Scilla (scylla): planting and care in the open field, types and varieties. Growing Siberian blueberries: varieties, photos of flowers Scylla white
Scylla is often referred to as "the favorite weed" by gardeners. These flowers from the hyacinth family are widely distributed because they adapt perfectly to different conditions. In addition, they grow and breed well in shady places, differing in frost resistance and excellent appearance.
Leaves are linear, peduncles are leafless. The flowers are blue, purple, white or pink; they are collected in inflorescences or located singly. bright flowers scill give the flower garden a special unique look.
Word Scilla translated from ancient Greek means "sea onion". Numerous species of Scylla grow abundantly in Europe and Asia.
Most often in the gardens there is a Siberian blueberry (Scilla siberica), which has broad-linear basal bright green leaves. This is a plant with bright blue flowers that bloom as early as mid-April.
Less common is the amazingly beautiful form "Alba" with snow-white flowers.
The most abundantly flowering and undersized of the weeds is the two-leaved weed (Scillabifolia)- In addition, it has a strong pleasant aroma. Her flowers can be blue, pink or white, and their number in the inflorescence is from 3 to 15 pieces.
Scylla blooms in April after the snow melts for 15–20 days, and the buds, along with the leaves, appear two weeks earlier. Her small flowers, similar to drooping bells, are collected in 20-30 pieces on a peduncle.
cultivation
Scillas are grown in one place for 5–6 years. During this time, they grow strongly and give a large number of peduncles, which creates a decorative effect. All scillas are very good for spring small bouquets. They are suitable for forcing, especially for the New Year, which is especially valuable for gardeners.
Scylla bulb is broadly ovoid, 2–3 cm in diameter. During the season, the mother bulb forms 3–5 children. A year later, young bulbs form flower arrows, and at the age of two they are suitable for forcing.
Landing. Scylla easily tolerates transplanting even during flowering. However, it is necessary to harvest the bulbs during the period of yellowing of the leaves, and plant them in the ground in late August - early September.
The plant is winter-hardy, hibernates without shelter, but grows in open places, so it is still better to cover for the winter.
Growing conditions. Scillas love shady places, but grow just as well in lighted areas. The soil prefers loose, moist and fertile, but can also grow on heavy soils with the addition of humus in areas with little shading. Perhaps the only thing that the blueberry will not be able to adapt to is the acidic marshy soil. If the land suits her, the blueberry will grow in one place for decades.
reproduction. Scylla reproduce well by seed. Immediately after the cracking of the seed pods (approximately at the end of the first decade of July), the seeds must be collected and immediately sown in the ground, because. they lose their viability extremely quickly. Moreover, the blueberries give abundant self-seeding, therefore, in good conditions spread quickly throughout the garden. When growing sprouts in flower beds, it is necessary to remove the testes in a timely manner, preventing the seeds from spreading.
Scylla and ovoid bulbs propagate easily. To do this, they are seated in the second half of summer. Bulbs form up to 4 peduncles up to 15–18 cm long.
It is worth transplanting and dividing the scillas no earlier than 3 years after planting, while they can be transplanted even during flowering, there will be no harm from this plant, the main thing is not to overdry the roots. When planting a scilla, try to keep the recommended distance of 5-6 centimeters.
The most optimal time for planting sprouts is after the leaves die off, so you will avoid even a small risk, the calendar time is usually June or early July.
Care. Scillas are unpretentious, do not require special care. In order for them to bloom better, in early spring they need to be fed with nitrophoska. After watering, the earth should be loosened to a depth of 2–2.5 cm and mulched with leafy humus.
The use of weeds in garden design
High decorativeness allows the scilla to be widely used in various types floral decoration. Blooming among the first, they will decorate the garden after winter. Scillas grow very quickly and form beautiful blue clumps under trees or on lawns, which are wonderfully combined with clumps of white snowdrops and early yellow crocuses.
Scillas are absolutely indispensable on alpine hills, they are in perfect harmony with stones, therefore, like many early spring small-bulbous ones, they are planted in rocky gardens. You can also plant them in groups on the lawn, in borders, borders, mixborders, and even in the near-trunk circles of fruit trees.
