Scylla Spanish planting and care in the open field

The plant has many names, these are hyacintoids, endymion, hyacintoid, Spanish blueberry (scilla). Spanish blueberry is very similar to hyacinth, for which it received another nickname - wild hyacinth. A perennial flower is unpretentious and not demanding, it definitely deserves the attention of gardeners.

Description of Spanish hyacintoids

This bulbous perennial plant begins to bloom in the spring from April to May and ends in June. It occurs naturally in wastelands and meadows, among bushes and thickets in the forest. It grows as an ornamental plant in Europe.

Bushes are small in height, only about 50 cm, leaves up to 30 cm long, flowers like a bell with a diameter of 2 cm and are collected on a single peduncle. Hyacintoides is also interesting in its color scheme, you can create a whole flower garden from this one plant - blue, lilac, white and pink flowers will undoubtedly delight the eye.

Growing and caring for Spanish endymion

Hyacintoides is undemanding to the soil, but still preferable is moist and humus soil with peat, which will provide it with abundant flowering. Partial shade and sun are favorite growing places; of course, it feels better in the sun. It is also possible to plant the plant in shady areas, but in this case, good flowering is not guaranteed.

Planting hyacintoids is carried out in early autumn., the planting depth of the bulbs is 10-30 cm (as practice has shown, the bulbs also sprout during deep planting). Wild hyacinth multiplies by children, in one year up to 6 babies are formed around the mother-bulb. Bulbs are divided and planted every three years at the end of summer. It does not require additional fertilizers; after flowering, it is recommended to leave withered leaves on the site to feed the roots.

Spanish hyacintoid bulbs photo

• It is better to prepare the site in advance, dig up, loosen, break up the lumps with a rake and let the soil settle, at least for a week.
• It is better not to plant in rows, it will turn out very artificially and boring. Better to form small lawns mixed with other flowers. And when the hyacintoides fades, this will be an additional plus: the flower bed will not look empty.
• They plant the bulbs deeper, on a half bayonet of a shovel.
• It is better to leave a distance of at least 8-10 cm so that the flowers can fully develop within three years and not interfere with each other.
• After planting, the soil is moistened, but it is not worth pouring in: there will be no benefit, but harm can be done.

Spanish hyacinths will look beautiful against the background of a green lawn. In this case, it is worth preparing seedlings of late flowering plants, so that when the hyacintoid fades, immediately plant it on an empty area.

Scylla spanish in landscape design

Spanish hyacintoides in landscape design photo

Due to its attractiveness and resilience, the Spanish endymion is ideal for landscaping. The flower is planted in groups, between trees and shrubs, in rockeries, combined with other spring flowers.

Hyacintoides has only one drawback: after flowering, the bushes quickly lose their attractive appearance - the green part of the plant dies off, leaving the soil "bare". When planning a landscape design with a planting of wild hyacinth, you should take into account this disadvantage and take care of the blooming neighbors in advance until the end of the season. Suitable flowers for growing near hyacintoids are lilies, lilies of the valley, primrose and crocosmia.

Varieties of Spanish hyacintoids with a description and photo

Hyacintoides pink pink hyacinthoides pink photo in the garden

The pink Spanish scilla pink hyacinthoides has a very delicate shade with almost white petal tips. Looks very gentle, especially when planted in groups next to blue varieties. The variety is distinguished by the formation of many peduncles, forming a real cloud of fragrant flowers.

Hyacintoides Hyacinthoides Hispanica Indigo Blue photo

Blue hyacintoid Hyacinthoides Hispanica Indigo Blue can be used as an original ground cover: forming dense thickets, flowers completely cover the ground with dark green leaves and drive out tall peduncles. This planting looks very elegant even in monoculture.

Hyacintoides rose hyacinthoides hispanica rose photo

The variety rose hyacinthoides hispanica rose with large bell flowers on low, powerful peduncles is also interesting. Bushes are compact, up to 20 cm in height.

Hyacintoides white Hyacinthoides hispanica White Triumphator photo

It is impossible to ignore the snow-white flowers of the White Triumphator variety. Peduncles are tall, generously covered with large bells. The perfect solution for any flower bed or rockery. In group plantings with blue hyacintoids and pink, the variety looks just great.

