Host: planting and care

Some beginning gardeners often rack their brains over what can be planted on their own plot, and yet the plant is beautiful and unpretentious. After all, almost all flowers require a lot of sunlight, a few fertilizing during the season and constant loosening with watering. But still there are other plants, for which you do not need to constantly look. These include a host, landing and caring for it will not give you any special trouble. There are a lot of varieties. You will surely like her colorful leaves.

In this article we will look at the plant of the host, as well as the issues of reproduction and care for this amazing flower. It has a second name - function. Hosta refers to perennial herbaceous plants of the asparagus family. And her name is due to the doctor and botanist from Austria N. Host. Funky is widely bred by amateurs, and is also in great demand among landscape designers. This is not surprising, because, in addition to its unpretentiousness, it very nicely surrounds the garden paths and flower beds.

Host - planting and care

Funkia is grown for its decorative leaves, collected in large rosettes. They have different shapes, sizes and colors. Flowers the plant with discreet flowers, releasing several arrows at once. Early in the spring juicy fleshy leaves of the host flower are pecked out. Planting and caring for this beauty will not take you much time and energy, but how wonderful it will look in the flowerbed! Funkia is undemanding to the soil and, most importantly, it feels great in the shade. It is best to multiply it by dividing the outlet - in this case the next year you will already have a good strong bush, which grows quite rapidly. Seedlings from the seeds grow very slowly and require careful care of young seedlings. Hosta - the plant is very grateful, during the entire season it will please you with its sprawling rosettes. The only thing that is necessary for her is to provide at least a light penumbra during the hot midday hours. And if you feed it early in the spring, applying fertilizers, then the function will very quickly get used to a new place.

Caring for a young plant is timely weeding, so that weeds are not killed, and watering if the soil is too dry. In the future, it itself will be able to grow beautifully in your garden without much attention. In one place, hosts can grow very long: up to 15-20 years, while forming many interconnected outlets. They need to be divided, if you want to have small neat little bushes. Otherwise, you can get an additional weed under the name of the host. Planting and nursing it are so simple that for beginners in agrarian business the plant will do the best.

Funkia is very fond of eating slugs, so, perhaps, this is the only difficulty that can arise when breeding these wonderful bush. To combat them use a weak solution of vinegar or soda. Pests especially torment the plant when the outdoors is high humidity and rainy season.

Such a plant is simply obliged to be present in every garden.