Blooming scillas are especially good in combination with other perennials, such as peonies, when the leaves of those have not yet had time to turn around. Scilla is often used as a cut flower for spring bouquets.
Forcing of the woods
Scylla are also suitable for forcing. To do this, it is necessary to plant them in a pot in the fall, arranging two or three pairs of plants in each, and put them in a dark and cool place where there is no negative temperature even in winter (in the basement). In February, the pots should be transferred to the windowsill or to another bright place with a temperature of about 12 ° C.
"Ural Gardener", No. 16, 2019
Photo: Rita Brilliantova, Maxim Minin
Scilla or "scylla" is a bulbous perennial, representing the asparagus family, formerly lily. About 90 varieties grow in the world, Europe, Africa and Asia are considered the birthplace of the plant. From ancient Greek, the name translates as sea bow. Also, these flowers are popular under a different name blue snowdrop.
Shoots reach 12-25 cm. The foliage is wide, linear, collected in a squat bunch, appears at the same time as the inflorescences. It has a blue to purple color. Small flowers have racemose inflorescences, sometimes solitary. The flowering stage is in April, and some varieties are autumn-flowering.
The types of blueberries demanded by flower growers include:
- Spanish (Flowers are cylindrical-bell-shaped, blue, white, pink-purple. Flowering in June. Has many garden forms. Can be used in winter time for forcing.);
- Two-leaved (reaches 12-13 cm, linear leaves and sky-blue flowers, 2-12 in inflorescences.);
- Autumn (It has narrow-linear, grooved leaves. The flowers are pale lilac in color, collected in racemose inflorescences. The beginning of flowering is the first decade of August.);
- Siberian (Buds white color grow simultaneously with the leaves, reach 10-12 cm).
Below we will consider the Siberian blueberry: how to properly plant and care for it.
Reproduction and planting.
Diseases and pests.
Like any bulbous plant exposed to diseases such as bulbous and gray rot. The affected plants are destroyed. The pests of the plant are rodents (field mice) that damage the bulbs. For prevention, it is recommended to dig ditches around the flowers, into which poison with bait is placed and covered with earth. It is not excluded the defeat of the meadow tick, because of which the bulb rots and dries. For prevention and destruction in this situation, spraying Scylla and its bulbs with insectoacaricide preparations will help.
Scylla or Scilla is a bright spring perennial, tender and graceful, it will decorate any flower arrangement. Scylla belongs to small-bulbous plants, from the asparagus family, but more recently it has been ranked both in the hyacinth and lily families. Scylla grows in meadows and forests, covering the area with a bright blue "carpet". The flower is stable, has exceptional vitality and will become a bright, decorative element in any flower bed.
Scylla planting: when, how and where to plant?
Often, novice flower growers face problems: the time of planting scilla, finding a suitable site for planting scilla, and the difficulties of care. However, growing scilla is not difficult, the main thing is to follow the basic rules of care and planting technology.
Scylla has about 20 species, however, for any variety of blueberry, the optimal set of growing conditions described below is suitable.
Scylla is a light-loving, winter-hardy and unpretentious plant, like all small-bulbous ones. It does not require annual digging and replanting, storage out of soil and heavy watering. In order for the blueberry to develop and bloom profusely, it is enough just to choose the most comfortable place for it.
When choosing a site for landing a scilla, pay attention to a place that is calm and warmed by the sun, with variable solar activity.
Since Scylla is still a “forest flower”, she prefers light, enriched soil with good aeration. A place under trees or near shrubs is fine.
Scylla reacts negatively to acidic and waterlogged soils, does not tolerate heavy soils. If the soil of your site does not meet the basic requirements for growing plants, you can always enrich it with peat and compost, drain it with sand and green manure, and acid lime.
Planting spring scilla in open ground, like all small-bulbous ones, should be done in the fall. And the varieties of woodlands, blooming in summer and in the fall, planted a month and a half before the expected flowering. Scilla gets along well with other spring flowers, in a flower bed gets along with all representatives flora, and if you plant snowdrops or crocuses between scilla, a bright contrast and admiring glances will be provided to your site.
