A well-groomed garden and facade in front of the house is the dream of many gardeners. To implement it, you need to start with landscaping. Hosts are considered the most popular used to decorate not only personal plots, but also park areas. These decorative herbaceous perennials are so popular and indispensable that without them it is impossible to imagine a single secluded corner of the garden.
The hosta was formerly called funky, the places of its main growth were China, Korea, the Far East. A variety of herbaceous perennials has more than 60 species of hosts, it is known in all corners of the globe. What is attractive? Leaves and their color are the main decoration of the host. In the garden, landscape tricks of designers are manifested in its harmonious neighborhood with many flowering plants and tall cereals.
Varieties of hosts are many. Even the classic perennial bushes with green leaves are not the same. The drawings on them have dark and light colors. Borders, stripes, white stains in various variations create unique combinations on the leaves, changing the appearance of the plant.
How to plant hosts beautifully
The most unpretentious of the plants that are planted on a personal plot or in the garden, is considered the host. It grows even in the most shaded areas. Many of its varieties feel great both in areas illuminated by the sun and in the corners of the garden with diffused but bright light.
Variety of Hosts
Florists recommend determining the best place to hosta by planting it in different parts of the garden. Next year it will become clear on which of the selected areas the plant feels better. This can be determined by the color of the foliage. Then you can transplant the grown bush to the selected place. Perennial unpretentious in care and perceives a change in habitat painlessly. If necessary, the host can be grown in a container for landscaping balconies and terraces.
Tip. It is better to grow a perennial plant by dividing the rhizome. Experienced florists believe that this method is more convenient than growing hosts from seeds.
The planting of this herb in carpet design looks beautiful. Its large leaves do not allow weeds to grow in the garden. Carpet in this case is considered not only decorative, but also useful.
Neighborhood with coniferous plants and juniper
What to plant near the hosts
What is the host in the flower bed combined with? These ornamental plants coexist perfectly with all the flowers, so the question of what to plant next to the host does not arise. Previously, this perennial plant was rarely seen on flower beds and flower beds. He was considered something special among familiar plants and flowers. Modern varieties adorn flower beds and paths. They look wonderful surrounded by roses, peonies, hydrangeas, irises. A good tandem hosts on a bed with geraniums. These plants are the decoration of any flower garden: from the ceremonial composition to the shady corner in a landscape style.
Hosts with Peonies
With the help of these attractive plants growing on flower beds, you can increase the attractiveness of the flowers located next to them. Hosta large leaves with ornaments soften, soothe, balance plants of various nature, enhance the beauty of their neighbors, namely:
- Flowerbeds with daylilies and hosta. In the infield, low-growing daylily species are grown. They are mainly designed flower beds that look like alpine slides. At the forefront of the composition, florists recommend planting hosts with beautiful foliage. Depending on what design is carried out for an alpine hill, they select a scheme for planting bushes, alternating them with daylilies, which suit any soil and diffuse lighting.
- Flowerbed with phlox, geyhera and hosts. A skillful combination of heichera and hosts with an attention-grabbing variation in the shades of one and the other flower transforms the area, whether it is a flowerbed, lawn or alpine hill, and attracts attention. Both flowers are unpretentious in care, resistant to disease, frost and dry weather. The corners of garden plots decorated with a geyhera and hosta are a real highlight of the design. On a semi-shaded part of the garden, perennial phloxes that bloom almost all summer until mid-autumn will look like a bright spot. Arid summers, like winter frosts, are not so sensitive for phloxes.
The combination of heichera and hosts
Host in landscape design
Designers use a variety of varieties of hosts in their compositions. They are attractive in that they tolerate low temperatures well, are frost-resistant, which means that they are a perennial decoration. These perennials are divided into varieties with the original glossy, wax and matte finish of the leaves. There are varieties with very large leaves, these ornamental plants are found with small leaves. The appearance of the sheet is also diverse. Its structure is smooth, embossed, wrinkled and with wavy leaves.
Interesting. There are miniature varieties of perennials, the height of which is slightly more than 10-15 cm. They appeared in the last decade and have taken root in home floriculture. In the landscape of the gardens, subspecies of the hosta varieties are used.
It all depends on the height of the herbaceous perennials. Ground cover - have a height of up to 20 cm, border - from 20 to 30 cm, medium-sized - 30-45 cm and high - from 45 to 80 cm. Using them, using optical illusion, you can revive the darkest corners of the garden, creating multi-tiered compositions.
Hosta in the flower garden
Due to the beauty of the leaves, grassy bushes are not only decoration of gardens. Leaves are used to create original bouquets. This large-leaved plant looks beautiful both lonely and in mono-groups, creating complex compositions from different varieties. Landscape designers use hosts:
- when creating flower beds;
- as a border plant, decorating the front edge of the composition;
- in freely growing groups;
- in rockeries;
- as a tapeworm or large spots on the lawn;
- in the design of regular mixborders and flower beds;
- in Japanese rock gardens and gardens;
- in creating small decorative ponds,
- by flowerbed by sector;
- in the form of carpet or a green "pillow".
Hosts on a summer cottage
Flower bed or bed with hosts
The grassy bush will not get lost in a bright flower garden. The plant creates interesting compositions in the multi-colored flower beds, the originality of which receives its portion of admiration. Flower beds fenced with curbs look more attractive, especially when the host is involved in the design of flower borders. With the help of designers, you can choose the right varieties with different color sheets and their location in the curb. This will guarantee the beauty and uniqueness of the flower garden.
Multilayer curb
Hosta curb
In creating the landscape near the house on the plot involved border plants. They share decorative and functional areas. An excellent plant, often used to create a green border, is considered a host. Designers offer to compose compositions of at least three of its types with different levels of height, planting along the tracks. The main thing is the compatibility of the selected varieties of this perennial plant in shape and color, thereby obtaining a unique pattern. The border varieties include miniature Blue Cadet plants with blue leaves or Light Up.
Creating a beautiful and durable garden design, you should listen to the advice of landscape designers regarding the choice of planting location, lighting, plant neighborhood.
