IN GROWING DAYLILIDS
Growing daylilies (or other ornamental plants) in containers allows you to green up the site in the shortest possible time, sometimes using areas that are inconvenient or unsuitable for gardening (terraces, rooftops, balconies, paved streets and courtyards, small plots of empty land between urban buildings), decorate park areas and city streets.
Regardless of the condition and fertility of the soil on the site, you can choose the soil mixture for the container, based on the needs of the crop. Point and dosed application of fertilizers allows you to provide the daylily with a balanced diet and get the most out of it in the decorativeness of flowering.
Garden compositions become mobile, and you get freedom in their placement, regardless of the terrain.
When growing plants in containers, there is no need for weeding between rows.
Daylily can be used as a decoration not only during flowering, but throughout the growing season due to its compact habit and decorative foliage.
Additional benefits are offered by container growing of daylilies for garden centers and nurseries selling planting material.
And for lovers of hybridization, limited to small garden plots and gardens located in difficult climatic conditions, growing daylilies in containers allows you to save garden areas, carry out pollination in artificially created comfortable conditions with low insolation under canopies and in greenhouses.
For professional collectors, the container method makes it possible to temporarily keep and acclimatize imported southern soft evergreen daylilies in protected ground conditions.
Daylilies can be grown in containers in climatic zones where their overwintering in the open field becomes impossible. This applies to the collection of thermophilic evergreen varieties bred in the subtropical zone of the United States - the center of world daylily breeding.
SO THE TEMPERATURE DOESN'T CAUSE A SHOCK
In addition to the advantages, it is necessary to take into account the disadvantages of the container method of growing daylilies. The most important and difficult task when keeping a daylily in open ground container conditions is to provide nutrition and maintain its viability. It is also necessary to take into account additional financial and labor costs for containers, sanitation, organization of wintering and overexposure during the frosty period, etc.
In the first place for a comfortable cultivation of daylily in a container way is the temperature regime in the root zone. The root system is limited by the harsh conditions of the flowerpot, and is under the constant influence of changes in the temperature of the external environment. In winter, daylilies must be protected from the cold, to prevent freezing of the root zone. To do this, containers are added dropwise in the garden, large stationary flowerpots are wrapped with covering materials (straw, spunbond), containers with daylilies are removed for overexposure to cellars, storages, winter greenhouses and greenhouses.
Seasonal and sharp daily temperature changes in the summer, overheating of the root system can provoke a temperature shock in the daylily and cause a period of forced dormancy. Then the daylily will shed its foliage and go into a state of saving vital resources, which will significantly affect its decorative effect in the midst of the summer growing season.
To prevent overheating of the earthen clod, it is necessary to carefully select the quality and color of the container. It depends on the terms of keeping the daylily in the container and its purpose. For example, a daylily for landscaping a garden with subsequent wintering in outdoor conditions is best planted in a large voluminous thick-walled flowerpot (20-30 l) made of cement or baked clay, massive wooden boxes and tubs are also suitable. Daylilies on sunny terraces and balconies are best planted in large, but lightweight (for greater mobility) light-colored containers to avoid overheating. A daylily for seasonal sale at the garden center can be kept in a plastic pot with a capacity of 2 liters or more. Greenhouse daylilies can vegetate (bloom, produce seeds and vegetatively reproduce) safely in plastic, wooden and iron containers with a capacity of 5-8 liters.
The quality and composition of the soil mixture also affects the temperature regime. The daylily needs nutritious soil, regular top dressing, frequent watering and surface irrigation, especially in hot, dry summers.
The quality and composition of the soil mixture also affects the temperature regime. The daylily needs nutritious soil, regular top dressing, frequent watering and surface irrigation, especially in hot, dry summers.
See also: Growing daylilies - varieties, care, planting
SOIL FOR DAYLILY IN CONTAINER
The soil for planting a daylily should be loose, light, with a porous structure, provide free access to air and water. It is important that it is permeable, retains moisture for a long time, and does not form a surface crust.
An enriched soil is suitable: 5 parts of humus, 2 - peat and 3 - turf or garden soil. For long-term planting in large containers, we fill the soil mixture with fertilizers: 30 g of superphosphate, 15 g of urea and potassium sulfate - per 10 liters of soil mixture. If garden soils are highly acidic, you can add 1 cup of wood ash. At the bottom of the flowerpot, depending on its size, pour sand or crushed stone of a fine fraction (for drainage).
