Heycherella care
Geyherella in landscape design photo
Geyherella is not a demanding plant.
- The main advantage is good frost resistance, geyherella feels great under snow at -40 degrees.
- Maintenance is straightforward, adding to the benefits of growing in low energy gardens.
- The site for Heykherella can be in partial shade or in the sun, full shade is also suitable.
- Almost any soil, preferably clay or sandy with a lot of humus.
- It tolerates drought, but it is better not to give up regular watering, otherwise flowering will be rare.
- An area in the open sun should be watered immediately after the soil dries.
- Top dressing with fertilizers and humus is necessary for the flowering period to be longer than usual.
The number of plants when planting should not exceed 12 units per 1 m². Mandatory autumn mulching of the bush - to protect the roots.
Types and varieties of heykherella with photos and names
Heycherella has many varieties, which differ from each other in color and size of leaves. There are varieties whose foliage is colored red, green, purple and other shades. Elongated inflorescences consist of small bell-shaped flowers. The most popular varieties are:
Its leaves are painted in a deep green hue, and the inflorescences are coral pink.
The pale green foliage has a silvery tint.
Buttered rum
This compact plant has a caramel-red hue. In diameter, it reaches no more than 30 centimeters, while its height varies from 15 to 20 centimeters. The best place to grow it is considered to be the lacy shade of large trees. In the spring, the foliage is colored red, and in the fall it changes to burgundy. This plant is perfect for rockeries and borders, and it also looks great with geraniums, hosts and other varieties of Heycherella.
It is recommended to grow the bush next to other green-leaved plants or ferns.
Solar Eclipse
The name of the variety is translated as "solar eclipse". Carved foliage of a bright burgundy shade along the edge is decorated with pale light green edging.
Rosalie
The plant reaches a height of about 0.45 m. In spring, its leaf plates are yellowish-green, and in the last summer weeks, their color changes to dark green, while the veins turn brown.
Hopscotch
Large leaves with a carved edge can be painted in a variety of shades, from red-orange to yellowish-green. At the same time, it was noticed that the warmer it is outside, the less purple tint in the foliage color. Inflorescences from 25 to 30 centimeters in height, which include white flowers, rise on thin peduncles. They decorate the bush from mid-May to the last weeks of July.
Golden zebra
A medium-sized bush is decorated with orange-purple foliage with a pale green edging. During the flowering period, such a plant looks even more impressive, because at this time snow-white small flowers open on it.
Stoplight
Such a bush looks best against the background of open ground with a brownish color. Green plates adorn the veins of a fiery red hue.
Brass Lantern
The middle of the large leaf plates is brownish-red, and the edge is peach. Pale brown veins cut the leaves into several lobes.
Tapestri
This variety reaches the highest degree of decorativeness during the flowering period. Against the background of bright green foliage, pale pink paniculate inflorescences look most impressive.
Also often cultivated and such varieties as: "Kimono", "Quick Silver", "Sweet tee", RedStoneFalls, "Alabama Sunrise" and many others. There are a huge number of varieties and every year there are more and more of them.
Geyherella Geyhera Tiarella what is the difference
Types of Erica with photos and names
Despite the large number of erica species, gardeners focus on a few basic ones that can be easily grown at home. They all vary in size and color.
Erica ruddy or grassy Erica herbacea or Erica carnea
Erica ruddy or grassy Erica herbacea or Erica carnea photo
The flowering period lasts from November to April. In the natural environment, it is most often found in Central and Southern Europe. The height of the shrub reaches 65 cm, and in width it grows by 45 cm. It branches well, the shoots are densely covered with needle-like leaf plates 4-8 mm long. The leaves are collected in whorls of 4 pieces. Inflorescences grow in the axils of the leaves. Corollas are bell-shaped, drooping, pink, red, less often white.
