Grouse (Fritillaria) - "long-term chess player": landing and leaving. Chess hazel grouse planting and care in the open field in the fall

Planting hazel grouses

Many gardeners love hazel grouse because it is a perennial plant, and you do not need to suffer with planting every year. It reproduces by underground bulbs, consisting of 2-6 scales, in the axils of which are the kidneys. It is from them that new bulbs develop.

Rules for planting hazel grouse bulbs

• Boarding time
  - in September-October. If you are planting later, cover the soil and foliage for the winter. But it is impossible to plant much later, otherwise the plants will not grow or simply will not bloom.
• Pick-up location
  should be sunny or partial shade.
• Remember that any damage to the plant bulb will lead to a failure. Handle it with care and attention.
• Before landing, it is advisable process the onions with a solution of potassium permanganate
  , for example, and sprinkle with charcoal.
• Do not plant bulbs in too moist and cold soil, this can cause rotting. If there is a possibility of water stagnation at the planting site, make an embankment. It is necessary fill the bottom of the planting hole with coarse sand
  ... Fine sand will not work - there is a risk of rotting young roots.
• Planting depth
  is determined, like all bulbs: multiply the length of the bulb by 3 and plant. We plant the bulbs of low-growing hazel grouses to a depth of about 12 cm, tall ones - about 20 cm.
• It is better to place the bulbs in the hole sideways
  and sprinkle with sand - this will avoid the accumulation of moisture.
• The soil should be light and nutritious, with added.

Interesting Facts

• In winter, hazel grouses, like black grouse, spend the night in the snow cover.
• The hazel grouse population is decreasing, but still remains large and is not threatened with extinction. Up to 40 million individuals live in Russia.
• Grouse is an important game bird, its meat is considered a delicacy. In the past, hundreds of thousands of carcasses of this bird were exported from the Russian Empire and the USSR every year. Today hazel grouse remains a popular sport hunting object.

Reproduction of hazel grouse

There are two ways:

Reproduction of hazel grouse by seeds

• This method is suitable for all types of plants.
• The seeds can be harvested after the plant capsule is completely dry. It is recommended to sow them into the soil immediately after harvesting.
• The soil must be nutritious, as the hazel grouse will grow here for several years. Annually for seedlings are brought in.
• Planting depth of seeds - 1 cm.
• Seeds should be sown in furrows about 10 cm wide for good drainage. There should be the same distance between the rows. Sprinkle the seeds on top with a 2 cm layer of peat.
• Seedlings will appear next spring.
• Already biennial bulbs should be dug up and stored in a dry place in summer. This is done to protect them from soil moisture. This is a relatively complex process; some of the bulbs may die.
• If you grow moisture-resistant hazel grouse seedlings, they can be grown in one place for 4 years before flowering, then transplanted.

Vegetative propagation

One mother bulb can be divided into several replacement ones. In many species of hazel grouse, the main bulb increases in size and forms baby bulbs. It is these bulbs that have to grow for several years before flowering.The baby bulb is easily separated from the mother. You can dig up the bulbs once every two years, then the baby bulb to be separated will already be larger and it will be easy to separate it.
You can also artificially divide the onion. To do this, break the onion, which consists of two scales, dry the separated parts. Their resistance to drying is lower than that of whole bulbs, so we plant them earlier.

You can choose hazel grouse bulbs in our catalog, where products from various online stores are presented.

• (F. persica) strewn with many purple flowers.

The cultivar Ivory Bell has a yellow-green color. Plant height is about 1 m. It is very thermophilic and may not bloom at all in the middle lane.

• Hazel grouse
  (F. camtschatcensis) has purple or bronze flowers, grows up to 60 cm.

When breeding hazel grouses in your garden, do not forget - they look great both as a single plant and in groups. Suitable for disembarking. Planted in different places of the flower beds, they are also beautiful. And don't be discouraged that their bloom lasts only one month - this is an unforgettable period of summer. ...

Grouse flowers are perennial bulbous plants that are widespread in the gardens of the middle lane. A huge number of species and varieties of hazel grouse makes it possible to choose exactly those flowers that will perfectly fit into the composition of your flower bed. In addition, when growing hazel grouses, it is recommended that plants be transplanted quite often to a new place (once every 2-4 years), which means that every year you can admire these flowers in different parts of your garden.

Grouse is not only a beautiful, but also a useful flower for the garden. It has a specific smell that scares away rodents from the beds, which protects the planting of bulbous plants. This flower adorns a flower bed with tulips, daffodils, crocuses and hyacinths. Growing hazel grouse is not difficult, but planting and care must be timely.

1. Choose the right time for boarding. The optimal time for planting a plant is September-October. A later planting is undesirable, since the perennial simply will not bloom or grow.
2. Provide good illumination to the plant. It is better to plant hazel grouses in sunny areas or in places with sparse shade.
3. Only healthy corms are selected for planting. Any injury will become a source of infection and pests.
4. The planting material is well disinfected, treated with a solution of potassium permanganate or charcoal.
5. Planting holes must drain well. For this, coarse river sand is used. Drainage is required when growing hazel grouses, because the plant does not tolerate too moist soil and stagnant moisture at the roots.
6. Planting depth depends on the size of the bulb and the type of plant. Tall varieties are planted to a depth of three bulbs, and low-growing ones - two.
7. Planting of hazel grouse is carried out in nutritious and fertile soil, which is good for moisture and air. With insufficient looseness, sand, peat and humus are added to the soil.
8. The distance between large bulbs should be at least 20-30 cm, small ones are planted at a distance of up to 15 cm.

Choosing a bulb for planting

In order for the cultivation of hazel grouses to bring the desired result, it is necessary not only to know the rules of planting, but also to choose the right planting material.

All care for hazel grouses begins with the selection of bulbs. They are a flat ball that has a through hole, which can be seen in the photo. The weight of such a bulb ranges from 500 grams to 1 kg.

A bulb suitable for planting must be outwardly healthy, that is, it must not have visible cracks, traces of diseases, soft areas, and other things. The presence of roots and dry residue of last year's stem is allowed, which should not be removed.

Reproduction and transplantation of hazel grouse

In one place, hazel grouses can be grown for no more than four years, and after that they need to be transplanted.Ideally, you need to transplant hazel grouses once every two years, and on a site where bulbous crops have not been grown before, otherwise the risk of damage to flowers by diseases and pests increases. The preparation of the new site and the transplanting of the bulbs are carried out at the same time and in the same order as the initial planting.

The bulbs of my white hazel grouse grew every year. And then the moment came when I ventured to plant them from the muscari plantings.

The hazel grouse blooms in spring; then the flower dries up. In place of the flower, a seed box appears, and seeds ripen - large, round and flat. Once I collected the ripe seeds of my white hazel grouse and tried to sow them. Nothing happened to me with its seed reproduction ...

Then I just cut off the fading flowers of hazel grouse so that the plant's energy was not wasted on unnecessary seeds, thereby contributing to the better development of its baby bulbs.

I leave the stalk of the hazel grouse until it dries completely, which happens by August. That's when I decided to plant the overgrown plant. The bulbs of the hazel grouse were white, without scales, round and flat, three centimeters in diameter. All the hazel grouse bulbs looked healthy. But, just in case, after digging them, I processed them in a solution of potassium permanganate. Then I dried them a little and dropped them off.

I made a hole for planting hazel grouse bulbs in another corner of the garden, in a sunny place. I filled the hole with a nutritious substrate and planted the onions, placing them five centimeters apart.

It is known that all bulbs are planted to a depth equal to three dimensions of the height of the bulbs, so I covered them by about two centimeters. I planted the baby hazel grouse separately - it was much smaller than the onions.

Grouse used to be cramped in muscari plantings and, apparently, lacked nutrients. But next spring, having received space and the necessary food in a new place, my hazel grouse showed all its beauty. Its stems have become taller and thicker, the leaves are larger and juicier. And beautiful flowers cannot be described in words: double, triple, large! The most beautiful tulips in my garden could not overshadow the beauty of the white grouse!

For several years I have not touched my plantings of hazel grouse. They really do not need to be disturbed once again, they do not like it. And when, after a few years, the planting hole became clearly small for the overgrown hazel grouses, I planted them again - five large bulbs per nest. She put the small baby separately again.

Grouse care and flower reproduction

It is worth remembering that hazel grouses belong to the liliaceae family, therefore, care for them is carried out according to this principle.

• Watering is carried out as the soil dries up. Even after flowering, the plant needs timely watering. Watering once or twice a month is considered optimal.
• You need to fertilize a perennial twice a season. The first time feeding is carried out during the beginning of the growing season, before flowering, somewhere in early May. The second feeding comes immediately after flowering. Complex mineral fertilizers, humus, peat are used as top dressings. During the flowering period, it is useful to add wood ash to the root zone, which will provide the plant with the necessary amount of potassium.
• After flowering, the hazel grouse needs care. Already in July, the entire above-ground part is cut off.
• Grouse are propagated most often by dividing the bulbs. Bulbs for babies should be dug out in late June - early July, until the foliage is completely dry. As a rule, one or two daughter ones are formed on the mother bulb. The dug out bulbs are divided into children and disinfected with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. You can store the bulbs for a short time - for 2-3 weeks in a dry, ventilated room at an air temperature of no higher than 30 C. During storage, the bulbs begin to grow roots and shoots. Bulbs should be handled with extreme care as they do not have protective scales.For the same reason, it is necessary to plant the bulbs immediately after purchase in a store or market. Make sure that the bulbs are not overdried, such specimens are unlikely to germinate.