Flower hyacintoides Hyacinthoides hispanica Excelsior photo

The Excelsior variety is very beautiful with wide glossy leaves of a rich green hue and powerful compact peduncles with large flowers. Looks original when planted in the center of a flower bed in a single planting and is beautiful when combined with other varieties of wild hyacinth. A good option is to plant a purslane ground cover next to it.

Hyacintoides Hyacinthoides hispanica Dainty Maid photo

Stunningly beautiful pink flowers will be presented by the Dainty Maid variety with powerful compact inflorescences. The leaves are wide, massive, rich green.

A bulbous perennial such as scilla is a member of the asparagus family. However, some time ago this flower was attributed to the lily or hyacinth family. This plant is also called Scylla. Often such a flower is mistaken for a snowdrop or forested plant. This genus includes about 90 different plant species. In natural conditions, they can be found in Africa, Asia and Europe, while they prefer to grow in plains and mountain meadows. The name of such a flower comes from the Greek name of the sea onion "skilla", the fact is that it was previously a representative of this genus. Such a plant is highly resistant to frost and disease, and it is also very beautiful and able to quickly adapt to any environmental conditions.

Features of the woodland

A bulbous plant such as scrub is a perennial. The bulbs are round or ovoid, and their outer scales are purple, dark gray or brown. Basal linear leaf plates grow earlier or at the same time with apical inflorescences, which have the shape of a brush and are located on leafless peduncles. Such a plant has one feature, for example, its leaves on rainy, cool days are pressed against the surface of the soil, while it is warm and sunny outside, they are located almost vertically. The inflorescences include single flowers.The fruit is a box, inside of which there are irregular ovoid seeds of black color. Proleska is a primrose, like the following plants: brandu, white flower, dream-grass (lumbago), goose onion, daffodil, pushkinia, chionodoxa, hazel grouse, saffron (crocus), adonis (adonis), erantus (spring), hyacinth, muscari, snowdrop, primrose, dwarf iris and buttercup. The flowering of most species of scilla is observed at the beginning of the spring period, but there are also such species that bloom in the autumn.

Planting a scilla in open ground

What time to plant

Planting and growing woodland is fairly straightforward. These flowers are used, as a rule, to decorate borders, rockeries, alpine slides and mixborders. The trunks of garden trees, which adorn the beautiful flowers of the scilla at the beginning of spring, also look incredibly impressive. You can plant such a plant even during the flowering period. However, experts recommend planting spring-flowering Scylla after the leaf plates die off (from mid-June), and those that bloom in spring - 4 weeks before the formation of peduncles. These flowers prefer well-lit areas, but they can also be grown in shaded areas. It should be borne in mind that autumn flowering species are not so light-loving compared to those that bloom in spring.

Landing features

Before proceeding with the direct landing of the scilla, it is necessary to prepare the site. Best of all, such a plant will grow in soil with a large amount of organic matter, which includes mineral components and leaf humus. In order for these flowers to grow and develop excellently, it is recommended to mix garden soil with forest soil, which contains semi-decomposed tree bark and foliage. A suitable soil acidity should be between 6.5 and 7.0.

A distance of 5 to 10 centimeters must be maintained between the landing holes. It is necessary to deepen the bulbs into the soil by 6–8 centimeters (depending on the size of the planting material).

Scylla care in the garden

Proleska is distinguished by its extreme unpretentiousness when compared with other spring flowers. In order for this flower to grow normally, it must be watered, if necessary, and after that it is imperative to loosen the soil surface to a depth of 20–25 mm, while weeding. Watering is recommended in the morning, while you need to try so that the liquid does not fall on the surface of the flowers, as this can greatly spoil their appearance. In order to significantly reduce the number of weeding and watering, the area where the scilla grows should be covered with a layer of mulch (deciduous humus).

Spring flowering woodlands need to be fed with a complex fertilizer (for example, Nitrofoskaya) at the beginning of the spring period, due to which the flowering will be much more magnificent. And it is recommended to arrange feeding for autumn-flowering species in autumn. It is best to add trace elements such as iron, magnesium, calcium and copper to a complex mineral fertilizer.