Throughout the season, the daylily responds well to foliar dressings with master, plantafol, radipharm, kendal, etc. complex preparations: it powerfully increases the vegetative mass and forms large and very decorative flowers.
PREVENTION IS THE BEST PROTECTION
Daylilies in container cultivation, as well as other horticultural crops of open and protected ground, are affected by diseases and pests. The daylily has two main pests that reduce the immunity of the plant and affect the decorative effect and quality of flowering: thrips and spider mites. For the prevention and control of them, it is necessary to carry out regular interval treatments with insecticides and acaricides. As a rule, daylilies affected by pests are more likely to become infected with pathogenic fungi and suffer from rusts and streaks. For the prevention of fungal diseases, regular sanitary cleaning of the daylily from wilted dry foliage will help, and a properly composed soil mixture, comfortable growing containers with good drainage, as well as protecting containers from overheating in summer and from freezing in winter will serve against bacterial diseases of the rhizome.
Reference by topic: Daylilies - planting, care, cultivation and varieties of daylilies - Part 1
SUITABLE DAYLILY VARIETIES
To select daylily varieties for container growing. the following three factors must be taken into account: the resistance of the variety, its high vitality; purpose of container landing; long term. Varieties of daylily adapted for mass gardening and container growing of daylily along roads, in park areas, at the entrance to various institutions should have increased heat resistance, drought resistance and frost resistance. To do this, you can use historical varieties that have been tested by time. They have a high adaptive capacity and wide ecological plasticity.
The famous miniature variety Stella De Ogo (Jablonski. 1975), Pandoras Box (Talbott, 1980), miniature daylilies of the American hybridizer Pauline Henry from the Siloam series (Siloam French Doll (Henry-R., 1978), Siloam Double Classic (Henry-P „ 1985)), as well as Little Grapette (Williamson, 1970), Happy Returns (Apps, 1986), Cranberry Baby (Croker, 1984), Little Christine (Croker, 1987), Brilliant Circle (Sellers, 1984), Blackjack Cherry (Carr , 1995), etc.
Sredneroslye - Autumn Red (Nesmith 1941), Catherine Woodbery (Childs, 1967), Frans Hals (Flory, 1955), Pardon Me (Apps. 1982), Strawberry Candy (Stamile, 1989), Whooperee (Gates-L., 1986) , David Kirchhoff (Salter, 1992), Total Eclipse (Durio-D. 1984), Mauna Loa (Roberts. 1976), Strawberry Fields Forever (Stamile, 1997), Barracuda Bay (Salter, 1996). Border Music (Salter, 1995), Orchid Candy (Stamile. 1994), Daring Dilemma (Salter, 1992), Ed Brown (Salter. 1994). Elizabeth Salter (Salter, 1990) and others.
For container exclusive plantings, where regular care will be provided by a caring gardener, you can use popular varieties, registrations of the late and early 1997s: Sabine Baur (Salter, 2002), Jerry Nettles (Kinnebrew, 2005), Antique Nouveau (Salter, 2000), Big City Eye (Salter. 2003), Carved Pumpkin Pie (Salter. 2002), Cosmic Sensation (Salter. 2006), Alaskan Mist (Stamile, 2005), America The Beautiful (Stamile. 2006), Answering Angels (Stamile, 2007), Cosmic Odyssey (Stamile, 2007), Dixie Highway (Stamile, 2007), Dr. Jerrold Corbett (Stamile, 1999), Victorian Lace (Stamile, XNUMX), etc.
Depending on the vegetative strength of the variety, agrotechnical care, the volume of the flowerpot, the daylily, when grown in a container, may require transshipment, renewal of the soil mixture and division of the bush in the second, third or fourth year after planting.
See also: Daylilies - planting, care, cultivation and varieties of daylilies - Part 2
DAYLILY ON THE WINDOWSILL
Hybrid daylily is a very promising plant for use in landscape design, and its varietal diversity allows it to be used in various types of flower arrangements. Hybrid varietal daylilies of a wide evergreen group are divided into heat-loving (subtropical), cold-resistant and frost-resistant.
And if in the south of Russia in open ground conditions only daylilies of the last subgroup, evergreen frost-resistant (wintering), successfully vegetate, then in protected ground conditions it is possible to grow all heat-loving varieties. All evergreen daylilies in subtropical conditions during one growing season have two or three flowering seasons and a short dormant period from November to February. But even in our climatic conditions in winter at home on the windowsill you can admire the blooming daylily. Dig up an evergreen daylily in your garden in the fall, plant it in a flowerpot, and with good care, it will delight you with the first flower for the New Year holidays.