The place where the hazel grouses are grown, it should be noted that do not dig up the soil and do not injure the bulbs. Next year, beautiful flowers will grow there again. As you can see, planting and caring for hazel grouses is not too difficult and is within the power of a novice florist.

Planting and feeding grouse in spring

For the successful care and reproduction of hazel grouses, open sunny areas are chosen, but it is possible to grow flowers in partial shade. Therefore, they are suitable for planting under deciduous shrubs and trees, near a country house, a terrace and a gazebo, as well as on the western and southwestern slopes.

The soil for these plants requires fertile, well-drained. If you use humus for drainage, then fertilizers can be applied in smaller quantities, since rotted manure in itself is an excellent top dressing.

Top dressing of hazel grouse in the spring is done with a mixture of humus with peat in a ratio of 1: 3, as well as mineral fertilizers such as superphosphate and urea. When leaving and growing hazel grouses, the first feeding is done at the end of April, during the formation of buds. The next time the plants are fertilized after flowering with a solution of superphosphate and potassium sulfate.

In the spring, hazel grouses do not require abundant watering. Watering plants is necessary only in dry weather. Grouse can die due to regular waterlogging. Flowers must be cleared of weeds and the soil must be loosened.

When planting and caring for hazel grouses in the open field, loosen them carefully, because the roots of the plant may be at the very surface. Growing hazel grouse flowers in a dry summer involves frequent watering, even after the aerial part dies off, so that the bulbs in the ground do not dry out. It is enough to water it 1-2 times a month.

Hazel grouse after flowering

The stalk of the unknown plant soon straightened, and a large bud developed at the end of it. And when the bud opened, I was simply fascinated by the beauty of the flower!

The stalk of the unusual plant was low (about 20 cm), gray in color. The leaves are narrow, long, also with a bluish bloom. At the top of the stalk was a large bell-shaped flower with a lowered head.

At first, the flower bud was greenish, but as it bloomed it turned more and more white. And in the end, a pure white, very graceful flower bloomed. Against the background of blue muscari, he looked like a beautiful white swan!

For a very long time I could not find out the botanical name of my unexpected beauty. It turned out to be a chess hazel grouse. Before that, I met the hazel grouse only with dark brown flowers, with light veins of petals "in a box" (that's why this species of hazel grouse was called "chess"). But I came across a white hazel grouse for the first time, although I have been doing flowers for a long time.

I raised this wonderful flower with trepidation, fearing to lose it. I marked the exact place where my hazel grouse grows. And next year, two stalks of hazel grouse with four buds appeared in this place.

After the hazel grouses have faded, they do not immediately lose their attractiveness, however, by the beginning of July their greens begin to turn yellow and die off, and then you can start digging out the bulbs without waiting for the completion of the wilting of the ground part. The bulbs are removed, cleaned of soil and dead scales, washed in warm water, kept for half an hour in a pink solution of potassium permanganate, cut out spots of rot, gnawing and other damage from them, treat the wounds with fungicide, sprinkle them with wood ash and leave them in the shade to dry.

Dried hazel grouse bulbs are stored until the end of August or the beginning of September in a dry, well-ventilated room at a temperature not exceeding 30 ºC. During this time, the roots will grow on the bulbs, and they can be planted.During storage, the planting material is regularly examined, damaged or rotten places are identified and removed, and the sections are processed with crushed coal.

Growing and caring for hazel grouses in the open field

Grouse bulbs are planted and transplanted into open ground at the end of August - September. Planting depth - from 6 to 20 cm, depending on their size. The largest bulbs of hazel grouses are sometimes buried 30 cm, while the plants develop better. A distance of 20-30 cm is left between the holes, since the grouse bushes are quite large. Humus is poured at the bottom of the hole, and if the soil is heavy, coarse sand or wet peat is added. Since hazel grouses prefer neutral soil, liming or wood ash can be added before planting.

Grouse must not be planted in cool, rainy weather. The soil during planting should not be cold and wet, otherwise the bulbs and roots will quickly begin to rot.

Grouse bulbs have an unusual feature - they scare off moles and rodents. For this reason, these flowers are often planted for protective purposes around flower beds and fruit trees. The ideal option is to distribute groups of hazel grouses throughout the garden.

If you choose varieties of different shades and shapes for such plantings, the garden in the spring will always have an elegant look and at the same time have additional protection from pests.

Description

The scientific name of the plant is fritillaria, but among the people it is usually called hazel grouse because of the variegated color of the buds. Under natural conditions, there are about 150 different types of flowers - most of them grow in the middle zone of our country, as well as in Asian countries.

The plant is perennial, bulbous. The stem of hazel grouse in blooming state resembles a small palm - the plant is therefore sometimes also called the "paradise tree". The foliage has a lanceolate shape, in some species it is located in a separate group, and in some it is distributed evenly throughout the trunk.

The buds resemble bells, in most species they look down, can be located both singly and in a group. The color of the petals is always unusual, bright, sometimes dark, variegated.

The growing season of the plant is surprisingly short - it lasts only three weeks. However, not only for its visual appeal, fritillaria is valued by gardeners, but also for its specific aroma, which scares away moles and a bear from the site. The hazel grouse planted along the perimeter of the garden bed will protect cultivated plants from harmful rodents.

Types and varieties

Let's get acquainted with the most interesting varieties of hazel grouse for growing in the garden

Imperial

It is also called royal. The most popular species, most often found in gardens. The plant blooms very beautifully and magnificently, causing delight and admiration during this period of everyone who sees it.

The size of the flower is impressive - sometimes the stem reaches a meter in height. The bulb, on the other hand, sometimes reaches a kilogram weight and 20 centimeters in diameter. The buds in this case are located with a lush cap at the top of the plant. The color of the petals is often orange-red, bright and saturated (see photo).

Mikhailovsky

A miniature variety barely reaching 20 cm in height. The buds are graceful, have a dark burgundy shade and golden edging. The petals are very dense and smooth, they shine in the sun. Minus - low frost resistance.

Chess

The plant reaches a height of 25-30 cm, has a bell-shaped bud with an unusual color. The general tone of the petals is burgundy, there are many specks and specks of a lighter shade. The impression is that, indeed, a miniature chessboard is applied on the petals.

This variety can be propagated by both bulbs and seeds. The hazel grouse is famous for its unpretentious character.

Persian

A beautiful graceful plant, up to a meter high. The buds in this case are located literally along the entire length of the stem, have the shape of a bell. One plant can have 25-30 buds.

It is a very thermophilic variety, therefore it is not suitable for regions with cool and temperate climates. Of course, it can grow, but it will most likely refuse to bloom in cool weather.

Russian

The height of the variety reaches 40 cm. One stem gives 3-4 buds, resembling drooping bells. The peculiarity is that the upper leaves of the plant take the form of tendrils and cling to neighboring grasses and bushes. Thus, the Russian hazel grouse develops, stretches up.

Kamchatka

A very interesting subspecies. It reaches half a meter in height, it can boast of only one bud - but very beautiful. The shade of the petals is bright purple, contrasting yellow stamens are visible inside. The species is also unusual in that it prefers to grow in moist, peaty soil.

Features of cultivation

When preparing a seat for hazel grouses, it is important to remember: they do not tolerate stagnant water, because these are steppe and mountain plants! Repeated freezing and thawing of waterlogged soil in early spring and late autumn destroys their bulbs! Therefore, in an area where groundwater is located close, before planting, it is imperative to make drainage with a layer of 20-30 cm from crushed stone, broken brick or coarse sand. We prepare the top layer of the soil substrate with fertile, loose, well-flavored leaf humus (preferably from linden or hazel).

So, the planting site was prepared, purchased bulbs ready to bloom this spring or flowering plants in pots. Next, we plant only the bulbs. Planting depth of large bulbs 15 cm, distance between plants 35-45 cm; for small bulbs - 10 cm, the distance between plants is 15 cm. We bury the plant in the ground in the garden right with the pot and admire the flowering. We will plant it in a permanent place at the end of August (in the southern regions - in May), when the leaves naturally fade and turn yellow. It is then that the very tender point of growth of the bulb will no longer be so vulnerable.

Low-growing hazel grouses: p. Russian, p. chess, p. yellow is quite winter-hardy and can winter in central Russia without shelter. Tall species: r. imperial, p. Persian (F. persica

) require shelter with dry foliage, spruce branches.

When breeding hazel grouses, it is important to remember: cultivated species and forms are propagated by baby bulbs, and wild ones - by seeds. Plants from large bulbs bloom in a year, from small ones - after 2 years, small-bulbous species from seeds - for 4-5 years, large-bulbous ones from seeds - for 7-8 years. Interesting: the hazel grouse bulbs have an unpleasant, pungent odor, which is believed to scare off moles.

Important to remember

: hazel grouse seeds do not tolerate drying out, so they are sown immediately after harvest. Better yet, bury a ripe and already cracked at the seams, but not dry box, 1-2 cm into the soil. Further, it is necessary to keep this place moist, avoiding waterlogging! The soil around them is loosened, during the growing season we carry out 1-2 additional fertilizing with full mineral fertilizer.

Growing conditions

We will learn how to choose a place for planting hazel grouse, and what conditions this plant needs.

Location and lighting

You should choose a place for an unusual flower, well warmed by the sun, covered with a small rarefied shadow. Many varieties are also good for direct sun - they can be planted in completely open areas.

Plants do not tolerate waterlogged areas, those where groundwater accumulates, so they should not be planted in such places. It is better to choose a site on a slight hill. This advice is especially relevant for cool climates: water that repeatedly freezes and melts can destroy hazel grouse bulbs.