It should be remembered that these plants reproduce well by self-sowing. If you do not have the desire to regularly remove unnecessary scilla from the site, then it is necessary to cut off the withering flowers, trying to do this before the testes appear.

Transfer

For the normal growth and development of this plant, it must be systematically transplanted 1 time in 3 years, this will also allow the bushes to maintain a high decorative effect. Having dug a bush, it is necessary to separate the children from the bulb, after which they are seated as soon as possible in order to avoid the appearance of rot on the bulbs. Experts advise making a transplant in the last days of September or the first in October.

Reproduction of scilla

Seeds and daughter bulbs are used for reproduction. How to propagate with bulbs is described in detail above. In order to grow such a flower from seeds, you first need to collect them.Around the last days of June, the seed pods should turn yellow and begin to crack. These boxes must be collected and seeds are poured out of them, which are immediately sown in open ground. Such seeds have a relatively low germination rate, while bushes grown from seeds will bloom only when they are 3 or 4 years old. The first planting of such plants is produced no earlier than 5 years later, during this time they will grow a large number of children, and the number of peduncles will also increase.

Diseases and pests

Like all small-bulbous plants, this flower is susceptible to infection with achelenchoides, gray rot and bulb rot. The greatest danger of all pests to such a plant is the root meadow mite and murine rodents.

Gray rot appears on leaf blades and on the top of the bulb. Gray mold appears on the affected parts of the plant, and they begin to rot. Then dense spots appear on the bulbs. As the disease progresses, the bushes turn yellow and die. The affected specimens must be dug up and burned as soon as possible. If the stored bulbs have become infected with gray rot, then the problem areas should be cut out and the wounds should be sprinkled with wood ash.

If the scrub gets infected achelenchoides, then there is a defeat of its aboveground part, as well as the bulbs. The scales on the bulbs turn brown and rot appears. So, if you make a cross section of the bulb, you will notice ring rot. In the affected bulb, necrotic spots appear on the surface. Infected specimens show a loss of decoration and developmental lag. Infected bulbs are dug up and burned. For preventive purposes, healthy bulbs should be put in a thermos with hot (43 degrees) water, where they should stay for 30 minutes.

Bulb rot appears due to fungal infections, for example: fusarium, sclerotinia or septoria. In a recently infected bush, the leaf plates begin to turn yellow, and then the infection penetrates into the bulbs, which is why spots of a dirty red color appear on their surface. If you put the infected bulbs in storage, they become very hard and die. This disease begins to develop very quickly when the air humidity is high.

Mouse rodents (for example: house mice and voles) are very fond of eating the bulbs of this plant, while in spring they can eat its sprouts. To protect the scilla, it is necessary to make a protective groove around the area where it is grown. In this groove, bait with poison should be laid, and do not forget to sprinkle it with soil a little, because birds can peck the poisoned rump, which will lead to their death.

Larvae and adults root meadow mite gnaw through the bottom of the onions, and then make their way into their middle. There, the pests begin to suck the juice from the inner scales of the bulb, because of which it begins to rot and dry out. To get rid of this harmful insect, it is necessary to spray the affected bush with an insectoacaricide (for example: Agravertin, Aktellik, Akarin, etc.). For prophylaxis, before planting the bulbs in the soil, they should be etched with one of these agents.

Scylla after flowering

After the plant has faded, the peduncle must be removed from it, while the leaf plates are cut off only after they have completely died out. There is no need to prepare the Scylla for the coming winter in a special way, because it has a fairly high frost resistance and does not need shelter. However, if these flowers are cultivated in an open area, then to protect them from winter frosts, it is recommended to cover them with dried foliage or spruce branches.

Types and varieties of scilla (proleski) with photos and names

As already mentioned, there are quite a few species of blueberry, while most of them are successfully cultivated by gardeners.In this regard, below will be a description of only those of them that are quite popular, and you will also find the name of the most popular varieties.