In the spring, return the daylily to the garden or use it in container gardening using all agrotechnical growing conditions. Deciduous daylilies are not recommended for winter forcing, and evergreen frost-resistant ones - no more than two years. In the future, they need to be planted in open ground, followed by wintering, otherwise the disruption of the seasonal rhythm, biochemical and physiological changes in the plant can weaken it. Subtropical evergreen daylilies in the climatic conditions of southern Russia can be planted in open ground for the summer, and in winter they can be stored exclusively in heated greenhouses or used on the windowsill and in winter gardens as a heat-loving potted ornamental crop.
A daylily in a large flowerpot or tub can serve as a single (solitary) decoration of a courtyard or plot. Small pots and flowerpots will decorate the entrance to the house and refresh the cobbled street. And from containers of different sizes you can make small multi-level flower arrangements. The widest range of sizes and colors of this crop makes it possible to make various combinations, and the correct selection of containers will allow you to maintain harmony and reveal all the beauty and dignity of the daylily. Foreign experience of garden nurseries growing daylily in a container way shows the rational cultivation of this versatile and plastic crop for use in hybridization and trade.
The potential of the daylily seems limitless. The more you get to know this unique flower, the more it will open up its world and show its best features.
DAYLILYS: GROWING, PLANTING AND CARE - ADVICE AND FEEDBACK
DAYLILYS IN OUR GARDEN
Based on my extensive experience in gardening, I can say that daylilies are one of the best plants for our gardens. They are durable, unpretentious, have a wide variety of varieties, look good before, during and after flowering, and their powerful root system does not allow weeds to grow nearby, thereby facilitating the care of the bushes.
ONE OF THE FIRST
On our site in a natural style, species representatives were the first to appear - Middendorf Daylily, which blooms at the end of May and again in September, as well as Brown-yellow Daylily (normal, orange), which forms buds in July. The latter must be looked after, as it grows rapidly and becomes an aggressor, oppressing the more delicate flowers growing nearby.
PLACE FOR PET
Daylilies grow in our garden along paths, along the edge of flower beds. This way you can better see their beautiful flowing form of bushes in the form of fountains, reminiscent of cereals. And amazing flowering only adds grace.
Good neighbors in the flower bed for these perennials are lilies, phloxes, cereals, echinacea and loosestrife. And in partial shade - aconite, veronica, kupena.
LANDING AND CARE
I plant daylilies in spring (May) or summer (August) at a distance of about half a meter from other plants. I add a bucket (10 l) of compost or humus to the planting hole and water it abundantly.
I mainly select open sunny areas where flowering is more abundant. But even in partial shade, daylilies feel good, giving a little less buds.
In early spring, I scatter a small amount of spring fertilizer over melted snow, and before frost I mulch the soil with humus.
I only weed young bushes for the first time after planting. Adults themselves drown out the weeds.
LUXURIOUS DAYLILY HYBRIDS
Over time, we got hybrid daylilies, which, with their appearance and muted colors, fit perfectly into the natural garden. Among them: the undersized Stella dOro, ideal for borders and flowering without interruption until frost; Cool It with milky white buds; Summer Wine with muted pink-cherry flowers. Enlivening the calm colors of the flower beds are several well-known old bright varieties - Bonanza and Frans Hals with yellow-red flowers, Mauna Loa with orange and Ebony Velvet with black-cherry.
All of them bloom beautifully, grow for a long time (8-10 years) without a transplant, do not require much attention, and are not affected by diseases and pests. I consider them ideal perennials, because there are not many plants that perfectly tolerate the climate of our area - hot, dry summers and frosty winters.
© Author: Lyudmila GAVRILOVA, Kuvandyk, Orenburg Region
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Please tell me whether it is necessary to cut off the foliage of daylilies in the fall or is it better to leave them until spring?
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— After the first frost, evergreen leaves lose their attractiveness. And, most importantly, various pathogens and pests that can infect the plant overwinter on them. Some believe that daylilies do not need autumn pruning, as it supposedly stimulates foliage growth. But I recommend trimming it. From the base of the bush, carefully remove all dead, dry, diseased and damaged leaves - a source of fungal and bacterial infections. Cut off the upper part of the foliage, on which thrips larvae and spider mites most often settle, to half the height.
Pruning is the prevention of diseases and pests, resistance to winter drying out of the soil, and saves time in the spring. The autumn garden looks well-groomed after this procedure.