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Daylily Bonanza is a hybrid of a flowering perennial plant, characterized by abundant flowering. It is absolutely unpretentious, therefore it can be used for landscaping city streets, and gardeners grow it with great success in home gardens.
Description of the Bonanza daylily
The main advantage of the Bonanza hybrid is lush flowering with large flowers reaching 14 cm in diameter. Particularly remarkable is their golden hue with a noble purple pattern at the center. The flowers have a light pleasant aroma, have the shape of a funnel formed by six petals with pointed, outward-curving tips. Long stamens give the corollas sophistication and sophistication.
Daylily flowers are located on strong peduncles
This hybrid blooms from mid-summer, the duration of the process is about 1 month. Each flower lives no more than 1 day, but due to the large number of buds, the plant is in the stage of continuous flowering for quite a long time. Each daylily forms up to 30 long peduncles. The height of the flowering bush can vary from 60 to 100 cm.
Daylily has long, thin basal leaves of deep green color, dying off for the winter.
Daylily hybrid Bonanza in landscape design
This flower is able to fit well into almost any design – from a simple rustic style to an exquisite luxurious garden, and the possibilities of its use are extremely wide.
Most often, daylilies, including the Bonanza hybrid, are used in flowerbed plantings as a bright accent.
It goes well with other flowers, plants and shrubs.
The dark green or blue crown of coniferous crops will emphasize the brightness of Bonanza daylily flowers.
The plant is used to enliven small garden ponds and as low borders.
Hybrid Bonanza also looks great in single plantings on lawns and lawns.
Very interesting compositions are obtained by combining several varieties of daylily.
A variety of colors of flowers of different varieties allows you to create picturesque ensembles
Winter hardiness of Bonanza daylily
The hardiness of the Bonanza daylily to winter frosts is impressive: the hybrid can tolerate temperatures as low as -38°-42°C. He feels especially comfortable during snowy winters. If there is not enough snow in the region, and the climate is harsh, the daylily without shelter may suffer.
Planting and caring for daylily hybrid Bonanza
The amazing unpretentiousness of the daylily Bonanza makes caring for it absolutely easy. The main thing is to prepare the place and plant the plant according to all the rules. In the future, it remains only to occasionally water the plantings on especially dry days, cut off dead parts, fertilize and prepare the plants for winter.
Selection and preparation of the landing site
The plant does not impose special requirements on the place of cultivation. Daylilies are not afraid of wind and drafts, they feel good both in sunny areas and in partial shade. In the southern regions, it is still desirable to protect them from direct sun and plant them in the scattered shade of trees. In areas with a cold climate, daylily will grow better in high beds, illuminated by the sun.
Before planting, the site is dug up. Loams enriched with compost are optimal as a substrate. Heavy clay soils are mixed with sand and humus is added, and a little clay and compost are added to soils with a predominance of sand.
So that the daylily does not suffer from rust, when planting, the proximity to the patrinia should be avoided. Also, you can not plant it in areas where spores of fungal diseases from previous crops could remain.
Rules of landing
The distance that is maintained between the bushes during group plantings depends on the design task and can be from 40 to 90 cm.
The Bonanza daylily is planted in spring or autumn, given that it will take about 30 days to fully root. Summer planting is also possible, but should be done in cool weather.
Planting a Bonanza daylily is not at all difficult, the main thing is to follow the rules:
- the volume of the planting pit should be 2 times the size of the root ball;
- a nutrient substrate is poured into the hole, consisting of a mixture of earth with peat and compost;
- remove dry and damaged roots of the seedling;
- leaves are cut at a level of 12-15 cm from the ground;
- the roots are well straightened, the plant is placed in a hole, deepening the root neck by no more than 20 mm;
- the pit is covered with a nutrient mixture, the soil is well compacted and watered;
- seedlings are mulched with peat.
After planting, the daylily is watered so that its roots accumulate the necessary moisture.
Watering and top dressing
The root system of the Bonanza daylily is able to receive water from the deep layers of the soil, so the drying of the surface layer of the earth does not harm the plant. Mulching with natural materials helps to retain moisture. The flower practically does not require watering. If dry weather has set in, the culture needs additional moisture, the procedure is especially relevant during the flowering period. Young plants are also regularly watered.
Watering is carried out under the root in the morning or in the evening, when direct sunlight does not fall on the plantings.
If the Bonanza daylily grows on poor soil, it is useful to feed it with a complex of mineral fertilizers for flowers three times a season (after the snow melts, in late spring and late summer). After fertilizing, the plants must be watered. Top dressing begins in the second year after planting, since with proper soil preparation there are enough nutrients for a young plant.
Bonanza Daylily Pruning
During the season, dried flowers are removed, and daylilies need radical pruning of leaves and peduncles only in the fall, when the aerial part of the plant dies.
Preparation for winter
Winter shelter is not required for an adult Bonanza daylily. The plant is well watered, the dried above-ground part is cut and destroyed, then the place of growth is covered with earth and mulched. Young plants planted in the current season should be covered with spruce branches in the first winter.
Reproduction
The best way to propagate a Bonanza hybrid is to divide an adult bush. So you can save all its varietal characteristics. In the middle of spring, when vegetative processes begin at the Bonanza daylily, they dig it up, divide the root system into the required number of parts, and then plant it out. It is possible to propagate the plant in this way throughout the summer, but at later dates it must be borne in mind that it will bloom only next year.
Adult Bonanza daylilies can be divided into any number of bushes
Plants of the Bonanza hybrid, obtained from seeds, lose the decorative qualities of the mother bush.
Diseases and pests
The Bonanza hybrid, like other daylilies, is not very susceptible to disease. However, gardeners may encounter heterosporiosis, a fungal disease that causes brown spots with fungus spores to appear on the leaves. Most often, the daylily suffers from heterosporiosis in wet, warm weather. You can get rid of the disease with the help of special copper-containing drugs. For prevention in the fall, it is necessary to remove and burn all dry leaves and flower stalks.
Sometimes the roots of the Bonanza daylily are affected by onion mites. Pests are hard to spot, but damaged plants are stunted and turn yellow quickly. In order not to bring the tick to the site, it is worth washing the roots of the acquired seedling with soap. If the insect has already harmed the plantings, the seedlings are dug up, the root system is washed, the damaged parts of the rhizomes are removed and treated with karbofos. The plant is planted in a new place. The soil in which pests remain is thoroughly watered with boiling water. This is enough to kill pests.
Conclusion
Daylily Bonanza is a garden crop that has rightfully earned popularity among gardeners in our country. The wide possibilities of its use for decorating the landscape, the amazing beauty of flowers with minimal care makes the daylily one of the most sought-after ornamental plants.
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