Scilla hispanica, or Spanish endymion (Endymion hispanicus), or campanulate scilla

The homeland of such a plant is Spain, southern France and Portugal. Moreover, this species prefers to grow in meadows and forests. This type is considered the most effective. The bush in height can reach from 0.2 to 0.3 meters. On single peduncles there are erect inflorescences with the shape of a brush, which consist of 5-10 bell-shaped flowers, up to 20 mm in diameter and painted in pink, blue or white. Flowering begins in the last days of May and lasts for about half a month. If the bulbs remain in the open ground for the winter, then they must be covered. Popular varieties:

1. Rose Queen... The height of the peduncles is about 0.2 meters, they have pink flowers with a lilac hue, which have a very faint smell.
2. Sky Blue... On very strong peduncles, large blue flowers with a strip of blue are placed in a spiral.
3. La Grandes... The inflorescences include 15 white flowers.
4. Rosabella... The height of the peduncles is about 0.3 meters, they have dense inflorescences consisting of pinkish-lilac fragrant flowers. In the evening, their scent becomes much stronger.

Also, gardeners are happy to grow the following varieties of this type of scilla: Excelsior, Blue Queen, Blue Giant, Blue Pearl, Dainty Made, Queen of Pinks, Mont Everest, Miosotis, etc.

Two-leaved scilla (Scilla bifolia), or two-leaved scilla

Under natural conditions, this type of scilla can be found in the Crimea, the Ciscaucasia, the Mediterranean, as well as in the European part of Russia. It is considered the smallest and most lush. The height of the bush, as a rule, does not exceed 0.15 meters. It has 1-3 peduncles, and each of them has inflorescences consisting of pink or white flowers with a sharp, but quite pleasant aroma. Each inflorescence contains up to 15 flowers. This species has only 2 sheet plates of a broad-linear shape, the length of which is about 0.2 meters. This plant begins to bloom in mid-April, and the flowering duration is about half a month. It has been cultivated since 1568. There is a garden form bifolia var. Purpurea, which has purple flowers.

Autumn scilla (Scilla autumnalis), or autumn scilla

Under natural conditions, such a plant can be found in North Africa, the Mediterranean and Asia Minor. One bush can grow up to 5 flower arrows, the height of which varies from 0.15 to 0.2 meters. They have loose racemose inflorescences consisting of 6–20 small flowers of light lilac or violet-red color. It begins to bloom in the last days of July or the first in August. The length of linear grooved narrow leaf plates is about 0.25 m.Cultivated since 1597.

Scilla peruviana, or Peruvian scilla

The homeland of this species is the Western Mediterranean. 2 or 3 flower arrows appear on the bush, which reach 0.35 m in height. Dense conical inflorescences are placed on them, which consist of small (diameter less than 10 mm) flowers of a deep blue color. One inflorescence can contain up to 80 flowers. The length of linear leaf plates is about 30 centimeters, and their width reaches one and a half centimeters. 5-8 leaves grow on one bush.

Siberian Scilla (Scilla sibirica), or Siberian Scylla

This species was named erroneously, because it cannot be found on the territory of Siberia. Under natural conditions, this flower can be found in the Caucasus, in the Crimea, in the European part of Russia, in central and southern Europe. The blue flowers grow at the same time as the leaf blades. The flowers contain nectar.This species has one peculiarity, the fact is that the opening of its flowers occurs at 10 am, and the closure - at 4–17 pm, while if the weather is cloudy, they may not open at all. There are 3 subspecies of such a spindle:

Caucasian (Scilla sibirica subsp.caucasica)

In nature, it can be found in the Eastern Transcaucasia. The height of the flower arrows can vary from 0.2 to 0.4 m. The color of the flowers is dark blue with a purple tint. Flowering begins in the second half of the spring and lasts 15–20 days.

Armenian (Scilla sibirica subsp.armena)

In the wild, it is found in the northeastern part of Turkey and in southern Transcaucasia. The leaf plates are sickle-curved. The height of the flower arrows is from 10 to 15 centimeters, on them there are flowers of a deep blue color. Flowering begins in mid-spring and lasts 15 to 20 days.

