Sibirinė scylė – Scilla sibirica

Sibirinė scylė

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Sibirinė scylė
Latin plant name	Scilla sibirica L.
English plant name	Siberian Squill
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Borders Clump, beds (mixborder) Flowerbed, parterres Pods Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Water bodies and coastal Wild plant parterre Combination with woody plants
ASSORTMENT	main
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	wet soils average wet soils dry soils
Lighting	Heliophilous Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 8 to 10
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height
Habitus	flower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green
Blossom color	white blue, blue tints
Blooming time	early spring - March - April First Decade
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	non-decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	1
Group	intermediate type perennial (grown 5-6 years)
Bioecological group	Bulbous and corm
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, bulbs. Almost every large bulb produces 1-2 bulbs, which are sensitive for drought. Seeds are sown after picking up. Seedlings begin blooming in the second year. 200 seeds per 1 gram.1000 seedlings per 10 grams of seeds sown.