Landscaped hosts are incredibly popular because of their lush foliage and delicate flowers. Their decorativeness competes with unpretentiousness: the host rarely gets sick with something and never withers.
Let's learn to plant and grow this plant. And also use hosts in
garden design
. This will give you the opportunity to subsequently show imagination by creating compositions.
Function (host) in landscape design
Photos of this magnificent lush plant will convince you that your garden can not do without it. He was attracted by lovers of decorative floriculture after the Second World War. Since then, regularly find all new types of hosts. In landscape design, many of them are happy to use gardeners. They are not afraid of either excessive humidity or drought. But still a little better hosts grow in the northern regions.
Decorative leaves of the most various
shades of green (from golden green to dark green) are plain and variegated. Their color is highly dependent on the degree of illumination. In the shade, the spots become more expressive and contrasting. This must be taken into account when using hosts in landscape design: a shaded hillock in your garden or a place under the hedge, devoid of normal lighting, can shine with new colors after you plant this plant there. Host sizes vary. Low species are strewn with small leaves, and tall ones form bushes a little over a meter long. Such a variety of colors and shapes plays into the hands of the landscape designer. After all, you can drop various types of hosts in one place and create a successful bright composition.
These plants tolerate transplant perfectly. Therefore, you can experiment freely by creating various combinations. Propagating hosts is also very simple. This is done with the help of seeds (they are planted immediately after harvest and after three years get a full-fledged plant) or vegetatively by dividing the rhizome in the spring. In autumn, it is worth taking care of the shelter of the host stems that are exposed after the leaves fall; they need to be huddled. When creating a flowerbed, think over the desired garden composition in advance. Hosts in landscape design can be used for single flower beds, as well as for borders, arrays and curtains. When creating a flower bed, place tall varieties in the central part, and compact and low (well, if it will be more motley plants) in the foreground. Mixborder allows you to mix herbaceous perennials with different types of hosts. Greens host will emphasize their flowering. Use a medium-sized host to frame the paths. The So sweet variety is well suited, in which the leaves are trimmed with a white rim, and Golden Tiara with heart-shaped leaves and a yellow edge.
Solid carpet or solitaire on the lawn
Small hosts grow quickly and feel good when planted quite thickly. This creates the prerequisites for creating a continuous carpet. Ginko Craig grade is well suited for this purpose. Alternate the hosts with daffodils to create a color accent on the lawn in early spring. After flowering, the host leaves immediately appear, not allowing your garden to be empty. The tapeworm is best made up of large and long plants, such as Siebold's host.