Temperature and humidity

Most of the species of this plant are quite thermophilic, and some will not be able to develop normally at all at cool temperatures. For the winter, the bulbs are supposed to be dug out. You can also leave it for the winter in the ground, but only under cover.

Soil composition

Plant hazel grouses in a garden bed with fertile, well-permeable soil. It is best to fertilize the soil with leaf humus - in this case, drainage of the soil will be provided, and less nutrition and fertilizers will be needed.

If groundwater is close to it, be sure to take care of drainage. The drainage layer can be formed from crushed stone, brick chips, coarse river sand. The thickness of such a protective layer should be 20-30 cm.

Varieties and types of hazel grouse

Below are descriptions and photos of different species of hazel grouse. The color of these wonderful flowers is quite varied.

The color range of the plant fluctuates in red-yellow-orange tones. There are no blue, purple and black varieties of the imperial hazel grouse. Peduncles are high, more than 1 meter. Flowering occurs in May.

Chess hazel grouse

The hazel grouse is a perennial plant. Stem 15-35 cm high, smooth or with sparse tubercles. All leaves are alternate, their number is from two to six, located in the upper part of the stem, linear-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, obtuse at the end, 8-13 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, semi-stemming at the base, the upper ones are smaller and narrower ... The flower is usually single, drooping, with a sharp checkerboard pattern of dark purple color on a pink or whitish background. Differs in red-burgundy flowers with white spots, which are staggered.

Grouse Striped Beauty

Grouse Striped Beauty is a perennial plant 90-100 cm high. The flower is beautiful, bright yellow, with burgundy stripes stretching along large but delicate petals, like fragile veins in which life pulsates. It looks a lot like big bells. Flowers are collected in inflorescences. The variety has a delicate aroma.

Grouse Rubra is the smallest variety. Its height very rarely exceeds 60 cm.This is a plant with red brick shades and crimson strokes inside the flowers, the petals of which with weakly expressed veins reach a size of 6.5 cm by 4 cm.In the lower part of the plant there are leaves of an unconventional shape, and at the very top there are flowers in the form of bells, which are framed with small leaves.

Russian hazel grouse

the plant is listed in the Red Book. Blooms in March-April.

undersized variety, the height of which does not exceed 20 cm. The flowers are burgundy with a yellow border.

The river is very attractive. Mikhailovsky (F. michailowskyi)

, small brownish-purple flowers of which are bordered with a wide yellow border. Outfits p. Russian (
F. ruthenica
) with dark crimson flowers, decorated with thin green stripes and p. Olga (
F. olgae
) with a brownish-green perianth, along the petals of which there are reddish spots and a border, are very fashionable!

Persian hazel grouse

a very thermophilic variety that does not bloom in central Russia. The color of the flowers is lemon yellow. Stem height up to 1 meter.

Kamchatka hazel grouse

Flowers of a perennial burgundy color, stem height up to 60 cm.

Yellow hazel grouse

flowers have a checkerboard pattern on a yellow background.

Aureomarginata is a rare, but very beautiful variety: not only does it have a beautiful orange-red hue, but also the leaves have a golden frame

Grouse Prolifera

flowers orange-red

Grouse 'Lutea'

flowers are yellow

Grouse Maximovich (F. maximowiczii)

Maksimovich's hazel grouse (F. maximowiczii) with purple flowers, broad-leaved hazel grouse (F. latifolia)

with chocolate brown flowers.

• (F. imperialis) with lemon or orange inflorescences. The leaves are sharp and shiny. Reaches a height of 1 m. Flowering begins in May.

• Chess hazel grouse, or large hazel grouse
  (F. meleagris) with reddish-brown flowers in the form of bells. There are staggered specks inside the flowers.

• (F. ruthenica) with upper leaves twisted in the form of tendrils. Has a high stem. Grouse blooms in March-April. Listed in the Red Book.

• (F. michailovskyi) has burgundy flowers with a yellow edge. The height of the hazel grouse is about 20 cm.

Grouse

Mikhailovsky

(F. persica) strewn with many purple flowers.

Grouse Persian

The cultivar Ivory Bell has a yellow-green color. Plant height is about 1 m. It is very thermophilic and may not bloom at all in the middle lane.

• Hazel grouse
  (F. camtschatcensis) has purple or bronze flowers, grows up to 60 cm.

Kamchatka hazel grouse (Fritillaria camschatcensis). Photo: Denis Anisimov, ru.wikipedia.org

When breeding hazel grouses in your garden, do not forget - they look great both as a single plant and in groups. Suitable for alpine landings. Planted in different places of the flower beds, they are also beautiful. And don't be discouraged that their bloom lasts only one month - this is an unforgettable period of summer.

Common types

Grouse Severtsova (Bonasa sewerzowi)

The body length of the bird is from 33 to 36 cm. Males are slightly larger than females, their weight ranges from 290 to 375 g, while in females from 270 to 310 g. The plumage is the same as that of the common hazel grouse.

The species lives in the mountains in southeast China, which border the Tibetan plateau. The bird lives in mixed forests with an abundance of dead wood.

Collar grouse (Bonasa umbellus)

The body length of the species is from 43 to 48 cm. The wingspan is 60 cm, the beak is about 2 cm. The weight is in the range from 500 to 650 g (it can reach 800 g). The plumage of the collared hazel grouse, living in the southern borders of the range, is dominated by red-brown color, and gray plumage is characteristic of northern birds. The color is variegated, consists of spots and stripes on the upper body. The abdomen is yellowish-gray. The beak is dark brown. Paws are yellow-gray.

The bird lives in North America: in the USA, in Alaska, in Canada, in coniferous and deciduous forests, as well as along roads, in meadows and arable lands, and even on rocks covered with vegetation.

Diseases and problems when growing hazel grouses

Grouse have good immunity. With proper agricultural technology, they are practically not damaged by diseases. The only rule is to avoid planting in wet areas where there is a risk of bulb rot.

If part of the bulb is still rotten, then the plant can be saved. The damaged area is cut out to healthy tissue, the cut is treated with a fungicide. The bulb is completely disinfected in a solution of potassium permanganate, dried and only then planted.

Grouse are exotic plants

, but rather unpretentious. They tolerate frost well, and early shoots do not need shelter. However, the plants absolutely cannot withstand drafts and northern winds. When planning the planting of hazel grouses in the garden, it is necessary to provide them with protection.

In winter mulching

need young bulbs. For this, spruce branches or a layer of peat, dry leaves are used. In winter, the roots of the plant rise to the topsoil, so low temperatures can be harmful.

In the spring you need

increased attention to seedlings. So that they do not get out, all the mulch is pushed aside. Frosts down to -5 degrees are not terrible for the plant, but temperature drops under the mulch layer will harm.

When harvesting in spring, they try not to touch the soil so as not to harm the roots. There is no need to loosen the ground.

If hazel grouses do not bloom, then the reason lies not only in improper planting and care, but also in the bulb itself.

Small tubers do not produce flowers or their flowering is very poor. When buying, you need to pay attention to the size of the bulb: the larger it is, the more flowers it will subsequently give. The diameter of such a bulb must be more than 8 cm.

Growing hazel grouse (fritillaria) and caring for them does not present any particular difficulties for gardeners, when planting them in open ground, you just need to carefully choose a place: these flowers love the sun or a little shade, nutritious soil, not very abundant, but regular watering.

How to care

After planting, you need to know exactly what care the hazel grouse needs in the open field.

Watering

Flowers need moisture only during the growing season.Water sparingly and only when needed. Monitor the condition of the top layer of the soil and, when it dries out thoroughly, carry out the moistening procedure.

With a dry summer, watering will be required more frequent, with a rainy one - on the contrary. Excessive drying must also not be allowed - flowers can crumble, lose their decorative effect.

Top dressing

During the growing season, additional food for hazel grouses is introduced several times. For the first time, feeding is carried out in early spring: mineral granular fertilizer is scattered right on top of the snow that has not yet completely melted.

When the snow melts, the soil is loosened, after which the bulbs are waiting for germination. When budding begins, Agricola is added. After flowering, the soil is fertilized with ash or potassium, you can also add superphosphate.

Loosening, mulching

The soil is loosened after watering, when a hard crust forms on top of it. Do not forget that for full-fledged growth and development, hazel grouses need permeable soil. Mulching is also done after watering: peat is usually used for this purpose.

Many gardeners are afraid to loosen the soil in the garden with this plant, since the roots of the hazel grouse are delicate and superficial. Therefore, if you are afraid of loosening, be sure to mulch the garden bed.

Pruning

It is produced only after the final flowering, wilting, seed ripening and the final loss of the plant of its decorative effect. Pruning the aboveground part is an important step in preparing the hazel grouse for winter.

Grouse: varieties and varieties

Fritillaria - translated from Latin means "glass" or "glass", this name is associated with the shape of the flower - a large, bright, shaped like a glass or a bowl.

The hazel grouse got its popular name - "chessboard" due to the appearance of a "chessboard" perennial in color: its buds look like the cells of a chessboard with uniform alternation of colors. This variegated variety gave the entire genus fritillaria the Russian name "hazel grouse", from the word "speckled".

Grouse "checkerboard" - one of the most unusual flowers that are easy to grow by yourself

The varieties of hazel grouses are very numerous, currently about 180 species are known, which mainly grow in European countries with a temperate climate, in western Asia and in the North American states. Reproduction of hazel grouses is carried out vegetatively and by seeds.

