Hosta refers to decorative shade-loving perennials. Nature endowed it with unprepossessing flowers, preferring bright and diverse leaves in shape. Landscapers practice the use of plant bushes in garden compositions and flower garden design.
Caring for a host does not require much effort. The plant is unpretentious. It lives on any
type of soil. With proper care, it grows quickly enough. They completely dig out a plant only when a transplant to the host is, in principle, necessary. As a rule, this is a very overgrown bush with intense coloring and an excessive amount of densely planted leaves.
Transplanted to the host in spring or early fall. In the summer, this is allowed only when transplanting to the host is an absolutely necessary step . For example, to transfer it from the sun to the shadow. In this case, good watering is necessary so that the plant can adapt to a new place. The transplanted bush blooms only after a season.
Popular varieties among amateur gardeners varieties:
- Grade "albo marginata." Bright green leaves of lavender shape with uneven white bordering.
- Variety "the night before Christmas." The leaves are dark green with a dense texture and a narrow white stripe starting from the handle.
- Grade "Alex Summers". Large plant in the shape of a vase. Over time, forms the perfect ball. The leaves are blue-green, dark. Each is bordered by a golden stripe, the width of which depends on the age of the plant. It got its name on behalf of the first president of the American Host Club.
- Variety "moon of August". Large, thin leaves are yellow-green in color. The flower is tall, white, large enough.
- Variety "blinding brilliance." Hybrid hosts are Alex Summers. It also has a wide bordering of the sheet, not just white, but golden.
The host is rightly considered the queen of shady areas. Using a variety of leaf colors and alternating hosta varieties, you can create a unique composition in the garden. When it is designed, many questions always arise. For example, what measures are taken when a host needs transplantation in an adult state? In this case, the plant is transferred to a new place with a lump of basal earth.
Host propagates by simple division of the rhizome with a sharp knife:
- All leaves are removed from the mother plant. They partially dig it out.
- Define and cut off part of the root with a daughter kidney.
- The cut-off point of the daughter bush is smeared with brilliant green or a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
- The maternal rhizome is back filled, and the daughter is placed in a pot with garden soil and put away in the refrigerator until the beginning of March.
- After this period, the pot is removed from the refrigerator, and the host is grown at home as a houseplant.
- When the host gets stronger, it is planted in open ground.
And yet there are exceptions. Hybrids can only be transplanted in the fall. In these varieties of hosts, the formation of new roots begins after all the leaves have blossomed. The ideal period when a hybrid host can be transplanted to a host without risk is considered mid-August - early September. Intensive growth of the roots of hybrid varieties in the autumn period will allow the plant to adapt long before the cold season.