Siberian (Scilla sibirica subsp. Sibirica)

Under natural conditions, it can be found in the European part of Russia, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus and in Asia Minor and Western Asia. This subspecies in culture is considered the most popular. The bushes have 3 or 4 broad-linear leaf plates, which reach 15 mm in width. The height of the peduncles is about 0.3 m, while on one bush there can be 1–4 of them. The color of the flowers is azure. Flowering begins in mid-spring and lasts approximately 20 days. In culture, this subspecies has been since the beginning of the 17th century. This subspecies has a form with white flowers, it has been cultivated since 1798, its flowering begins 7-10 days later than plants of other colors, but its duration is 1 month. There are also varieties with blue or pink flowers. The most popular varieties of this subspecies:

• Spring Beauty, at this moment this variety is considered the best, on its strong green-purple peduncles there are 5 or 6 dark purple flowers each, the diameter of which does not exceed 30 mm. This variety is very popular in Western European culture. It does not have seeds, but it is quite easy to propagate it by children.
• Alba... Very showy flowers have a snow-white color. Moreover, this variety looks great when planted together with the previous one.

Also, quite often, gardeners cultivate such species as: grape scilla, Pushkiniform, Rosen, Tubergen (or Mishchenko), purple, one-flowered, sea (sea onion), Litardier, Chinese (proleskidnaya), Italian, Vinogradova, Bukhara (or Vvedensky).

Scilla (Spanish blueberry) is a species of perennial bulbous herbaceous plants from the genus Hyacinthoides of the Hyacinthaceae family. Known also by names: forest bell, forest hyacinth, hyacintoides, hyacintoid, endymion spanish, scilla spanish, scrub.

Gardeners jokingly call woodlands “favorite weed”. They adapt perfectly anywhere and cover the ground like a delicate blue carpet in early spring. They grow well and reproduce in the shady corners of the garden, they are frost-resistant and beautiful flowering. The closest relatives of scilla are hyacinths and ornithogalum, only hyacinth blooms in March, as soon as the snow melts, and scilla in May.

In early spring, the scilla releases several leaves from each bulb, followed by peduncles, up to 30 cm high. The bulb is white and round, and the children are oblong. The flowers are graceful bell-shaped or tubular, collected in a racemose inflorescence from pale blue to bright purple flowers. Bloom in May, lasting 15 to 20 days. About a month after flowering, the leaves of the scilla turn yellow and then die off until the next season. It is recommended to remove faded shoots in order to avoid self-seeding. plants obtained from seeds lose their decorative effect.

Popular varieties of scilla:

«Pink"- with pink flowers;

«Blue giant"- with dark blue flowers;

«White triumphator"- with white flowers.

Scylla is grown by planting several bulbs in open ground in September to a depth of 10 cm, in small groups, at a distance of 15 cm between each other. In general, Scylla is unpretentious, not susceptible to diseases and pests, frost-resistant and feels great on any soils with sufficient permeability. It tolerates both shade and sun quite well.
Propagated by dividing the nest of bulbs in September. It is necessary to plant the bulbs every 3-4 years.

Scylla is planted next to trees, which create an ideal microclimate for them to bloom and grow, and fallen leaves, rotting, will supply the bulbs with the necessary nutrients. Also looks great against the background of spring-flowering trees and shrubs: spirea, rhododendron, deytion. Scyllas are especially beautiful against the background of yellow primroses and hellebores. It goes well with oak grass windweed, lungwort, gravilat.
Scyllas are indispensable on alpine slides, as well as in mixborders, in groups on the lawn, in border plantings.

Proleska (Latin Scilla) belongs to the genus of bulbous perennials of the Asparagus family, although it used to be part of the Hyacinth or Liliaceae family. Another name for the scilla. Sometimes a spit is confused with a forested or snowdrop. The genus includes about 90 species of plants living in mountain meadows and plains in Asia, Africa and Europe. The scilla plant gets its name from the Greek name for the sea onion - skilla, which used to belong to this genus. The flowers are distinguished by their high decorativeness and frost resistance, resistance to diseases and the ability to adapt to any conditions.