Varieties of hazel grouse differ in color of its flowers, in size, in flowering time, among them there are inconspicuous, tiny plants, and there are also gorgeous giant varieties, but the "chess" variety is very popular among amateur gardeners.

General information

The plant propagates mainly with the help of bulbs. The bulb of the plant is a pair of large expanded scales, which are updated every year. Bulbs do not have protective scales, therefore, you need to be careful with them when planting.

The shoots of the plant are covered with narrow oblong leaves, the arrangement of the leaves is irregular. Inflorescences the plant throws out 3-4 flowers on one shoots, but there are also single ones. In shape, the flower resembles a large bell. The color of the inflorescences, depending on the variety, is orange, lilac, scarlet or light.

Grouse is an ephemeroid flower on each of its leaf bases inside there is a nectary in the shape of a round, oval or triangular. After flowering, the fruits appear - this is a seed capsule, like a hexagon.

Planting a plant

Like all perennials, sun-loving hazel grouses, planting and caring for which does not require any special effort, prefer fertile, well-drained soil.

Previously, compost or humus is introduced into the planting hole, in proportions - half a bucket of compost per 1 sq. m of plot, then drainage is laid, it can be sand or sifted humus, then a perennial bulb is placed.

When planting, be sure to straighten the roots. If the variety is undersized, then the bulb is buried to a depth of 6-10 cm, if tall varieties are planted, to a depth of 30 cm.In groups, the distance between small bulbs is 10-15 cm, between large ones should be at least 30 cm.

Hazel grouse

Growing some varieties outdoors can be done in slightly shaded areas, for example, hazel grouse grows well in sunny areas and in the shade. Grouse "chess" love that ash or lime was placed in the hole during planting.

Planting fritillaria is carried out at the very beginning of autumn, when roots appear at the bottom of the perennial bulbs, but it is not worth delaying, since the hazel grouses will not have time to bloom in May.

Fertilizers for hazel grouse

The plant must be fed with dry complex fertilizers for flowering garden plants, mixing with humus, in the proportion of one spoonful of fertilizer with 12 liters of dry mullein. Then it is scattered over the site and then watered.

After flowering with the onset of cold weather, it is necessary to feed with fertilizer with the addition of potassium and superphosphate. Everything is mixed in equal proportions and scattered over the site and watered abundantly.

As a care, it is necessary to weed out the weeds and loosen the soil carefully without touching the bulbs.

Plant care

The soil around this perennial plant should be covered with peat in order to avoid drying out in the heat, for example, in rockeries or rock gardens. Loosening the ground is not worth it, you can damage the roots located at the surface. After the flower has faded, if seeds are not needed, it must be removed so that the plant does not deplete.

Mulch the soil around the hazel grouse and ensure proper watering

As a rule, in winter, if there is little snow, the plantings of fritillaria are covered with spruce branches or reeds to avoid freezing of the bulbs. However, the varieties of "checkerboard" hazel grouse are quite unpretentious, do not require special care, and they are not very afraid of frost. If you plant them in early September so that they take root well before frost, then you do not need to cover them in winter.

Attention! Delicate "chess" hazel grouse needs a lot of sun. When grown in partial shade, the flower feels bad, blooms little. The flowers will be small even if the crop is properly cared for.

Landing

We will find out when and how to plant a hazel grouse flower in the garden.

Timing

It is recommended to choose an autumn planting for this plant. The optimal time is September-October. Consider only the climate of your particular region, since the plant should take root in the ground before frost.

Preparation

Prepare the area properly: dig it up, loosen it, if necessary, take care of drainage and apply the necessary fertilizers.

Planting material should be carefully selected. Inspect the bulbs for only whole, healthy and free from rot. Discard damaged and rotten specimens.

After preliminary selection, the bulbs should be disinfected. To do this, you need to soak the planting material in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 20-30 minutes or simply treat it with charcoal powder.

Planting process

Dig holes for the bulbs in the prepared bed. Each depression must be provided with a drainage layer: use river coarse sand for drainage.

Deepen the planting material as follows: tall varieties are planted to a depth of 3 bulbs, low varieties - 2 bulbs. The distance between the onions should be 20-30 cm, if we are talking about undersized varieties, then 15 cm is enough. Sprinkle the planting material with earth, water.

Reproduction of hazel grouse

Reproduction of fritillaria occurs vegetatively

, annually planted bulbs are replaced with new ones, and a daughter one is formed. The number of children depends on the perennial variety.

Bulbs of the "chess" variety are dug up and divided not every year; it is enough to do this once every 6-7 years. During this growing period, they do not stop blooming, but the peduncles no longer become. Such large-bulbous varieties as imperial, Persian, pale-flowered varieties are dug every year. Grouse with small bulbs (fox-berry, Mikhailovsky) can not be dug for 3-4 years, while covering with black material to warm the bulbs.

The easiest way to breed hazel grouses is to plant bulbs

If desired, the reproduction of hazel grouses, including "chess" ones, is carried out and from seed

... For seed pods to ripen, favorable weather is required, if there is a lot of rain in spring, then the seeds can rot. In a warm place, in the open ground or in a greenhouse, a separate bed is prepared with fertile soil mixed with humus from the foliage. Seeds are planted in grooves, to a depth of 1 cm, the distance between them is 10 cm.On top, the seeds should be sprinkled with a layer of peat up to 2 cm.Cultivation of the bulbs lasts until next year, then, after the leaves dry, they are dug up and stored in a ventilated room until autumn. The bulbs of these perennial plants need to be warmed up at a temperature of about 30 degrees for several weeks in a greenhouse.

Hazel grouse seeds

The flowering of fritillaria grown from seed begins at 4-5 years, and in large hazel grouses - only at 7-8 years. Watering is moderate, the soil should be moist, but not damp, then it is generally better to reduce watering to 2 times a month. You need to feed the seedlings in the twenties of April and at the beginning of June, after flowering, with complex fertilizers in dry form.

Advice! You should not buy already flowering perennials for planting, they are often sold. Such a hazel grouse, even if it does not die, is very difficult to grow until the next flowering. It is for the "chess" variety that the bulbs are not overdried - the dry ones are no longer viable.

Reproduction of hazel grouse by bulbs gives a good repeatability of varietal traits; with the seed method, this is not always possible to achieve.

Breeding features

In terms of amateur gardening, it is preferable to propagate hazel grouses vegetatively: by dividing the bulbs. Theoretically, seed reproduction is also possible, however, it is much more troublesome and time-consuming.

Note that the vegetative method is not too simple, since it gives fritillaria daughter bulbs reluctantly. For example, the royal hazel grouse for the season, at best, will give only a couple of children. In addition, after the separation of the children, they must still grow to a mature state before planting. Sometimes gardeners even prefer to tinker with seeds rather than bulbs.

Seed reproduction

You can buy seeds at the store or pick them yourself if the hazel grouses are already growing in the garden. Collect the pods before they are fully ripe, otherwise they may crack and the seeds spill out.

Sowing is done immediately after the seeds have ripened. It is necessary to choose a light and nutritious soil for planting. Deepening is done by 5 cm. Immediately, simultaneously with sowing, feed the plants by adding a weak solution of flower fertilizers.

Water the plantings, and cover the container with plastic wrap. Seedlings can be expected only next year in the spring. After the sprouts appear, they are left to grow in the same container until 2-3 years have passed. If the seeds are planted too densely, thin out the seedlings.

Diseases and pests

The hazel grouses are not afraid of pests due to the sharp unpleasant smell of the bulbs; they smell like fresh horse dung. This smell scares off mice, rats and moles. The pest of this perennial is the leaf beetle - a red beetle that eats flowering buds and leaves. It is collected and treated with insecticides. Slugs are also very harmful to hazel grouse, and wireworms can pierce bulbs.

Beetle beetle

The hazel grouse are resistant to diseases, they do not suffer from viral diseases, like tulips and crocuses. Bulbs can rot from cold and wet weather, but rotten places can be cut off and treated with ash, coal, alcohol or even brilliant green, and dried.

Description and characteristics of the species

Chess grouse or Fritillaria meleagris is a herbaceous perennial bulbous plant from the genus of hazel grouse of the lily family. A typical plant of this species can be described as follows.

• Bulb... This is the main organ that helps the hazel grouse maintain the status of a perennial plant. In the checkerboard hazel grouse, it has a spherical, but somewhat flattened shape.The dimensions are small - only about 10 mm in diameter. From above it is covered with a brown film shell.
• Stem... Not tall - on average about 25 cm, usually has a smooth surface with a few tubercles.
• Sheet... The arrangement of the leaves is alternate, the shape is linear-lanceolate, the number is no more than six pieces. In length, leaf blades reach an average of 10 cm, in width - 10 mm.
• Flower... In wild plants, it is solitary and drooping. Varietal specimens may have two or even three flowers. The shape of the flower is bell-shaped, the lobes of the bell are oblong-elliptical, slightly narrowed at the top, of the same size. The color is dark purple with cells on a pinkish background. The inside of the bell is painted in yellowish-white shades.
• Seeds... They are packed in a triangular box. Fruiting and growing season ends in July.

Reproduction of two types - vegetative, occurring with the help of new bulbs, which are laid in the axils of bulbous scales, as well as generative, that is, seed.

The use of fritillaria in landscape design

Grouse varieties "checkerboard" are often used in the landscape design of garden and backyard plots. An ideal place for this variety of hazel grouse due to its low growth on alpine slides and in rockeries. In an ordinary flower bed, these delicate "birds" will simply get lost.

