The choice of ornamental plants for the garden is huge. If you do not know what to decorate your gardening area, look at the host - a perennial plant with large leaves. How to properly care for this culture and what subtleties of landscape design should take into account?
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Features of cultivation and types of hosts
In this culture there is one more name - Lily-plantain. Ground cover plant is a broad leaves with thick. Its advantage lies in the fact that it fits even in the intricate design of the garden. During warmer months, the hosts form a carpet of emerald color.
Host the following features is different:
- Unpretentious in the care and undemanding to the conditions of detention.
- Shade, no problems develop in a well-lighted place, and in the shaded area.
- Within a short period of time it forms a posh green cover the area.
Tip! The best place to host in the garden - the penumbra. This spot color and texture of the sheet will be more pronounced. The conditions of the plants vary - each of the varieties of their lighting requirements.
Hosts - plants, which are in great demand among gardeners. This demand is due to a large selection of varieties. If you are interested in this culture, first decide the kind, consider the composition of the garden and start to implement. To help you make a choice, read the photographic material, which is laid out in our publication.
Among gardeners greatest demand is for the following varieties:
- Wavy. The leaves are green, they are seen white insert and winding lanes. The plant belongs to the class of perennials. In a short span of time it has been an active proliferation. Flowering occurs in July-August. In order to improve the green plants will have to prune in early autumn.
- Plantaginaceae. In this culture leaves are large in size. Flowers in the form of white bells. It ranked among the plants that are unpretentious to lighting conditions.
- Belookaymlennaya. Mini-bush with green leaves that have white edging. It is feeling well near water. The soil should if possible be clay.
- Hybrid varieties. For all varieties are characterized by resistance to adverse weather conditions. Hardier than classical varieties. Special attention should be 2-3 colored hosts.
Important! Unlike breeding species from the classic is the slow growth.
Decorative use of culture
If you decide to decorate your site hosts, you will be able to make a reality of any idea. In order not to miscalculate with the choice, take into account the recommendations of landscape designers. The plant can be a component of a composition or be placed separately. You can experiment with the shape, topography and texture of the leaves.
The landing of hosts separately practiced less frequently. Typically, designers combine forms in accordance with growth, play with the shape of the leaves and patterns. But it is worth considering that care for them will not be easy, because in each class their demands for the conditions, and they bloom at different times
Monoklumby look beautiful, framed by rocks, boulders. The composition is obtained chic, if you place it near a pond. Host may be included in landscape composition with the proviso that:
- Culture in the neighborhood, lost their foliage in the lower part.
- Plants withered in the flower bed or lose their decorative effect.
- Flower can act as a bright background for the crops that are pale color.
Tall grade (60-90 cm) are used as the main decoration in the design of a flower bed. They are created by the composition of the lower species of hosts and other plants. Dwarf varieties (height 20 cm) are considered excellent decorative elements for stone flower beds, the front tiers beds. Average height varieties can be combined with flowers of white or purple.
Practical advice florist to place the hosts in the garden
Before proceeding to the cultivation of ornamental plants, it is necessary to consider the following recommendations:
- Do not select the hosts for land, which is not protected from the midday sun.
- Plants with leaves of blue and green colors show their smartness, if it is to grow in a shady location. Yellow and pale green leaves require indirect lighting.
- Hosts will land at different places in the garden. Thus you will know which one is more suitable.
- Best neighbors for medium and low grades are considered peonies, ferns, roses, Volzhanka, Astilbe, Heuchera, dead-nettle. Taking into account the characteristics of different cultures will be able to create an elegant composition of plants.
- Low hosts can be the backdrop for flowering lilies, phlox, miscanthus, reed.
- Tall varieties should be placed in the central part of the flower bed. These plants do not need a background. Ideally combined with onion, cereals and conifers.
Once you have read all the information on hosts, select the most suitable varieties and safely proceed to create stunning compositions, which will be the pride of your garden.
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