Mini hosts - varieties: description, title and photo
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Miniature hosts - the most beautiful varieties: description and photo
It is clear that in the decorative decoration of the garden the role of the mini-host is small: they are too small. They were born first of all in order to become a subject of gathering, to please the eye and to amuse the soul of the collector. Each year, in a line of similar varieties with more than modest dimensions, more and more copies appear, which deprives fans and fans of small rest and sleep hosts.
What's new in this line of breeding?
Varieties of miniature host - description and name
Little Bush Gold Drop ("Golden drop", 1977) in the hostarium really looks like a precious bar of gold. The size of the heart-shaped shape of the leaves is no more than 5 × 3 cm. This is a lustless hosta, that is, turning yellow by mid-summer: the color of the chartreuse changes to golden during the season. Tolerant to the sun. It grows quite quickly, which makes it possible to use this variety to create borders.
Grade Bitsy Gold (1985) - miniature, forms a dense hummock 20 - 25 cm in diameter. Narrow, dazzling-gold lanceolate shiny leaves, their length is six times the width (12: 2), flowers are lavender.
У Stiletto (1987) long arrowed, slightly wavy green leaves with a white border along the edge. Their form resembles a dagger, which gave the name to this cultivar. Height - 25 cm, diameter of the bush - 30 cm.
Grade Ladybug (1996, "ladybug") forms a bump of regular spherical shape of bright yellow color. There are not enough black points for complete resemblance to our favorite from childhood insects.
Hosta Teaspoon (1998) - a charming mini-variety with rounded leaves of regular shape on fairly long petioles, which indeed resemble tea spoons. A beautiful form of bush!
У Masquerade (the year of introduction and origin is unknown), a height of only 15 cm, lanceolate, slightly wavy white-cream leaves with a thin green border and lavender-violet flowers.
Well recognizable variety Medusa (1993) refers to small hosts (S), its size is 20 x 15 cm. The leaves are strongly wavy and twisted, lanceolate, ivory with an emerald border.
Grade Pandora's Box (“Pandora's box”) has been known since 1996. Its height is not more than 10 cm. This super-dwarf has small (3 × 5 cm) bluish-green leaves with a cream center and lilac-purple flowers.
The size of the mini-hosts Little Jay (2004) does not exceed 10-15 cm, it has narrow gray-green leaves with a wide cream center. And there is one peculiarity in this variety: the older the bush becomes, the wider the green leaf center becomes - and the rim becomes narrower. The adult plant is completely unlike itself "in its youth".
MOUSE CUPS
In the world of the host there is a whole "mouse family", the ancestor of which was a unique mini-variety with an absolutely brilliant name - Blue Mouse Ears ("The ears of a blue mouse").
He had a reason for such a name: round, dense, elastic, like silicone, leaves really resemble the ears of Mickey Mouse, the hero of Disney cartoons. Characteristically, this variety belongs to the mini-host group, and lavender flowers and tall peduncles have quite the same size as the "adult" hosts - disproportionately large. The tremendous commercial success of these "ears" pushed originators to create new mini-varieties with similar characteristics.
The list of hosts from the mouse series is so great that they have become the subject of separate collectibles. it Snow Mouse ("Snow mouse") with dense leaves with a white center and a blue-green border; Green Mouse Ears ("Green mouse ears") - a dark green variety with thick elastic leaves and large purple flowers; Lucky Mouse ("Lucky mouse"), Holy Mouse Ears ("The ears of a holy mouse"); The 2013 novelty of the year with a bright and memorable name Church Mouse (The "church mouse"), Country Mouse ("Village mouse"), Dancing Mouse, Frosted Mouse Ears with greenish-blue circular leaves with a cream border and pink flowers; Giantland Sunny Mouse Ears ("The ears of a solar mouse") became the first yellow-leaved host of a mouse family; Desert Mouse, Mystic Mouse ("The mysterious mouse"), Mighty Mouse ("Mighty mouse") - all this offspring Blue Mouse Ears.
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Since 2014 year is known Giantland Mouse Cheese ("Mouse cheese"). In 2016 year appeared Smiling Mouse ("Smiling mouse") - sport from Frosted Mouse Ears. New 2017 years of steel Sun Mouse ("Solar mouse"), another variety with leaves of golden yellow color; School Mouse ("School mouse"); Flamenco Mouse. But all this "mouse brothers", in my opinion, is inferior in beauty and originality to its progenitor.
Where mice, must certainly appear and cats. Some of them are directly from the mouse series. This is a miniature variety Cat and Mouse, as well as dwarfish Cats Eyes ("Cat's eyes"), with an expressive pattern on a resembling almond-shaped cat's eyes.