Grouse combined with tulips

Varieties of "checkerboard" hazel grouse can be used to decorate the lawn, planting them in separate islands, but it is impossible to mow such a lawn until the end of flowering, the hazel grouse will stop blooming. The neighbors of these checkered flowers used in garden landscaping can, in principle, be other low perennial flowers that require less intensive watering, for example, phlox or primroses. Various photos of landscape compositions with the participation of chess flowers can be found in electronic and printed publications.

Other species, taller, such as Persian hazel grouse, fit well into the composition of the garden in group plantings with tulips, anemones, crested crestedlings - along the paths and in the flower beds. And the combination of imperial hazel grouse with undersized shrubs, conifers and climbing perennials is actively used in landscape design when creating mixborders and ridges.

Grouse in landscape design

In conclusion, we can say that speckled flowers have been pleasing to the eye in gardens for a very long time, however, for some gardeners these perennial bulbs do not bloom, but it is not the flowers that are to blame, but the owners of the garden, who do not take into account the simple features of growing this rather unpretentious plant.

Where dwells

Grouse is widespread in the forests of Eurasia: from Western Europe to the Kolyma ridge, Japan and Korea. The western nesting sites are located in the east of France and Belgium. The southeastern border of the range includes Altai, Khangai, Khentei, Big Khingan and Korea. Also hazel grouse is found on the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido

The total number of the hazel grouse population is decreasing due to the influence of humans on wildlife, therefore, its habitat is often disrupted.

Grouse is a forest bird that settles in mixed forests with rugged terrain, streams, ravines, glades.

Grouse species: photo

This original flower is increasingly found in garden plots. Even among the huge variety of garden flowers, it stands out for its unusual look, it seems exotic. Our gardeners especially like imperial hazel grouse and chess grouse.

- a powerful plant, with very strong stems from 60 to 120 cm high.At the top of the peduncle is a crest, or a cap, of beautiful green leaves, under them are inflorescences similar to an umbrella and consisting of large drooping bell-shaped or cupped flowers 5-7 cm in size ...

The color of flowers can be very different: yellow, red, white, orange, and lighter, and more saturated color, and with veins, and with a border. You can't take your eyes off the flowering hazel grouses planted in a group against the background of the lawn or between the bushes! You can admire them endlessly, but you should not smell - the plant has a very unpleasant odor.But, perhaps, thanks to this very shortcoming, the hazel grouse gained fame as a plant that scares off mice and other rodents.

Tall hazel grouse is not suitable for rocky hills. It belongs to low varieties with petals in a box, it is also a very cute and quite popular flower. With a height of 30 to 50 cm, it is very good for rockeries and also looks good against the background of the lawn. Especially beautiful are flowers in a white-lilac box and white-purple in a brown box. Pure white bells look very delicate.

Why does not it bloom

It sometimes happens that a seemingly healthy plant refuses to release buds. Why this is happening, and what to do with the problem, we will find out further.

Waterlogging

The most common cause of the problem. The risk of a lack of flowers is especially great if waterlogging is combined with a cool air temperature. To avoid the problem, you need to set up an irrigation schedule, and after the next collection of bulbs, warm them up a little under the sun.

Small planting material

If flowering does not occur in newly planted hazel grouses, it may be due to poor-quality planting material. If the diameter of the onion has not yet reached 0.5 cm, there is no need to wait for flowering. The plant will first spend all its strength on increasing the volume of the bulb.

No transplant

If the bulbs are not dug up or divided for several seasons, the plants may also refuse to bloom. This is due to the formation of children, taking away nutrients and strength from the mother hazel grouse. Dig up the bulbs after flowering and divide as needed: this approach will avoid the problem.

So, we learned what flowers such as hazel grouses are. This is a great option for a flower bed: unusual, original and memorable. Even if the hazel grouse does not bloom for so long, it manages to decorate the garden with its presence, moreover, it serves as an excellent repeller for harmful rodents.

The legend of the hazel grouse

The last of the names is associated with an amazing legend about the betrayal of Jesus Christ.

It seems that before the flowers of hazel grouse were blooming only white corollas, looking into the sky.

When they led past the captive Christ, he looked at the flowers with such sadness that they immediately blushed with shame and lowered their imperial crowns down.

His mother Maria, upon learning that her son had been betrayed to be crucified, sobbed inconsolably and bitterly. And the flower cried with her, which is why drops of nectar are still dripping so abundantly down to the ground.

Application

Chess hazel grouse has long been grown as an ornamental plant, since in beauty it is second only to the spectacular imperial hazel grouse. In Western Europe, this species has been known in culture since 1519, where it gained wide popularity almost immediately. In 1600-1603, the artist Jacob de Gein the Younger depicted the hazel grouse in one of his still lifes. However, in the 19th century, this plant was somewhat inferior in popularity to exotics brought from colonial countries.

In modern floriculture, this type is used to decorate flower beds, rock gardens, and arrange bouquets. Several varieties and forms have been bred, including those with white, pink, bright purple, full flowers.

In the past, hazel grouse corms were used in folk medicine to treat cough, fever, lung abscess, as an antipyretic, and the like. An alcoholic tincture was made from the plant, there is evidence that even raw corms were eaten. However, such methods of application raise doubts, since the poisonous alkaloid imperialin was discovered by biochemists in the underground organs of hazel grouse. When using untreated corms, possible circulatory disorders, convulsions, vomiting, and small children are even threatened with cardiac arrest. In case of poisoning, antispasmodics must be administered.

Natural growing conditions

In natural conditions, hazel grouse is found almost throughout Europe, with the exception of regions with tundra and steppe vegetation.

In Russia, this species is distributed throughout the European part. The exception is all the same zones of tundra and dry steppes. Such an area is explained by the attachment of the species to the zone of deciduous or mixed forests..

Here, rare specimens of the checkered flower are found under the canopy of the forest, in meadows, in damp lowlands. In mountainous areas, their location is associated with attachment to damp areas. This plant can occupy foothills, well-moistened slopes with meadow communities, mountain plateaus at an altitude of up to 3000 meters above sea level.

Fritillaria "Uva Vulpis" and meleagris

An unusual bloom is represented by the "Uva Vulpis" fritillaria, also known as the Assyrian species. The petals of her flower are colored brown on the outside, and the inside is olive-colored. Plants cannot be called tall, the maximum height of specimens is up to 60 cm.

The variegated hazel grouse or fritillaria meleagris, as well as the Chess species, are one of the most popular groups that can only be compared in popularity to the Imperial one. The height of the plant is from 20 to 40 cm. The varietal form is considered undersized. On a slightly leafy stem, buds with a graphic color of the petals are formed. The most popular varieties:

1. "Alba" - snow-white flowers;
2. "Artemius" - emerald colored petals, checkerboard dots give the impression of snakeskin;
3. "Mars" - buds of a dark purple hue;
4. "Saturn" - light square spots on the red-violet surface.

Fertilization and feeding

In early spring, these perennial plants need feeding. Nitrogen-containing fertilizer is applied to the soil in a dry form, and during the period when flowers appear, hazel grouses need to be fed with mineral fertilizer - 1 tbsp. spoon per square meter. Wood ash or chicken droppings can be added in the same proportions.

Feed the crop annually before and during flowering

Name

This is a plant that begins to bloom among the first spring flowers and can often be seen in our people's gardens. He was nicknamed hazel grouse, because the bud has a rather bright color, you can rarely find monochromatic shades of flowers.

In Latin, his name sounds like Fritillus, which literally translates as "glass for dice"

Fritillus

Hazel grouse lifestyle

Many people think that hazel grouse is a migratory bird, of course not! This representative of the order of chickens leads a sedentary lifestyle, and does not fly away to any warm lands. Grouse is not familiar with long-distance migration.

The diet

The diet of hazel grouse consists mainly of plants, although in the summer, it can eat insects. But in winter this little bird has a bad time. The food is mostly poor in nutrition. Frost. He has to hide under the snow - to bury himself in the snowdrifts. This is used by hunters: the so-called winter hunting on holes.

Hazel grouse as an ornamental plant

Grouse fritillaria has been known since the 16th century. Cultural specimens have 2-3 flowers. Some of the flower species have been cultivated in gardens since the Middle Ages. And although at the moment only about 30 species have been introduced into culture, not all of them are able to attract attention. The most widely used are hazel grouse and imperial hazel grouse.

Many flower growers have heard about the hazel grouse. The most rarely grown species are Russian and Kamchatka hazel grouse.

Appearance and features

Photo: bird hazel grouse

Ptah has a peculiar appearance, who once saw her is unlikely to confuse. She, with a low weight - about 500 grams, looks rather plump, while the head is rather small. This impression is reinforced by a small (10 mm) black beak with a slightly curved tip.

The bird is dressed in rather variegated plumage. The variegation consists of white, gray, black and reddish spots, which merge into stripes, semicircles, but from a distance it looks monotonously grayish, slightly tinted red, the legs are gray. The color masks the hazel grouse well. The neck in males is black, and in females it is similar to the general coloration of the breast.

Around the black eyes there is a burgundy-red outline, which is brighter in males. For males, a crest on the head is characteristic, in females it is not so pronounced, and they are slightly smaller in size.By winter, the bird, acquiring a more magnificent outfit, becomes lighter, the updated feathers have a wider light border. This helps the birds to better camouflage themselves among the snow-covered forest.

If you look at the tracks in the snow, you can see three fingers pointing forward and one backward, that is, like a normal chicken, but much smaller. The average step of the bird is about 10 cm.