Erica graceful Erica gracilis
Erica graceful Erica gracilis photo
Half-meter high bush. It has an uneven crown: the central shoots are longer than the lateral ones. Linear leaves only 4 mm long, light green. Oval corollas are collected in inflorescences of 4 pcs. at the tops of the shoots. The shade of the flowers is bright red. In varietal plants, flowers can be snow-white, pink. This species tolerates only light night frosts, therefore it is grown as an annual or in a pot. Vegetative reproduction (rooting of cuttings). It is preferable to grow in a shady secluded place. Suitable partners on the site will be cyclamens, stonecrops, chrysanthemums.
Erica x darleyensis
Erica darlenskaya Erica x darleyensis photo
A hybrid that begins flowering in April or early May. The shrub is highly branching, in the natural environment it reaches a height of 0.9 m, during cultivation it is limited to a half-meter mark. It is notable for its rapid growth rates, which made it especially popular among gardeners. The flowers are snow-white, pink, bright crimson (depending on the variety). For cultivation, you will need an area illuminated by the bright sun and protected from strong winds. Not all varieties are frost-resistant, grown as a summer or pot crop.
Erica tetralix
Erica four-dimensional or cruciferous Erica tetralix photo
A species that can successfully winter in conditions of central Russia in the presence of a shelter (winter hardiness zone 4-5). When planting next to conifers, it can do without additional shelter. The bush is compact, the stems are erect, stretching 0.5-0.7 m in length. When planted on well-drained moist soil, the acid reaction grows quickly. The leaves are green with a bluish tint, there is a tomentose pubescence. Blooms in summer to late autumn. The flowers are white, pale pink or red.
Erica arborea
Erica arborea photo
A pretty thermophilic tree no more than 3 m high. In the conditions of its natural environment, it lives in the Mediterranean. The gardener liked the tree so much that in our regions it is grown in containers. During the warm season, it can be used as a mobile decoration of a garden, balcony, loggia, gazebo, and with the onset of cold weather, it must be transferred to the winter garden. Flowers in the form of bells, looking down, snow-white with anthers of a red-brown hue, very fragrant, collected in a racemose inflorescence.
Erica spiculate Erica spiculifolia
Erica spiculata Erica spiculifolia photo
It is a low (about 25 cm) spreading semi-shrub. Oblong leaves of a dark green color are strewn with stems. The flowering period is June-July. The most delicate bell-shaped corollas have a pale pink hue.Withstands a drop in temperature to -23 ° C, successfully overwinters under a snow cover, but it is better to build a shelter. The plant previously belonged to a genus close to Eric: Bruckenthalia.
The most demanded variety is Balkan Rose, which is much superior in decorativeness to both the species and other varietal plants.
Erica gray or gray Erica cinerea
Erica gray or gray Erica cinerea photo
Sprawling bushes 20-50 cm high. The flowering period lasts all summer, retreating with the autumn cold. Winter hardiness zone 4-5 (up to -34 ° C). Still, it is better to cover the plantings for the winter.
Varieties and varieties
Breeders are constantly cultivating new varieties of plants that differ in height, color of leaves and flowers, as well as care requirements.
- Bridget Bloom is characterized by coral pink flowers and bright green leaves. The highest point of the plant is its inflorescences, they reach a height of 45 cm.
- Rosalie, with a growth of 45 cm, has a darker, coral-pink color of inflorescences and yellow-green leaves in spring. During the season, the foliage changes color to dark green with reddish brown veins.
- Solar Power has bright yellow leaves with a brown heart.
- Quick silver at a height of 60 cm is distinguished by an ash-silver tint in the colors of foliage and petals. Peduncles are rich brown.
- Kimono. The bright green leaves have burgundy stripes at the veins. The inflorescences are also characterized by a burgundy color.
- RedStoneFalls has even brighter foliage. It combines abstract brown-orange patterns with dark green edging.
- Alabama Sunrise has a very decorative leaf color. The main tone in them is yellow with hints of light green. There is a bright brown pattern along the veins.
- Bras Lantern. Strongly dissected large leaves combine an orange-peach outer edge with a red-brown heart and veins.
