The decorative garden plant of the host is very diverse, because it is represented by different varieties. You can pick a flower that fits into any composition of landscape design. All plants of this family are unpretentious, drought-resistant and cold-resistant, perfectly suitable for partial shade. Hosta looks best as a background plant in mixborders and flowerbeds.
And now let's look at the sorts and types of hosts that exist.
Lists of varieties of hosts
There are about 4000 hybrids of this plant. They are classified according to various signs, in particular, in the height of the bush, the coloring and texture of the leaves.
Below is a list of the most popular hosts in our latitudes, which can often be found in flower beds and flower beds. These plants serve as the basis for selection work:
- Dream Weaver - a host with dark green leaves that have a white border. This plant is about 60 cm high;
- Tom Schmid - high host up to 90 cm high with large glossy leaves of dark green hue;
- Elegans - Foliage hosts of this variety have obvious streaks. The plant is of the Zybold type;
- Thomas Hogg - the so-called swollen host whose leaves have pointed tips;
- Undulata Mediovariegata - wavy edges and a white middle with a green border - a characteristic feature of foliage in hosts of this species;
- Royal Standart - refers to the plantain hosts with bright green glossy leaves;
- dwarf mini hosts are considered plants up to 10 cm high (these are Blue Ice, White Water, Tatoo, Hanky Panky, Stiletto and many others).
It should be noted that hosts in nature grow in shady wet places - under trees with a dense crown, along creeks and rivers, in ravines. Therefore, the commercially available brands, supposedly intended for sunny locations, are rather the advertising move of sellers. Such plants in the sun will grow faster, but under the influence of bright rays they lose their decorativeness.