Scylla reproduces vegetatively and by seeds, forming both a seed box after flowering and babies. If you decide to sow Scylla, keep in mind that flowering will not occur until the flower forms a viable bulb.
Scylla seeds are sown in spring, in warm soil, so that by winter the seedlings will sprout and gain strength for wintering. Sowing is carried out to a depth of 6-8 cm, with such a planting pattern, the bloom will begin to bloom no earlier than in 3-4 years.
Reproduction by children occurs differently, the mother bulb forms during the growing season a separate small bulb about 0.5-1 cm, which is ready for planting in a new place in a year.
Scilla babies are transplanted a year after formation, carefully separating them from the mother bulb, and placing them in prepared holes up to 8 cm deep.
How to care for Scylla? Proper care is the key to a successful grower
Unpretentious plant scylla, does not require painstaking care. Spillage is resistant to low temperatures, tolerates short-term frosts, is not susceptible to diseases of garden flowers (with the exception of root rot).
However, it is still not worth letting any flowering process in your area take its course. For bright and abundant flowering, the blueberry needs watering and fertilizing, like any other self-respecting plants.
Watering should be rare, but plentiful, and at the beginning of the growing season it is not needed at all, the abundance of snow will do its job and water the blueberry. Waterlogging is detrimental for the Scilla flower, because it can provoke the rotting of the bulb and the death of the plant, so make sure that the water does not stagnate in the area and organize drains in time, and to prevent stagnant water, before the snow melts, clear the area from the snow cover.
If your soil on the site is depleted, apply phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, nitrogen, compost, ammonium nitrate. This should be done during flowering and before the plant releases its first flower spike. The main thing is to avoid burns, fertilizer must be applied under the root, without spilling on the flower.
Scylla does not need hilling, but weeds have not yet appeared, so manual weeding is carried out as the weed grows.
If you do not want the scylla to grow exponentially, capturing the entire plot, it is better to cut off the seed pods immediately, as they are born.
After flowering, dried flower stalks and leaves are cut off, and in late autumn, the area with scilla plantings is covered with mulch or spruce branches to avoid freezing of the soil and bulbs.
Scylla varieties and types, description and features:
Scylla has more than a hundred varieties and they are all different. Outstanding representatives are the types:
Scylla "Siberian" or Scylla "Sibirika"
This species bears its name “in absentia”, since Siberia is not the birthplace of the Sibirik species, but it grows in the South of Russia and in Europe.
The difference between the "Siberian" Scylla is in the soft blue tint of flowers of medium size. Peduncle thin, up to 20 cm in height. "Siberian" scylla exudes a light pleasant aroma. Subspecies of "Sibirika" are:
Caucasian Scylla growing in the Caucasus. The flowers of the plant are dark blue or purple-blue. The leaves are linear, up to 15 cm long. Flowering lasts about three weeks.
Armenian Scylla growing in the Caucasus, Turkey and Armenia. It has linear curved leaves, blue flowers medium size up to 2 cm.
It blooms from April to May, grows rapidly, covering the area with a continuous carpet.
The "Siberian" species also has a "Siberian subspecies", a distinctive feature of which can be called growth (grows in Asian countries and in middle lane Russia) and a classic, milky shade of inflorescences. The subspecies of the Siberian Scylla blooms a little later than the others, and has a variety of shades from milky to pale pink.
The most popular and well-established varieties of Siberian Scylla are:
Variety Spring Beauty, with large bulky flowers of a purple hue and variety Alba, with white flowers.
Scylla "Peruvian"
"Peruvian" scylla is a common species of perennial mecolonous plant, the asparagus family. The Peruvian species of Scylla, like the Siberian, got its name by accident. Scylla bulbs were brought from Spain in the 1750s, on a ship called Peru, from that moment scilla got its name "Peruvian".
Distinctive feature the Peruvian species is a tall peduncle, linear erect leaves 30 cm long, blue flowers collected in racemose inflorescences of 30-60 pieces.
