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- The Schmucklilie: hardy outdoors too?
- The African lily and her needs
- Hibernate the jewelry lily properly
- Conditions for hibernating outdoors
- Tips & Tricks
The Schmucklilie: hardy outdoors too?
In the plant trade, specimens of the African lily (Agapanthus) are regularly offered, which can allegedly be wintered outdoors. These promises, however, you should only very limited faith.
The African lily and her needs
The African lily is originally from South Africa and is therefore only frost hardy. Since this plant species can withstand minus grades only in the single-digit range and over short periods of time, it is usually planted in Germany as a container plant. Since the root rhizome spreads within a few years to the size of the respective planter, you should divide this regularly, with offshoots from the tubers do not always bloom again.
Hibernate the jewelry lily properly
The Agapanthus are available in different subspecies that either overwinter with green leaves or move the leaves and start only with the rhizome in the next season. The ideal winter home for the African lily has a temperature between 0 degrees Celsius and 7 degrees Celsius. Agapanthus should be watered as little or as little as possible in winter. While leaf-feeding lilies can also be wintered dark, evergreen specimens prefer a bright wintering habitat.
Conditions for hibernating outdoors
Under certain conditions, you can also overwinter the lily in the field:
Wintering in the open air only promises great success if you live in an extremely mild winemaking climate. It should also be a sheltered, sun-exposed location. If there is no snow cover before the first night frosts, then you should protect the plants from the cold with a suitable fleece.
Tips & Tricks
The attempt to hibernate the African lily in the field is always a risk in Central Europe. Therefore, you should prefer this experiment only if you have due to the strong growth of Schmucklilienrhizoms enough unused propagators from the split tubers.