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• 2. Scylla flower (scrub) - description
• 3. Planting a scilla in open ground
  • 3.1. Planting a scilla in open ground
  • 3.2. How to plant a spit into the ground
• 4. Caring for Scylla in the garden
  • 4.1. How to grow a branch
  • 4.2. Transplanting scilla (scilla) in the garden
  • 4.3. Reproduction of scilla
  • 4.4. Scylla pests and diseases
• 5. Scylla after flowering
• 6. Types and varieties of scilla (woodland)

Scylla flower (scrub) - description

Proleska is a perennial bulbous plant. Scylla bulbs are round or ovoid, with dark gray, purple or brown outer scales. Leaves are linear, basal, appearing earlier or simultaneously with the apical racemose inflorescences on leafless peduncles. A characteristic feature of the Scylla leaves is that on cloudy and cold days they are pressed to the ground, and in warm and sunny weather they take a position close to vertical. The inflorescences of the woodland consist of single flowers. Blue spines are common, but there are varieties and varieties with purple, white, purple, and pink flowers. The fruit of the scilla is a capsule with black seeds of an irregular ovoid shape. Along with flowers such as crocus (or saffron), brandu, adonis (or adonis), white flower, spring (or erantus), lumbago (or dream grass), hyacinth, goose onions, muscari, daffodil, snowdrop, pushkinia, primrose , chionodoxa, dwarf iris, hazel grouse and buttercup, scilla flower is a primrose. Redwoods usually bloom in early spring, although there are species that bloom in autumn.

The topic of our article is planting woodland and caring for it in the open field.

// Planting a scilla in the open ground // When to plant a spit into the ground.

Planting and caring for a scylla outdoors is not difficult at all. The sapling plant is planted most often on alpine slides, curbs, in mixborders or rockeries. The trunks of fruit trees, decorated with flowering branches in early spring, also look very elegant. Scylla can be planted even during flowering, however, it is better to plant spring woods after the leaves die off, from the second half of June, and autumn flowering Scylla - a month before the development of peduncles. Like all flowers, the blueberry loves good lighting, although it can grow in partial shade, and spring-flowering species are more photophilous than those that bloom in autumn.

How to plant a spit into the ground.

Planting and caring for the cabbage tree begins with the preparation of the site. The best soil for Scylla is a soil rich in organic matter, containing leaf humus and mineral components. To grow well in your garden, you need to add some forest soil with half-decayed foliage and tree bark to your garden soil. The soil for the woodland should be moderately moist, but it does not like swampy soils, like acidic ones. The optimum pH of the soil for the woodland is 6.5-7.0 pH.

Shedding bulbs are placed in holes located at a distance of 5-10 cm from each other, to a depth of 6 to 8 cm, depending on the caliber of the planting material.

// Caring for a scylla in the garden How to grow a spit.

Perhaps the scilla is one of the most unpretentious spring plants. Caring for the proleskaya consists in watering with the obligatory subsequent loosening of the soil to a depth of 2-2.5 cm and removing weeds. It is better to water the scillas in the morning, trying to pour water so that it does not fall on the flowers - from this, the spines lose their decorative effect. To make your work easier, mulch the planting with deciduous humus, after which you will have to water and loosen the soil less often.

For feeding in early spring with a complex fertilizer, for example, Nitrofoskoy, the scrub will respond with abundant flowering, but the species of Scylla blooming in autumn are best fed in the fall. It is advisable to add trace elements calcium, iron, copper and magnesium to the solution of complex mineral fertilizer.

You need to know that many types of Scylla reproduce by self-seeding, and if you do not want the spines to suddenly bloom in the places reserved for other plants, remove the testes from them in a timely manner.

// Transplanting scilla (scilla) in the garden.

Scylla care involves transplanting the plant once every three years. In order for the spines not to lose their decorative effect, they need to be dug up and, separated from the baby's bulbs, they should be planted as quickly as possible in order to avoid rotting of the bulbs. The best time for this procedure is late September or early October.

Reproduction of the scilla.