Flowering "Peruvian" Scylla stretches from May and continues in some areas until June. The birthplace of the Peruvian species is Spain, Portugal, the Canary Islands, Sicily and Malta. The purpose of the Peruvian scylla is decorative, it is often used for landscape decorations and in the design of flower beds.
Scylla "Bell-shaped" (Endymion of Spain)
The "bell-shaped" scylla or "Spanish endymion" originates from the forests of Spain, Portugal and France. The plant can be classified as one of the most beautiful views blueberries.
A medium-sized peduncle is decorated with flowers of blue or pink shade, in the form of a large bell 2-3 cm in size. There can be up to 8 flowers on one peduncle, making up a marvelous "fluffy" bunch.
Flowering Scylla begins at the end of May and ends in June. A variety of bell-shaped varieties cannot but please the eye and delight flower growers.
The most popular varieties of bell scilla are called:
Sky Blue, a variety with large sky-blue flowers and blue veins, located on large peduncles.
Rose Queen, bright variety with pink flowers and lavender tint.
La Gradence will surprise you with white large flowers collected in lush brushes and a delicate aroma.
Rosabella, pink-lilac flowers in inflorescences, will fill the garden with fragrance. Plant height up to 25 cm. The variety is in demand among florists and landscape designers.
In addition to those described above, the bell-shaped scilla includes scilla varieties: Everest, Blue Pearl, Blue Queen, Blue Giant, Queen Pinks and others.
Scylla "Spanish"
Spanish Scylla or Spanish hyacinthoides comes from Spain, it is a perennial bulbous representative of hyacinths.
By botanical features it is similar to the blueberry, but it is a representative of a different group of plants. Releases in early autumn lanceolate basal leaves, about 25 cm long, then a peduncle. The bulb is light, irregular oval, from 2 cm in diameter.
Flowering begins from late April to May, approximately two and a half weeks. The flowers are bell-shaped, bulky, pale blue or deep purple, and come in milky or pale pink. Inflorescences can have about 10 flowers collected in a brush.
When the Spanish blueberry fades, the leaves gradually turn yellow and dry out, and new bulbs form in the ground. After the leaves dry out completely, the moistening is completed, as the plant is preparing for wintering. The Spanish Scilla is great for growing in open ground, (in autumn, acquired bulbs are simply buried in the ground to a depth of 8 cm), the plant tolerates cold.
"Double leaf"
Scylla bifolia grows in the Mediterranean, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus. undersized variety scilla bifolia blooms profusely and luxuriantly, without wasting energy on "extra greenery", but putting a peduncle into the cap.
Plant height reaches 15 cm, has up to three peduncles, with inflorescences of white and Pink colour. The two-leaved scylla has two broad, basal, linear leaves. The two-leaved scylla includes a purple scilla in its group, with bright purple flowers. Blooms for about two weeks.
Autumn species of Scylla, found in the mountains of the North Caucasus, in Asia Minor. The plant can reach a height of 22 cm. It blooms from August to September with small dark lilac or purple flowers. Racemes of inflorescences are rare, including from 3 to 15 flowers.
On the varieties described above, the variety of scylla does not end, the cultivated variety of the plant includes grape scilla, pushkiniform, Italian, Bukhara, Chinese, one-flowered and Mishchenko's blueberry.
Growing scilla at home, potted scilla on your window
Scylla is unusual and very beautiful plant. Planting scilla always involves open ground, but few people know that the scilla grows well on the windowsill. There is an opportunity to grow a scylla especially for the holiday and surprise guests or a birthday person.
To grow scilla at home, you will need a light soil enriched with nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, a medium-sized pot of about 2-3 liters and blueberries. Depending on the required forcing time, choose Scilla varieties that are suitable for flowering time for you.
Direct planting produce three bulbs per pot. Do not forget about the drainage holes in the pot and the drainage itself. For drainage, you can use small river pebbles, or thick tree bark, previously boiled or treated with manganese.
When the drainage is laid, you can start filling the pot halfway, fertile soil is suitable, mixed with peat or river sand. Then the scilla bulbs are laid, and the pot is covered with soddy soil to the top. It is important not to deepen the bulb, too deep. The optimal depth for planting scilla will be 7-8 cm.