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Hosta Dragon Tails ("Tails of a dragon") - a dwarf variety of unknown origin with narrow elongated lemon-yellow wavy leaves.
Lutescent, in the adult state it forms an elegant golden hummock. One of the best yellow hosts of its size range is due to the strongly wavy, frizzed leaves. Rapidly proliferates and multiplies easily. Good for creating spectacular curbs in flower gardens.
Grade Itsy Bitsy Spider - one of the smallest host, which easily fits in a pot with a diameter of not more than 7 cm. It looks like a miniature agave. Very tender and moody; only 5 cm high.
In a tiny variety Cameo height 10 cm, tiny green-blue leaves with a cream-cream feather-edged fringe and purple flowers!
Grade Candy dish (2016), or, in our opinion, "candy", is distinguished by petioles with a brown crab, dark green dense, shiny leaves with a corrugated edge. Height no more than 35 cm. Extremely good!
Hosta Sparkler - bright in the literal sense of the word a representative of the "striped" varieties. Green dense, shiny lanceolate leaves in the center are painted with white and salad feathery dabs.
Grade Cherry Tart ("Cherry cake") with a height of 25 cm, with lanceolate leaves that look upward; petioles and peduncles of red-brown color, which is absolutely in the spirit of the latest tendencies in selection of the host.
Small host Chorus Girl ("Choristka", 2016), the height of 35 cm, with roundish cupped wax leaves of syzo-yellow-green color, waffle texture, a wonderful memorable variety.
TIP: look at the mini-hosts better near, so it's good to plant these tiny plants in containers
У Tortifrons (2002) height 15 - 20 cm, narrow shiny wavy, leathery dark green twisted leaves. This unusual little host was accidentally discovered in a Japanese garden.
Hosta Mini Skirt ("Mini-skirt", 2014) - a representative of the "mouse" series, a remarkable miniature host with heart-shaped very dense (visible breed!), Thick twisted leaves. The color is blue-green with a wide yellow-cream border.
Bright showy Fireworks ("Fireworks", 2001) - height 10-15 cm, dense lanceolate cream-white shiny upright leaves with a dark green border and uneven hatching.
Original variety - Hands Up. ("Hands up") of size S (height - 35 cm). Occurs from the super popular Praying Hands, inheriting from the ancestor the vertical location of swept, stiff, twisted dark green leaves trimmed with a yellow border. More like ordinary grass than on the host.
Hosta Little Treasure (2008) will really become a "little treasure" (15 x 20 cm) of your garden. This is a charming dwarf with narrow, sizo-green lanceolate leaves with a wavy edge. A narrow cream strip runs along the center of the sheet, like an axis of symmetry, dividing it into two identical parts.
Grade Lightning Flash ("Flash of light") has lanceolate elongated waxy blue-blue leaves with cream and yellow shading and a red base in the petioles. Height - 30 see
In the variety Lakeside Little Tuff beautiful cream leaves with a bright green border almost without petioles, as well as an extremely fashionable dwarf Hacksaw ("Hacksaw") with a strongly assembled edge of the sheet, reminiscent of the teeth of the hacksaw, for which it received its original name.
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Variety 2015, with an extravagant name Electrocution ("Electroshock") forms a ruffled hummock of twisted, narrow green leaves trimmed with a thin yellow border.
The novelty, which appeared in our catalogs 2017 year - Valleys Ruffle Shuffle ("Mixed ruches") has a sizo-green dense leaves with a white lining and ryushevidnoy frill on the edge and purple petioles.
Baby Leather and Lace ("Leather and lace"), declared by suppliers as a novelty 2017 year, has a blue leathery center of leaves trimmed along the edge of a light yellow frill. Another baby with a fairly fair name "magnificent" - Wonderful - appeared in 2017 year. This mini-hostel forms a very dense bush from elongated lanceolate leaves, painted in a bright yellow color, turning into a Chartrez shade by the middle of summer.
COMPANIONS FOR MINI-HOST
Excellent neighbors for the tiny hosts will be other shade-loving, not too bright plants that will shade the modest charm of babes. These are shadow saxifrages, lungworts, liverworts, soft cuffs, Moravian and rusty spruce sediments, ferns - dumbfoot adiantum, scapolodrovan leaflet; various geraniums, astilbes (preferably with light, openwork white or ivory flowers), geyhery, bell of Carpathian, violet fragrant.
They can be safely placed among compatriots - a medium-sized host planting them on the front edge of a monochrome, so that the blossoming leaves of larger specimens do not eclipse the delicate fragility of the crumbs. The proximity of larger specimens will further emphasize their small size. We must have the whole company, achieving color harmony. To do this, it is better to first "play" with hosts temporarily planted in pots. So, rearranging them from place to place, you can achieve the best option.