Natural enemies

Most of all, this feathered game suffers from the sable, which prefers hazel grouse to another bird and eats up to 25 of its carcasses during the winter.... So, in the column "death of hazel grouse by natural reasons ”(for certain regions of Siberia) sable accounts for about 80%. The second serious enemy is the marten, which periodically creates stocks from the hazel grouses killed by it. The threat also comes from the wild boar: it does not know how to catch adult hazel grouses, but eats dozens of their eggs, finding clutches in inaccessible places.

Also, such predators hunt hazel grouse:

• fox;
• hobby;
• small buzzard;
• eagle;
• owl;
• hawk;
• golden eagle;
• goshawk.

The bird's ability to burrow into the snow often saves it from birds, but not from four-legged predators. In the night shelters of hazel grouse, weasels are easily found, for example, ermine, weasel, ferret and wolverine. True, sometimes the bird still manages to escape from the beast thanks to the long snowy path, which gives time to realize the danger and escape.

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Chess grouse is an interesting and unpretentious bulbous plant up to 30 cm high. Of particular interest are flowers in the form of bells with a dark mesh pattern, somewhat reminiscent of a honeycomb. When the hazel grouse blooms, I want to look at the drawing on its petals for a long time: it is so symmetrical that it seems as if it were printed. Flowering lasts about two weeks, in cool weather - a little longer and falls in mid-May.

Hazel grouse varieties

All varieties of hazel grouse are absolutely winter-hardy in the Moscow region. They can be planted in groups of varieties or combined in one place with dark and white varieties.

Dark varieties look spectacular Jupiter, Mars, Orion and Saturnus... White-flowered varieties are good against their background. Alba and Aphrodite... The most contrasting - Sharon and Atemis, large “honeycombs” of dark color are applied on a light background.

Planting hazel grouse

When purchasing bulbs, carefully examine the planting material: there should be no dried or brown scales on it. Often small-bulbous plants are sold in opaque packages, then I determine the quality of the planting material by weight and choose a heavier package: live bulbs are lightweight, and dried and unsuitable for planting are weightless.

Place for planting hazel grouse

Chess hazel grouse looks spectacular on alpine hills or against the background of dwarf conifers. For the plant, planting in the sun or in light partial shade is preferable. In full shade, the hazel grouse gradually stops blooming, and then disappears. When placing a hazel grouse near conifers, you need to observe that over time their branches do not close and shade the plants, otherwise it will have to be transplanted.

Grouse grouse is not picky about soil fertility, it grows well on wet peatlands with a high level of groundwater in the Moscow region, and is a real find for planting in swampy areas.

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Planting dates for hazel grouse

The plant bulbs purchased in the store are planted immediately after purchase - they can be found on the shelves from the beginning of August. Bulbs are often sold at a discount until mid-October, however, you should not be tempted to make such a purchase, this is already completely dried planting material, which cannot be reanimated. Bulbs of all types of hazel grouse dry quickly outside the soil, therefore, in store conditions, they can remain alive for no more than a month, they can be purchased until mid-September.

If you need to transplant the hazel grouse in your garden, then the best time for this is the moment of lodging and yellowing of the leaves. There is no need to wait for the leaves to die off completely - there is a risk of making a mistake with the planting site and damaging the bulbs during digging.

How to plant hazel grouse

To plant the hazel grouse correctly, I prepare a sandy pillow of river or ordinary sand with a layer of 10 cm and fall asleep on top of it. I place the bulbs with a slight tilt to the side so that water does not stagnate in the recess of the bulb. I fill up the plantings with compost, while the bulbs are buried by 5-7 cm.

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Chess hazel grouse care

The hazel grouse in the Moscow region is an ideal bulbous plant. Unlike the imperial hazel grouse, it does not need to be dug out annually to dry. The plant can grow in one place without transplanting for up to 10 years. The hazel grouse is such an unpretentious perennial plant and grateful in its care that it will successfully lay the foundation for collecting other interesting species.

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Grouse pruning

After flowering, if there are no plans for seed reproduction, the faded hazel grouse inflorescences must be cut off. Seed formation takes a lot of energy from the plant, and if the seed pods are left to ripen, then flowering the next year may be weaker.

Top dressing of hazel grouse

The hazel grouse has a short growing season, like most spring bulbous ones, so it does not need feeding. In early spring or autumn, I mulch planting hazel grouse with compost and do not add more fertilizers. This care provides the plant with additional nutrition and helps to keep the bulbs intact in case of a snowless frost.

Svetlana Samoilova, amateur florist, collector of rare plants

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Origin

The origin of hazel grouses is quite extensive. and is divided into several areas:

• The first direction is hazel grouse, which came from the Mediterranean and Western Europe. The most common type in this case "Chess"
• The second direction of hazel grouse came from Turkey and the western Himalayas. The most popular variety in this direction is Imperial hazel grousegrowing to a meter height
• From Asian latitudes came persian hazel grouse
• In Afghanistan and Western China, Kamchatka hazel grouse, also known as Bicentennial and Sibling
• there is hazel grouse Severtsov, which grows only in the conditions of its homeland - in Central Asia
• Came to us from North America hazel grouse

  
  Homeland of hazel grouses

The soil

The soil should be fertile enough and if there is clay instead of black soil on the site, then peat and earth from a compost heap must be added to the dug hole, which will give more fertility to the soil and the hazel grouse bulbs will feel good in such a place.

If groundwater is very close to the surface on the site, then it is necessary to make a cushion of crushed stone up to 15 cm thick in order to prevent rotting of the bulbs.

Rubble pillow

Botanical portrait

Grouse is a perennial plant with rounded, slightly flattened bulbs, consisting of 2-4 fleshy accrete scales.
Young bulbs, which have not yet bloomed, or as they are also called, juvenile are slightly elongated in length.

The leaves of the hazel grouse are narrow, lanceolate, on the shoot are arranged alternately or in whorls. The height of the pagon in different species ranges from 10 cm to 1 m.

Flowers drooping, are single or grouped in umbellate or racemose inflorescences of 3-7.

Corollas are in the form of a goblet or bell, painted in yellow, orange, terracotta red, cherry brown, dark purple, almost black, in some species with a checkerboard or speckled pattern. Blossom in April-May.

Like most ephemeroids, they vegetate no longer than June, then the ground part turns yellow and dies off, and a dormant period begins for the bulbs.

When the roots die off at the bottom of the onion, it's time to dig them up.By this time, light brown impeller seeds in hexagonal capsules also ripen.

Fritillaria "Aurora", "Rubra" and "Maxima Luteya"

Often the following varieties of this type are very popular in floriculture:

• fritillaria "Aurora" - brick-red flowers with an orange tint;
• fritillaria "Rubra" - fritillaria with dark, almost burgundy buds. The plant is medium-sized, up to 50-60 cm high;
• tall "Rubra Maxima" - in comfortable conditions it can grow up to 2 meters in height;
• fritillaria "Maxima Lutea" - large yellow inflorescences of 6 buds. Fritillaria maxima lutea plant growing up to 150 cm;
• "Lutea" is less tall, up to 50-80 cm in height.

Another species of hazel grouse has decorative value - Mikhailovsky fritillaria. This plant is considered one of the most beautiful garden species. The petals of its corolla are brick-brown. A bright yellow ring forms at the end of the bud. The hazel grouse flower gives the impression of being slightly dipped in a sun-colored paint. Look at the photo how great this species looks in garden compositions.

Flower features

Grouse, including chess, belong to ephemeroids, that is, plants that rush to bloom faster, so that later they can sleep for a long time. In spring, a sprout appears from the bulb, thin long leaves open, and then unusual bells appear.

The annual development cycle of bulbous ephemeroids growing in the temperate zone is divided into three periods:

1. Rapid growth and flowering in spring from the moment of snow melting and thawing of the soil until the end of June. The plant during this period has three tasks: to produce in the process of photosynthesis as much organic matter as possible to replenish reserves in the bulb, to form an unusual flower in a cell, to grow and scatter seeds.
2. All summer and early autumn are devoted to increasing the biomass of the bulb as a guarantor of the well-being of the species. The bulb is an underground shoot with a short stem and scaly leaves... In summer and autumn, the hazel grouse bulb performs two functions - it stores water and forms new young bulbs, providing vegetative reproduction.
3. The winter period for hazel grouse is the time of maximum rest. Winter for plants experiencing it in the adult stage is a period when you need not so much to save yourself from low temperatures as to take care of the safety of water in the body. After all, water, which has a temperature of about zero and below, is practically inaccessible for plants, therefore the main task of wintering in a bulb state is the maximum water saving... If this task is completed, then the growing season will begin in the spring.

Each plant, if it exists on this planet, has its own advantages over competing plants. Does the hazel grouse have such advantages? Perhaps there is only one thing - the unusual color of the flower. Under the forest canopy, the most noticeable are flowers painted in light shades - blue, yellow, white.
In open spaces, saturated colors are attractive to insects - red, blue, dark yellow. The flower of the checkerboard hazel grouse can be closer to red shades, but it cannot be called bright.

However, it stands out perfectly against the background of green grass, attracting pollinators precisely by its variegation, brought to geometric perfection.

The chess theme is well expressed in the Pink Eveline variety. Only here the background under the cells is much lighter - it is white or light gray. In other varieties, there is no clear chess theme. For example, Orion, Poseidon and Saturnus, although they have checkered ancestors in their kind, but their petals are covered not so much with cells as with spots of indefinite shape.

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Fritillaria, hazel grouse, fritillaria (fritilaria). Bulbous plants, from 10 to 100 cm high. The flowers are bell-shaped, drooping, from 2 to 6 cm in diameter, white, green, red, brown or yellow.