Scylla is propagated by bulbs and seeds. We have just described the method of propagation by bulbs. As for seed reproduction, the first task is to get seed: as soon as the seed pods turn yellow and begin to crack, and this happens around the end of June, you need to cut the pods, extract seeds from them and sow them. Seed germination is low, and you will only see the flowering of scilla from seeds in 3-4 years. For the first time, you will not have to plant the woodlands grown from seeds until after five years - you need to give the plant time to multiply flower stalks and grow more children.

Pests and diseases of scilla (woodland).

Like other small-bulb crops, Scyllae are affected by diseases such as bulb rot, gray rot and achelenchoides. Of the pests for tree forests, the most dangerous are mouse-like rodents and the root meadow mite.

Gray mold attacks the leaves of the plant and the tops of the bulbs, causing them to become covered with gray mold fluff and rot. Following this, dense specks form on the bulbs. As a result of the development of the disease, woodlands turn yellow and die. Diseased plants should be destroyed immediately. On bulbs affected by gray rot during storage, diseased areas are cut out, and the wounds are treated with wood ash.

Achelenchoides affects both the terrestrial part of the plants and the bulbs, causing their scales to turn brown, which makes the bulbs rot - ring rot can be seen in their cross section. The surface of the diseased bulb is covered with necrotic spots. Plants infected with achelenchoides lose their decorative effect and begin to lag behind in development. Bulbs of damaged plants must be dug up and destroyed, and healthy bulbs are kept for half an hour in a thermos with hot water (43 ºC) for prevention.

Bulb rot can be caused by fungal infections such as sclerotinia, fusarium and septoria.The first sign of the disease is yellowed leaves of the plant, then the infection penetrates the bulbs, from which dirty red spots are formed on them. When stored, diseased bulbs become hard and die. These diseases progress in conditions of high air humidity.

Mouse-like rodents, namely voles, house and field mice, feed on the bulbs of the Scylla, and in the spring they eat up its shoots. In order not to allow the mice to destroy the planting of the forest, a protective groove is made around it, into which the poisoned baits are laid and lightly sprinkled with earth so as not to accidentally poison the birds.

The root meadow mite and its larvae sharpen the bottom of the bulb, penetrate into its middle and feed on the juice of its inner scales, which leads to rotting and drying of the bulb. To kill the tick, they resort to treating plants with insectoacaricides - Aktellik, Agravertin, Akarin and similar preparations. As a preventive measure, Scylla bulbs are etched with the same drugs before planting in the ground.

Scylla after flowering //

After flowering, the flowering shoot of the Scylla is immediately cut off, the leaves are removed only when they themselves completely die off. As for the preparation of the plant for wintering, almost all types of scilla are frost-resistant, therefore they normally hibernate without shelter. But it is better to cover the spruce branches or dry leaves growing in open areas for the winter.

As you can see, planting a scilla and caring for it is not at all laborious, especially since it can be grown by self-seeding.

Types and varieties of scilla (proleski)

Since there are a lot of species of woodland, including in culture, we offer you an acquaintance only with the most famous of them, as well as with the most popular Scylla varieties in floriculture.

Scilla hispanica,

she is the campanulate scilla, she is also the Spanish endymion (Endymion hispanicus), originally from the forests and meadows of Portugal, Spain and the south of France. This is perhaps the most beautiful type of woodland: a plant of short stature (20-30 cm), with a single peduncle and bell-shaped blue, pink and white flowers up to 2 cm in diameter, collected in 5-10 pieces in an erect racemose inflorescence. Scylla bellflower blooms from the end of May for a little less than two weeks. The bulbs of this species left in the ground need to be covered for the winter. The best varieties of Scylla bell-shaped:

• - Rose Queen is a scilla with pink flowers with a lilac hue and a barely noticeable aroma on peduncles about 20 cm high,
• - Sky Blue - large blue flowers with a blue stripe, located on powerful peduncles in a spiral,
• - La Grandes is a plant with white flowers, of which there are about fifteen in each inflorescence,
• - Rosabella - lilac-pink fragrant flowers, collected in a dense inflorescence on peduncles up to 30 cm high. By the evening, the aroma of flowers intensifies.