AFTER THE PURCHASE
Let's be honest, small hosts in care are not as simple as their larger relatives. About them you can not say "planted and forgotten." First of all, because these hosts are developing slowly (and some grades are very slow), and to show everything they can do will only be available for 3 year (and this is at best).
Also do not forget that when you buy delenok mini-host to separate them into small parts is not necessary, plant as is. Otherwise, you can also damage the plant (after division, small hosts do not get along very well and for a long time come to their senses), and they will not look attractive for kids soon.
If you have bought a very small piece (which is not uncommon, since mini-hosts are slowly growing and it's almost impossible to get a big file), do not rush to put it in a permanent place, hold it in a container for a while. Let her first root system develop, get stronger, but only after that, transplant already to a permanent place in the garden.
MINI HOSTES - CARE
Small hosts require much more attention to themselves, they are their relatives of larger sizes. They all have a small root system, which is very sensitive to moisture deficiency (but its excess adversely affects the plant - it is not known yet what is worse). These hosts for winter are better to cover the fallen leaves, protecting the tender roots from frost. And in the spring it is obligatory to mulch, but with a small layer of compost or peat (no more than 2 cm thick) - this will allow maintaining the optimum regime of soil moisture and fighting annual weeds. It is still worthwhile to additionally tread the ground with crushed bark, sawdust or a shell of nuts. This will be an effective shield for slugs that are able to destroy the whole mini-host collection literally in one night! They just love to eat delicate leaves of pretty defenseless little ones.
They should be planted in a heap (so that they are not lost in flower beds), enclosing a dug in plastic tape or making an improvised "fence" of sticks around the sticks. And best of all - put small hosts in a plastic pot (tear off the pots with frosts) a pot without a bottom, and cut off at least half of it, leaving a ring that must be buried in such a way that above the ground there were centimeters 7-10.
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This barrier will be an insurmountable obstacle for slugs. There can be several such improvised “flowerbeds”, plant 3-5 hostas each (depending on their size), arranging them by the color and shape of the leaves and achieving color harmony. And all of them should be located together, together, in partial shade conditions suitable for them. This measure is mandatory, since in the spring there is a great chance to just inadvertently trample babies: they don’t need much ...
And in any case should not be cut off in their fall foliage. Firstly, because they themselves, such clever people, they themselves hide from the winter cold. And secondly - the dried and mummified leaves lie flat on the ground, pointing to the location of the hosts. In the spring they can be easily removed with one hand, but only after the "spouts" are pierced.
© Author: Natalia Gnatovskaya - a famous plant collector
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Advise whether to plant small hosts in the garden?
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Now it’s hard to imagine a well-kept garden without a lot of hosts. This is such an ornamental plant that it can turn the seediest garden plot into a beautiful and stylish one. But even about 15 years ago, few flower growers planted these plants, few even knew what varieties of it were found. And only a few have heard of dwarf hosts.
The smallest of these plants reach 10-12, the taller ones - 20-23 cm and are miniature. Now you can find many dwarf hosts of different colors, patterns and leaf shapes.
For example, green ones come with flat round leaves, shiny lanceolate, waffle texture.
Yellow - with round leaves, lanceolate, wavy lanceolate and shiny smooth lanceolate.
Gray and blue - with round and oval leaves, waffle texture, concave cup-shaped plates and narrow lanceolates.
There are dwarf hosts with light-edged edges, with round or oval leaves, white and cream border.
Amazingly beautiful dwarfs with a bright center of the leaf, with variegated and marble leaves.
Miniature and dwarf hosts are best planted in convex beds of a loose mixture of crushed bark, very old rotted manure (or leaf humus) and peat - all components must be taken in equal proportions.
Dwarf and miniature hosts are sissy plants. They can hardly bear the postage, and some will even die. If these hosts are purchased in pots, keep in mind that they cannot be divided. It is best to plant plants with a large clod of soil. Otherwise, it will be very difficult for them to take root in a new place. In general, it is recommended not to immediately move the plant to the flower bed, but to leave it in a container until it develops a healthy and well-developed root system. And only after that you can transplant the host to the planned location.
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For many gardeners, the problem is to split the overgrown host. I do this in the spring, when the leaves begin to grow on the plant. I put a shovel on top of them, click on it and in this way separate half of the bush. Then I dig out the part I do not need. I think this method is convenient. The leaves at this moment are small, you can see where you put the shovel, and the plant is not damaged. However, the strong root system of the host remains in good condition and you do not need to pull it out of the soil. Moreover, sometimes it is very difficult to do this, since a plant with a lump of earth is simply too heavy.