lily flowers Beckenham

The most preferred time of planting lily bulbs can be a breakthrough September and March, although you can also plant them in the spring - particularly delayed blooming varieties. Before planting, carefully prepare a place beneath lilies: weed, cultivate, mix the soil with mature compost to your depth of about 50 cm and leave for few weeks. Only after this time is usually planted lily bulbs. Planting depth depends on the size of the onion and needs to be equal to the area. For compact soil we planted a bit shallower, on a sandy - deeper. If you create any lily bed of flowers or maybe a group - bulbs are generally planted at 25-30 cm, but vigorously growing options (eg. Trumpet lilies) and the ones which we leave in the ground for countless years - even at 50 cm. Ilya onions dig with early September and immediately planted at a new site to spring at a temperature of about only two degrees Celsius covered together with sawdust or peat. Wintering in the garden soil after 2-3 years of cultivation in the same place worth look, remove dead roots, the longest cut about 1-2 cm and planted in the new location.