How to properly cover lilies for the winter
In most cases, it is not required to additionally cover garden lilies, they need a natural snow cover with a layer of 10 cm or more. But how to keep the lilies in winter, when there is still no snow cover or it is very weak and the frosts are strong? In these cases, it is better to cover the planting of lilies with dry peat, fallen leaves or needles.
You need to remove the winter shelter on time - as the snow melts. If you remove the shelter too late, due to the lack of light, the lilies will give very thin sprouts that hardly break through the foliage. Harvesting the mulch too early stimulates the strong growth of lilies, as a result of which delicate sprouts may be damaged by frost.
Many experienced flower growers leave in their flower gardens and Oriental hybrids of lilies, which do not differ in good winter hardiness. The success of wintering these species depends entirely on how to prepare lilies for winter, taking into account their characteristics. The fact is that Eastern hybrids are not recommended to be left in the flower garden for the winter, not because they freeze out, but because they get wet under deep snowdrifts and suffer from excessive moisture in the spring. Therefore, if you are wondering how to preserve lilies for the winter, you need to make sure that they winter in fairly dry conditions.
How to keep lilies of Oriental hybrids:
- plant Oriental hybrids in elevated flower beds;
- pour sand into each hole and sprinkle the planting material on top with sand, and only then with soil;
- cover the lilies with peat in the fall;
- after the ground freezes, sprinkle the peat with fallen leaves;
- cover the planting with foil.
Their further development and flowering largely depends on how lilies winter. Therefore, try to provide your pets with comfortable wintering conditions in accordance with the specific features, and they will certainly thank you with lush flowering next season!
If growers leave their flowers to winter in the open field, then before the onset of cold weather, most of them should be covered. You can leave these flowers without shelter if the winters are mild in the region (for example, in the South of Russia), and the varieties are highly frost-resistant.
In principle, if lilies do not grow in the conditions of the Far North (and close to them in climatic conditions), then many varieties and hybrids can be left in flower beds for the winter:
- Asian (tiger) hybrids;
- Martagon (curly);
- Candidum;
- Tubular;
- hybrids Longiflorum Asiatic (LA),
- OT hybrids;
- Royal;
- Daurskys.
All of the above varieties feel great in the garden in winter, only they should be covered in case of severe frosts.
Shelter is necessary only for long-flowered, oriental and American lily hybrids.
Usually, lilies do not need special shelter if a large amount of snow falls in the region in winter, which will cover the bulbs during the winter. If there is little snow or the winter will be warm, then care should be taken in advance to prepare a natural covering material. It is best to use needles (pine or spruce sawdust, or spruce branches), under which slugs and other "harmful" insects will not crawl, as well as pests (especially mice) that can damage the growth points of bulbous plants.
Plush webcap (Cortinarius orellanus)
- Other names for the mushroom:
- Mountain webcap
- Cobweb orange-red
Other names:
Description:
Teddy webcap (Cortinarius orellanus) has a dry, matte cap, covered with small scales, 3-8.5 cm in diameter, hemispherical at the beginning, then flat, with an expressionless tubercle, orange or brown-red with a golden tint. All of them are distinguished by non-slip, always dry fruiting bodies, a silky felt cap and a slender, not thickened leg. The plates are colored orange to rusty brown.
Distribution: The plush webcap is a relatively rare species. In some countries, it has not yet been found. In Europe, it grows mainly in autumn (sometimes at the end of summer) in deciduous, and occasionally in coniferous forests. It forms mycorrhiza mainly with oak and birch. Most often appears on acidic soils. Learning to recognize this extremely dangerous mushroom is very difficult, since there are many similar species; because of this, even for a specialist, it is not easy to determine a teddy webcap.
Note:
Plush webcap - deadly poisonous. Contains the poisonous substance orellanin, which causes pathological changes in the kidneys. Signs of poisoning appear 3-14 days after ingestion of the mushroom. The mushroom retains its toxic properties after boiling in water or drying.
