Gardeners love daylilies for their simplicity and beauty. Among the thousands of species of daylilies, it is difficult to distinguish the most attractive, since they are distinguished by bright colors during the flowering period. The plant can grow without a transplant for ten years, bloom in partial shade, be picky about the soil. But still, minimal care is required for the plant. How to prepare a daylily for winter?
Basic information
The daylily belongs to the lily plant family. One-day flowering is a very entertaining feature of the plant. Each flower lives only one day, but flowering lasts a long time due to the large number of buds on the stem. If you plant different varieties from the earliest to the latest, then the whole summer will continue to be picturesque flowering! It is only important to take a serious approach to the wintering of the daylily so that from year to year the plant pleases with its beauty.
Daylily pruning
The plant is very winter hardy, it does not require difficult manipulations. It is up to you to decide when to trim the daylilies. For example, flower shoots should be removed immediately after flowering. If it is a rainy autumn, then after wilting, wet flowers may remain on the stems, then it is better to cut them off. Take your time with the leaves. Complete pruning of daylilies for the winter in late autumn, as the leaves tend to remain green even in October-November. When they have wilted, cut off the ground portion of the plants.
Daylily wintering
Some semi-evergreen or evergreen decorative daylilies may not survive the frosty winter, so they need shelter for prevention. But more adapted varieties will endure the winter very easily without your intervention! Consider a cover for daylilies, if the plant is planted in the fall of the current year, then this will help the plant to adapt. Straw, sawdust, dry grass, spruce branches, dry peat - all this can serve as a shelter.
If in the cold season the temperature reaches -35 degrees, then daylilies will need to be prepared for winter in a slightly different way. At the end of November, dig up the rhizome of the daylily, move it to a cold shelter, and in the spring, plant it back on the flower bed.
It's so easy to prepare daylilies for winter, it's not for nothing that it is called a plant for the lazy. But still, do not neglect the daylilies, that in the spring they delighted you with their seedlings!