After planting, moisten the soil and put the Scilla pot in a cool and dark "corner", where the "newborn" scilla will be stored in a dormant stage. A month before the expected holiday, put the pot in a well-lit place warmed by the sun, for example, on a lit windowsill, water it well, fertilize miracle humus or good power. In two weeks, the blueberry will release a peduncle, and in another week it will bloom.
A beautiful scilla flower, bright and delicate, it will decorate any flower arrangement, flower bed and will delight you, not only with its flowering, but also with a light, spring aroma.
Synonym: scylla, scilla.
Siberian blueberry is a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant with broad-linear basal leaves, six-pointed flowers of a bright sky color. Siberian blueberry flower is widely used in landscape design, is also popular with beginner flower growers. It is worth noting that the bulbs of this plant are poisonous.
The plant is poisonous!Ask the experts
In medicine
Siberian sprout is not a pharmacopoeial plant and is not listed in the Register medicines RF. The plant is not used in official medicine, traditional medicine or other medical practices.
Contraindications and side effects
Despite the fact that only the bulb is the poisonous part of the Siberian blueberry, the plant should never be used for food or in medicinal purposes. When taking the plant orally, there is a high risk of severe intoxication of the body. The person begins to feel sick, then vomiting joins. Associated symptoms may include dry mouth and swelling of the larynx, which can even lead to death.
Scientists say that even 10 grams of a poisonous plant can kill an animal weighing up to 20 kilograms. For this reason, it is strictly forbidden to use the plant for food, to prepare medicinal potions based on it, or to feed animals with it.
In floriculture
Siberian blueberry has gained immense popularity among floriculture lovers due to its early flowering and very unpretentious care. Scilla is often compared to a snowdrop, as both plants begin to grow immediately after the snow melts. Gardeners use blueberry to decorate flower beds, paths and gardens. His unusual color the plant gives the garden a peculiar zest and one of the first to open the season of flowering crops.
The plant is considered unpretentious, but for abundant and beautiful flowering some care must be taken. Siberian spelling is undemanding to the soil, for this reason the choice of soil and location does not matter. The plant does well both in the sun and in the shade. If you plant a plant on the sunny side, the Siberian blueberry will begin to grow immediately after the snow melts. If planted in the shade, the plant will begin to grow a little later.
The culture loves moisture very much, so watering should be plentiful, and most importantly, regular, especially if the blueberry grows in the open sun. Once a week, various liquid fertilizers are added to the water for irrigation, mainly mineral, rich in copper and zinc.
Classification
Siberian Spill (lat. Scilla siberica) is a species of the genus Scilla (lat. Scilla). The genus includes about 90 plant species. Previously, this genus belonged to the Liliaceae family (lat. Liliaceae), today the genus Proleska belongs to the Asparagus family (lat. Asparagaceae).
Botanical description
Siberian spelling is a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant. It develops as an ephemeroid: the growing season lasts from the moment the snow melts until May. As soon as the fruits ripen, the plant withers.
Leaves broadly linear, basal. Their number can vary from 2 to 4, at the tip the leaves are pulled together into a cap, fully developed before flowering. There are several flower-bearing shoots, their height is from 10 to 20 cm, each bears several flowers.
The flowers are actinomorphic, with a simple corolla-shaped perianth with six free leaflets, the color of which can be from bright blue to violet-blue. Flowering falls on spring time of the year. Usually begins to bloom in late March or late April, depending on weather conditions.
Spreading
In the wild, the Siberian blueberry grows in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Iraq and Iran. Rarely found in the forests of North America. It grows mainly in deciduous forests, as well as on the edges.
Distribution regions on the map of Russia.
Procurement of raw materials
The plant is not harvested for the future. Siberian blueberry is poisonous plant, it is not eaten and is not used for medicinal purposes.
Chemical composition
Chemical composition Siberian blueberry is practically unknown to science.
Pharmacological properties
Siberian spelling, the use of which is only for the purposes of ornamental crop production, does not have any pharmacological properties.
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