Teddy webcap, like other types of cobwebs, until 1960 was considered a harmless mushroom. The prevailing opinion was that among the huge number of cobwebs (more than 400 species grow in Europe alone) there are only bitter inedible species and relatively tasty species that are suitable for writing.
However, after frequent poisoning that took place in Poland, many of which were fatal, it was possible to establish that the culprit was a teddy spider web - a mushroom smelling of radish and pleasant to the taste. During chemical analysis, several poisonous compounds were found in its fruits - orellanin, cortinarin, benzoinin, etc. days. Then there is a rapid deterioration in the human condition, impaired renal function and death.
Mushroom spider web brown (dark brown): photo and description
| Name: | Webcap brown |
| Latin name: | Cortinarius cinnamomeus |
| Type of: | Inedible |
| Synonyms: | Cinnamon webcap, Webcap dark brown, Flammula cinnamomea, Gomphos cinnamomeus, Dermocybe cinnamomea |
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The brown webcap is a mushroom from the webcap genus, the Kortinariev family (Webcap). In Latin - Cortinarius cinnamomeus. Its other names are cinnamon, dark brown. All cobwebs have a characteristic feature - a "cobweb" film, which in young specimens connects the leg and cap. And this species is called cinnamon for an unpleasant smell that resembles iodoform.
Description of the brown webcap
The fruit body is brown with an olive tint, hence the names "brown" and "dark brown".
Description of the hat
The fungus is widespread, but little known. Experienced mushroom pickers can recognize the brown webcap from the photo and description. Its cap is small, on average 2 to 8 cm in diameter. It is conical in shape, sometimes hemispherical. Over time, opening, flattens. In the central part, a sharp or wide tubercle becomes more noticeable.
The surface of the cap is fibrous to the touch. Has a yellow cobweb blanket. The main color has various shades of brown: reddish, ocher, olive, purple.
The fungus belongs to the lamellar section. Its plates are wide and frequent, have a yellow-orange tint in young mushrooms and rusty-brown in old ones, after the maturation of the spores. The plates are attached to the pedicle with a tooth. The flesh is yellow-brown, odorless.
Leg description
The stem is fibrous, in the form of a cylinder or slightly widening towards the base of the cone. Often covered with the remains of a cortina, or cobweb blanket, or a whitish mycelium.
Where and how it grows
The cinnamon webcap grows in temperate climates. It is found on the territory of Western European countries such as Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Great Britain, Finland, as well as in the eastern part of Europe - in Romania and the Czech Republic, Poland and the Baltic countries. There is also a mushroom in Russia.It is distributed in temperate latitudes, from the western to the eastern borders. The area of its growth also captures the areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
It occurs more often singly or in small groups in deciduous forests or among conifers. It is characterized by the formation of mycorrhiza with spruces and pines. The hearth bodies are collected in August - September, sometimes until mid-October.
Is the mushroom edible or not
In the composition of the brown webcap there are no toxic substances hazardous to human health. No cases of poisoning were recorded. However, it tastes bad and has a pungent odor. For this reason, it is not eaten and is classified as inedible.
Doubles and their differences
Many representatives of the Spiderweb genus are similar to each other and outwardly resemble toadstools. It is difficult to determine exactly which species a particular mushroom belongs to. Only specialists can do it
Collecting such specimens must be done with great care, but it is better not to do this at all.
The brown webcap is easy to confuse with the saffron webcap. This mushroom is inedible. Its characteristic difference is in the color of the plates and young fruit chalk. They are yellow, while in the brown spider web they are closer to orange in color.
Conclusion
The brown webcap is not of interest for mushroom pickers and cooks. Having met him in the forest, it is better to give up the temptation to put a mushroom in a basket. However, he found another application - in the manufacture of wool products. The brown webcap is one of the few species used as a natural dye. With its help, wool is given beautiful dark red and burgundy shades.