In addition to those described, the varieties of the bell-shaped creeper Excelsior, Blue Queen, Blue Giant, Blue Pearl, Dainty Maid, Queen of Pinks, Mont Everest, Miosotis and others have proven themselves well.

Double-leaved scilla (Scilla bifolia),

or double-leaved scilla, common in nature in the Mediterranean, the Crimea, the European part of Russia and the Ciscaucasia. This is the most abundant and undersized species of the scilla. A plant about 15 cm high bears from one to three peduncles, each of which forms an inflorescence of white or pink flowers with a strong and pleasant smell, up to 15 pieces. The two-leaved scilla, as the name implies, has only two broad-linear leaves up to 20 cm long. Flowering in plants of this species begins in the second half of April and lasts about two weeks. In culture, the species has been since 1568. There is a garden form bifolia var. Purpurea with purple flowers.

Autumn Scilla (Scilla autumnalis),

or Scylla autumnal, grows in the wild in the Mediterranean, North Africa and Asia Minor. This plant gives up to 5 flower arrows 15-20 cm high, on which small flowers of reddish-purple or pale lilac color open, collected in loose clusters of 6-20 pieces.The beginning of flowering is the end of July or the beginning of August. The leaves of the plant are linear, grooved, narrow, up to 25 cm long. This species has been cultivated since 1597.

Scilla peruviana,

or Scylla Peruvian, comes from the Western Mediterranean. This plant develops 2-3 flower arrows up to 35 cm high with small bright blue flowers less than 1 cm in diameter, collected in a dense conical inflorescence. One inflorescence can contain up to 80 flowers. The leaves of the Peruvian Scylla are linear, up to 30 in length and up to 1.5 cm in width.There can be from 5 to 8 of them on one plant.

Siberian beetle (Scilla sibirica),

or Siberian Scylla, got its name by mistake, since it does not grow in Siberia. Its habitats are the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Crimea, as well as Southern and Central Europe. The leaves of this species appear simultaneously with the blue flowers containing nectar. The peculiarity of flowers of this species is that they open at 10 o'clock and close at 16-17 o'clock, and in cloudy weather they may not open at all. The Siberian Scylla has three subspecies:

• - Caucasian (Scilla sibirica subsp.caucasica), found in the Eastern Transcaucasia. In plants of this subspecies, arrows are 20 to 40 cm high, the flowers are dark blue with a purple tint, blooming for two to three weeks from mid-spring,
• - Armenian (Scilla sibirica subsp. Armena), which grows in southern Transcaucasia and northeastern Turkey. In the Armenian subspecies, the leaves are sickle-curved, the arrows are only 10-15 cm long, the bright blue flowers open in mid-spring and bloom for two to three weeks,
• - Siberian (Scilla sibirica subsp. Sibirica) grows in the mountains, shrubs and forests of the Caucasus, Crimea, Asia Minor and Asia Minor, as well as the European part of Russia. This is the most famous subspecies of the woodland in the culture. Its plants have 3-4 broad-linear leaves up to 1.5 cm wide, the number of peduncles up to 30 cm high on one plant can be from 1 to 4, azure flowers bloom in mid-spring and bloom for about three weeks. The subspecies has been cultivated since the beginning of the 17th century. The white-flowered form of this subspecies has been cultivated since 1798, it blooms a week and a half later, a sap of a different color, but blooms for almost four weeks. In addition to plants with white flowers, there are varieties with pink and blue colors. The most famous varieties of the Siberian subspecies of Siberian redwood:
• - Spring Beauty - currently the best variety of the species with powerful purple-green peduncles and five to six flowers of a dark purple shade with a diameter of about 3 cm. The variety is very popular in Western European culture. Its peculiarity is also that it does not set seeds, but it easily reproduces by children,
• - Alba is a variety with very beautiful snow-white flowers, which creates a spectacular contrast to the Spring Beauty flowers.

In addition to the species described, grape, Pushkiniform, Rosen, Tubergen (or Mishchenko), purple, single-flowered, sea (sea onion), Litardier, Chinese (proleskidnaya), Italian, Vinogradova, Bukhara (or Vvedensky) are in demand in the culture.

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