Types and varieties of hazel grouse

The genus includes 179 species of bulbous plants growing in the temperate zones of Europe, Asia, North America.In the conditions of central Russia, two species are the most stable in culture and are widespread in ornamental gardening, about 40 more species are found in amateur collections.

According to the size and shape of the bulbs, the outlines of the stamens, nectaries, the shape and color of flowers and leaves, the methods of attachment of leaves to the stems and the origin, all species of hazel grouses are divided into 6 sections;

Section I Eufritillaria includes a large number of species (divided into 4 groups) originating from Western Europe, the Mediterranean and Western Asia;

Section II Petilium unites larger species native to Turkey, Turkmenistan, northeastern Iraq and Iran and the Western Himalayas;

Section III Theresia includes 1 species - Persian hazel grouse (Fritillaria persica), originating from Western Asia;

Section IV Rhinopetalum contains species from Afghanistan and Western China;

Section V Korolkowia represented by one species, Severtsov's hazel grouse (Fritillaria severzowii);

Section VI Liliophiza includes species from North America.

Grouse bulbs are not covered with dense protective scales, so they can dry out quickly. Their size largely depends on the species. They usually consist of two fused fleshy scales, between which the stem exit point is visible.

Section I Eufritillaria

The most popular to represent not only the first group, but also the entire botanical genus - the hazel grouse (chess fritillaria).

Grouse chess, fritillaria chess (Fritillaria meleagris)

Section I Eufritillaria, group A

In culture since 1572, the species name meleagris means "spotted color of plumage", like a hazel grouse or a grouse.

Plant up to 35 cm tall. Leaves are linear-lanceolate, narrow. Flowers are single, rarely - in two, bell-shaped drooping, brownish-purple with a clear checkerboard pattern, up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Blooms in late spring for 2-3 weeks.

Relatively unpretentious. Prefers semi-shady places, light fertile soils without stagnant moisture. It can grow in one place for many years without transplanting. Dug up plants for propagation only to plant the nest of bulbs. Under favorable conditions, it quickly spreads on its own and runs wild.

The species has many garden forms and variations.

Popular varieties of hazel grouse:

Grouse checkerboard 'Aphrodite' - white flowers 20-40 cm high bear green markings both on the inner and outer sides;

Grouse checkerboard 'Artemis' - large purple flowers with green markings, stem height - 30-40 cm, the variety has been known since 1947;

Grouse checkerboard 'Charon' - dark flowers with barely visible markings, cultivated since 1947, peduncle height - 20-25 cm;

Grouse checkerboard 'Jupiter' - a garden form with particularly large flowers, bred in 1947, dark red flowers with a clear checkerboard pattern, plant 20-25 cm high;

Grouse checkerboard 'Mars' - dark purple flowers are located on stems 20-30 cm high;

Grouse checkerboard ‘Orion’ - this garden form is similar to ‘Jupiter’, but differs from it in violet-purple color of flowers with a light speckled pattern;

Grouse checkerboard 'Pink Eveline' - pink flowers, eventually turn white or gray, peduncle height 40-50 cm;

Grouse checkerboard 'Poseidon' - white flowers with purple markings;

Grouse checkerboard 'Saturnus' - flowers are large, red-violet, covered with light spots, the height of the peduncles is 20-25 cm.

Grouse chess variety Alba (Alba) is a white-flowered form, known since 1982, forms stems up to 20 cm high, near the nectaries there is a green spot.

Grouse Mikhailovsky, Fritillaria michailowskyi

Section I Eufritillaria, Group C

Homeland - Northeastern Turkey. The species was described in 1904 by Mikhailovsky, but became really popular after it was discovered in Turkey in 1983.

This hazel grouse has low (about 20 cm) stems with red-purple flowers with yellow edges. The inner surface of the perianths is also canary yellow.

A stable species, a well-permeable soil is required for normal development.

Grouse Mikhailovsky, Fritillaria michailowskyi

The most famous - imperial hazel grouse (Fritilaria imperialis) and chess (F. meleagris) reproduce relatively easily in culture. Grouse Mikhailovsky (F.michailowskyi), pontic (F. pontica) and pale-flowered (F. pallidiflora) do not reproduce independently in the garden, but aged bulbs can be easily replaced with fresh ones.

Fritillaria acmopetala, fritillaria acmopetala

Section I Eufritillaria, group C

Homeland - meadows of Asia Minor and Western Asia, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria. The species was introduced to Europe in 1874.

Stems 20-30 cm tall. Leaves are linear-lanceolate. The flowers are bell-shaped, usually solitary, usually contrasting green-brownish or olive-green with brown markings. Blooms in May.

Grows well on any soil in the light and in partial shade. The species is stable in culture. Produces a large number of daughter bulbs.

Grouse Caucasian, Caucasian fritillaria (Fritillaria caucasica)

Section I Eufritillaria

Homeland - mountain meadows of the Caucasus and Asia Minor.

The bulbs are 1–1.5 cm in diameter. Stems 10-25 cm tall with 2-3 bluish leaves and single drooping narrow-bell-shaped dark red-brown flowers with a bluish bloom outside. Blooms in early May.

For planting, choose open areas with rich soils. Propagated by daughter bulbs and seeds. Blooms 4-5 years after sowing.

It is grown mainly in botanical gardens. The species is stable in culture.

Fritillaria yellow, fritillaria yellow (Fritillaria lutea)

Section I Eufritillaria

Homeland - mountain meadows of the Caucasus and Asia Minor.

Stems 7-10 cm tall, leaves are green, lanceolate. The flowers are large, 4–5 cm long, yellow with a checkerboard pattern. Specimens with white flowers are known. Blooms in mid-May.

The species grows both in the light and in partial shade, on rich, loose soils. Propagated by seeds. Blooms 3-5 years after sowing.

Fritillaria checkerboard, or hazel grouse, fritillaria checkerboard, or fritillaria small (Fritillaria meleagroides)

Section I Eufritillaria

Homeland - meadows, edges of floodplain forests, the south of European Russia, Ciscaucasia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan.

The bulbs are 1–1.5 cm in diameter. Stems up to 50 cm tall, with alternate narrow-linear leaves. Flowers on one stem 1-2, less often 3. Dark brown flowers with a bluish bloom, bell-shaped, 2-3 cm long. There is a form with white flowers. Blooms in mid-May.

The species prefers lighted areas with well-drained soils. Propagated mainly by seeds. Blooms for 3-5 years.

In culture it is quite rare. Less stable than chess hazel grouse.

Grouse mountain, mountain fritillaria (Fritillaria montana)

Section I Eufritillaria, group C
Homeland - the south of France, Italy and the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Northern Greece, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania. Despite the fact that it began to be cultivated back in 1832, it still remains little known.

The bulbs are 2 cm in diameter. From the rosette of grayish-green leaves, peduncles 15–40 (up to 60) cm in height rise, bearing 1-3 short bell-shaped flowers of green color. Outside, they are so densely covered with black-purple or brown spots that the green tone is visible only from the inside. The earliest flowering species of hazel grouse (early – mid May).

Plants thrive under shrub branches in any well-permeable soil. In the summer, it needs increased watering. The species is stable in culture. Gives self-seeding and a large number of children.

Fritillaria pallidiflora, fritillaria pallidiflora

Section I Eufritillaria, group A

Homeland - alpine, subalpine meadows, Eastern Siberia, Northwest China, Kazakhstan. Middle Asia.

The species was discovered back in 1887 by E. von Regel, director of the botanical garden of St. Petersburg.

Bulbs up to 4 cm in diameter. Stems 20-80 cm high are covered with gray-green bluish broad-lanceolate leaves and at the tops bear 5-9 large drooping pale yellow bell-shaped flowers. Blooms in late May.

In the first few years after planting, it blooms irregularly.The species loves to keep the soil moist throughout the summer. Grows well in light and partial shade, on any soil without stagnant water. Propagated vegetatively (by daughter bulbs) and seeds. Blooms 3-5 years after sowing.

One of the most stable hazel grouses in the culture.

Pyrenean hazel grouse, pyrenean fritillaria (Fritillaria pyrenaica)

Section I Eufritillaria, group C

Homeland - the mountain meadows of the Pyrenees and northwestern Spain.

Stems 15-30 cm tall. The flowers are elongated bell-shaped, about 2.5 cm long, dark purple on the outside, yellow (olive green) on the inside. The tips of the perianth lobes are bent outward. Blooming in May.

Open drained areas with any type of soil. The species is stable in culture. Occasionally grown in botanical gardens.

Russian hazel grouse, Russian fritillaria (Fritillaria ruthenica)

Section I Eufritillaria

Homeland - floodplain meadows, edges and glades of deciduous forests, steppes. Middle zone and south of European Russia, Ciscaucasia, south of Western Siberia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine.

Bulbs up to 2 cm in diameter. Stems up to 70 cm tall with linear, partially alternate, partially whorled (lower) leaves. The uppermost leaves have antennae. Dark flowers are bell-shaped, reddish-brown, 1.5-2.5 cm long, rarely single, usually 3-10 pieces, up to 30. Plants with white and double flowers are found in nature. Blooms in late May.

The species grows on any soil, in the light and in the shade. Propagated mainly by seeds, self-seeding. Blooms 4-6 years after sowing. The species is stable, but rare in culture.

Tynberg's hazel grouse, Thunberg fritillaria (Fritillaria thunbergii)

Section I Eufritillaria, group B

Homeland - China, Japan. At home, it is grown in large quantities for the purpose of making cough syrup. It got to Europe in 1830.

