In landscape design, deciduous and decorative plants are popular that bring harmony and completeness to garden compositions. Among them, perennials such as hosts, or fungi, in which magical deciduous colors are combined with sophistication and elegance, occupy a special place. Varieties of this plant are called queen of shadows.
Blue and green, bluish and golden leaves on lush bushes with stripes and contrasting edges along the edges - gardeners will immediately say that this is the host.
A transplant in the fall makes it possible to perfectly beat such qualities of this plant as unpretentiousness, and most importantly - their ability to maintain their exotic yellowish-golden colors right up to the first frosts.
That is why the host is a representative of the lily family, which has sufficiently large and dense leaves, is very popular.
Agricultural experts believe that the transplantation of hosts in the fall or spring should be done only if necessary, since the plant tolerates this process quite hard. After the procedure, it comes to its senses for a long time, losing for a while its external splendor.
However, experienced gardeners who grow this decorative culture on their site know how it can grow, interfering with the normal existence of other flowers in the flower beds. That is why the hosts are transplanted in the fall. Before proceeding with a change in the habitat of the bush, you need to carefully consider a new site for its growth, since it is not recommended to subject the plant to such a test several times.
Many believe that spring is the best time for a hosta transplant, since it is during this season that young shoots appear from the earth. You can do this throughout the summer.
Some growers are sure that transplanting hosts in the fall is the right decision. True, there are certain time limits for this: it is desirable that this be done no later than the end of September. This is explained by the fact that for rooting and adaptation of the bush before the onset of the first cold weather it takes some time - at least one month.
At the same time, the most common varieties of this ornamental plant - "zibold" and "tokudama" with their hybrids - have one distinctive property. Their roots do not grow at all in spring.
Hosta transplantation in the fall begins with a complete digging of the bush. After this, the roots are shaken off the ground. Their ends for rejuvenating plants are slightly trimmed. Rhizomes are cut with a knife, and then broken by hands. Experienced gardeners recommend that the fault locations be treated with a fungicide solution or ash.
The plant prefers light fertile soils with medium acidity. A few hours before the hosts are transplanted in the fall, the area where it should be planted is watered abundantly. If necessary, the pit is covered with peat or fallen leaves.
If several bushes are transplanted at once, it must be borne in mind that the size of an adult plant is quite impressive. Therefore, you need to plant at a distance of at least one meter from each other.
The root neck, which should be at ground level, must be mulched with humus.