The height of the stems is 30-80 cm. On each of them up to 6 usually drooping, but sometimes erect white flowers with green veins on the outer and brown markings on the inner side of the perianth are formed. During the flowering period, the stems must be provided with supports.

Grouse fox tongue, hazel grouse, Assyrian hazel grouse, Foxberry fritillaria or Assyrian fritillaria (Fritillaria uva-vulpis)

Section I Eufritillaria, Group D

Homeland - mountain meadows of Asia Minor, Iran, Iraq, Eastern Turkey.

The height of the stems is 10-35 cm. The leaves are linear-lanceolate. Flowers are single, bell-shaped, not more than 3 cm long, usually greenish-brown tones (dark brown outside, and olive inside). A yellow stripe runs along the edge of the perianth. Blooms in May. Lighted areas with any soil, prefers moist soil. Rocky gardens with groups of different, contrasting flowers, hazel grouses. Stable. Unpretentious. Gives a large number of children.

Grouse fox tongue, hazel grouse

It is often grown in botanical gardens. In Europe, they are also grown for cutting.

Section II Petilium

Fritillaria imperial, fritillaria imperial (Fritillaria imperialis)

Section II Petilium

Homeland - Turkey. The most widespread species in culture, came to Europe as early as 1580. Karolus Kluzius (Kluziy) planted its first specimens in the HORTUS botanical garden in Leiden. Over the course of just one century, more than 30 variations have been bred. Now there are about 20 modern forms of this species.

A plant with large, up to 15 cm in diameter, bulbs that have an unpleasant odor, and with a hole in the center. The stem is powerful, up to 100 cm in height and above. Stem leaves broadly lanceolate, collected in whorls. The flowers are bell-shaped, drooping, up to 6 cm in diameter, orange with red-brown veins, at the base with a violet-brown spot, collected in 6-12 whorls at the top of the stem. In garden forms, they can take on a different color. It blooms in spring, 11-13 days. After flowering, the aerial part dies off until next spring.

Prefers warm areas in partial shade of deciduous trees. Needs loose nutritious soil, does not tolerate waterlogging. Only completely decomposed humus is used as an organic additive to the soil.Plants suffer from soil moisture in the summer, during the dormant period, therefore it is recommended to dig up the bulbs every year after the stems die off and plant them again in flower beds in late September - early October. Plant the bulbs obliquely so that moisture does not get into the central hole. In the spring, during the period of leaf regrowth, the plants are fed with full mineral fertilizer. Propagated by baby bulbs, which are formed with different intensities in different varieties.

Popular varieties of imperial hazel grouse:

Grouse imperial 'Aureomarginata' - a garden form, known since 1665, orange flowers with a pattern of red veins, located on stems up to 90 cm high. The leaves are bordered with yellow stripes. The variety is not winter-hardy;

Grouse imperial ‘Aurora’ is a short form, flower-bearing stems do not exceed 60 cm, flowers are orange-red, may suffer from night spring frosts;

Grouse imperial 'Lutea' - cultivated since 1665, stem height - 80-100 cm, golden yellow flowers with a network of purple veins;

The imperial hazel grouse ‘Maxima Lutea’ - a shape reminiscent of the ‘Lutea’ variation, only of a larger size, has been cultivated since 1867, the height of the peduncles is 120 cm;

Grouse imperial 'Premier' - peduncles 80-100 cm high, orange flowers with light purple veins;

Grouse imperial ‘Prolifera’ (‘Kroon op Kroon’ (“Crown on the crown”) - orange-red flowers form two tiers, one above the other;

Grouse imperial 'Rubra' - reddish-orange flowers;

Grouse imperial 'Rubra maxima' - flowers are very large, orange, stems 80-100 cm high, cultivated since 1665;

Grouse imperial 'Sulferino' - an old variation with orange flowers covered with a network of red-purple veins, 80-100 cm high;

Grouse imperial 'William Rex' - an old variation, named after William III, the flowers are dark red.

Edward's hazel grouse, Edward's fritillaria (Fritillaria eduardii)

Section II Petilium

The species is identical to the imperial hazel grouse (F. imperialis), and the name "imperial hazel grouse" is a priority.

Florists sometimes call "imperial hazel grouse" - cultivars, and Edward's hazel grouse - specimens from nature.

Fritillaria raddeana, Fritillaria askabadensis

Section II Petilium

Homeland - meadows of the middle and lower belt of the mountains of Turkmenistan and Iran.

A yellow-green-flowered garden form of hazel grouse of imperial Dutch origin is sometimes grown under the name Fritillaria raddeana.

The bulbs are 5–10 cm in diameter, in comparison with the Radde hazel grouse bulbs are longitudinally elongated. Stems up to 100 cm tall with densely spirally arranged lanceolate leaves, leafless in the upper third, crowned at the very top with sultans of leaves with six broad-bell-shaped flowers drooping in different directions, pale yellow, up to 6 cm long. It blooms in early May, just before the flowering of the imperial hazel grouse.

Unlike the imperial hazel grouse bulbs, the Radde hazel grouse bulbs do not require annual summer digging and drying. Prefers sunny areas and rich, drained soils. Propagated by seeds. Blooms in the 7-10th year after sowing. The species is relatively stable, but rare in culture.

Section VI Liliophiza

Grouse Kamchatka, Kamchatka fritillaria (Fritillaria camschatcensis)

Section VI Liliophiza, group C

Homeland - floodplain meadows, alder forests of the Far East, Japan and North America. The species appeared in Europe in 1757. In the United States, it is distributed everywhere from Alaska to Washington.

Bulbous perennial 25-40 cm high. Bulbs up to 3 cm in diameter. Flowers from 1 to 8 pieces on the stem, dark purple, almost black in color. Blooms from May to June. Does not bear fruit.

The species prefers light partial shade and fertile soil. After the flowering period, it continues to need abundant watering. Propagated by daughter bulbs.

Grouse two-flowered (Fritillaria biflora)

Section VI Liliophiza, group C

Homeland - North America.

Flowers are chocolate, miniature.The color can vary from dark chocolate to greenish with spots. An emerald stripe sometimes runs on the surface of the perianth.

The popular variety 'Martha Roderick' is a cultivated variation of F. biflora subsp. Grayana, which is a natural hybridization of Fritillaria biflora and Fritillaria purdyi. Stems up to 20 cm in height bear 3-5 flowers. Outside, the flowers are brown-purple with white spots at the top, inside - green with brown veins.

Grouse related, or related fritillaria (Fritillaria affinis)

Section VI Liliophiza, group C

Homeland - North America.

The height of the stems is 40-60 cm, however, there are variations with much more powerful peduncles. The flowers are bell-shaped, hanging, collected in 12 at the top of the stem. Their color ranges from yellow to purple.

The species needs well-permeable soil and light partial shade.

Varieties of hazel grouse related:

‘Limelight’ - stems 40-60 cm high bear green flowers covered with dark olive spots;

‘Wayne Roderick’ is a cultivar developed in China with flowers ranging from brown with emerald spots and green tops to almost black with brown or red markings.

Fritillaria glauca, fritillaria glauca

Section VI Liliophiza, group C

Homeland - North America.

The plant is 15 cm high, topped with long golden-yellow flowers, covered with brown specks on the inside. The color of the leaves varies from light green to gray-gray.

In Europe, this species is often cultivated in greenhouses.

Purchase of hazel grouses

It is necessary to buy grouse bulbs as early as possible (in late August - early September) and immediately plant them: they do not have dry coverts, therefore they quickly lose their viability. In late autumn sales, the bulbs are usually substandard and overdried.

Grouse care

In nature, hazel grouses are confined to a variety of habitats, and therefore growing conditions and care are selected depending on the type of plant.

Breeding features of hazel grouse

Propagated by daughter bulbs, bulbous scales and seeds.

Onion babies

At the base of the mother bulb of some species of hazel grouse, small baby bulbs are formed, which are called "caviar" or "rice". These species include acicular, golden, Caucasian hazel grouses. These bulbs are very small, so they do not have enough strength to get out from the depth to the surface. Therefore, when digging bulbs in the garden, the baby must be collected and grown separately in containers or seed boxes. The containers can be dug in the garden. Two or three additional feeding will not be superfluous: starting from the moment when the snow melts, and until the leaves of young hazel grouses remain green.

Scales like lilies

The bulbs of the hazel grouse of the Liliorhyza section, for example the hazel grouse and Maksimovich, are similar to the bulbs of lilies. If you disturb them during digging, then the scales are easily separated, they can be used for reproduction by simply planting them in the ground. But they do not take root as easily as lily scales.

Sowing hazel grouse

Grouse Russian, yellow pale-flowered and checkerboard and a number of others reproduce only by seeds. For germination, they need a long, up to two months, period of cold stratification, so they are sown in the fall. Seeds of hazel grouse, Russian, Mikhailovsky, allowing summer soil moisture, can be sown in summer, immediately after harvest.
To get your seeds, it is best to have several flowering plants for cross-pollination.

Transplanting and storing bulbs

It is useful to replant hazel grouses every year. Then they get sick less and bloom more abundantly. Dig up the bulbs when the leaves turn yellow and wither. Then they are cleaned of dried scales, dried and stored in a dry, warm place until the next planting on a flower bed. It is best to store the dug out bulbs in boxes, sprinkled with sand.

Dug out hazel grouse bulbs for storage should be sprinkled with sand

If you follow these simple rules, then every season you will admire the gorgeous flowering of these plants.