- The golden zebra has variegated foliage. Bright yellow edges are adjacent to the pomegranate core and veins. Inflorescences are snow-white, medium-sized.
- Throughout the season, the foliage resembles the autumn coloration of maple leaves. They are bordered by shades of red, pink, orange and burgundy.
- Tapestri has deeply dissected leaves with bluish-green edges and narrow burgundy veins. The bush is very compact, up to 25 cm in height and up to 40 cm in width.
- Honey Rose. This short (up to 30 cm) bush shimmers with all shades of pink, which resembles a large lollipop. The leaves are pink, darker with red veins, the stems are coral, and the inflorescences are creamy pink.
- Stoplight or traffic light is one of the latest developments. Oval wide leaves are light green, almost yellow, with red thin veins. The height of a bush with white inflorescences reaches 60-65 cm.
On the video, some of the varieties of Heuchera and Heycherella
How to plant in open ground?
Euonymus prefers sunny places for growth, but does not like direct sunlight. The optimal planting site will be a part of the garden with light partial shade. You can find a place under a tree with a not too dense crown. For planting, it is better to purchase seedlings that have reached 3 years old, since their root system is already well formed and strong enough.
You can plant Forchun's euonymus in the fall, but there is a high probability that a bush with a weak root system may not have time to take root before the onset of cold weather. Experienced gardeners in this case recommend planting the plant in a pot, moving it indoors for the winter, and planting it in open soil in the spring. The primer is suitable with a neutral PH, good air permeability. You can prepare a suitable composition yourself. It will require:
- leaf land - 5 parts;
- sod soil - 1 part;
- humus - 3 parts;
- sand - 1 part.
The hole is dug twice as much as the horse system of the plant, its bottom is well tamped and sprinkled with a layer of drainage.The bush is placed in a recess, watered and covered with earth.
Features of heykherella
The Heycherell hybrid is a perennial. It was bred by crossing Heuchera and Tiarella. This herbaceous crop is intended for outdoor cultivation. Its superficial root system consists of thick roots. Its shoots are very flexible, and the long-peaked foliage is highly decorative. The leaf petioles, as well as the lower part of the leaves, are covered with dense pubescence.
The leaf plates have a dissected shape, which makes them very similar to maple foliage. In some species, in the summer, small flowers of a light color are formed. The average height of such a plant is about 50 cm. The highest height of Heycherella is about 0.7 m, but this is together with paniculate inflorescences that rise above the foliage.
This culture is widely used by both gardeners and designers when creating flower ensembles or borders.
Such a flower is unpretentious:
- it grows well both in shade and in sunny areas;
- its foliage remains very bright and beautiful until the very frost;
- under a layer of snow, the plant is not harmed by frosts down to minus 40 degrees;
- tolerates drought well, but only for a short time;
- does not need special care;
- responds well to moderate feeding (begins to grow faster).
Unpretentious perennials. Geykhera and geykherella What is the difference?
Reproduction methods
Heycherella can be propagated in two ways: by cuttings and by dividing the rhizome. It cannot be grown from seeds. Like most hybrids, this plant produces flowers but does not form fruit with seeds.
Dividing the bush
Such a plant is divided regularly: once every 3 or 4 years. If you neglect this procedure, then soon the overgrown bush will lose its attractiveness. So, its shoots will begin to actively stretch out, and their tops will dry out.
It is recommended to carry out a transplant with dividing the bush from mid to late July or in the first days of August. At this time, the bushes fade, and their roots begin to grow actively. The bushes transplanted at the end of the summer period will have time to take root well before the onset of frost.
After the plant is removed from the ground, it is necessary:
- rinse its roots thoroughly;
- cut off all dried out processes;
- divide the bush into parts, of which there may be several.
Keep in mind that there should be a healthy kidney on each section. When planting bushes in open ground, a distance of 0.2–0.3 m is observed between them. If the cuttings are too small, then they are first planted in small pots. And after they get stronger and grow up, they can be planted in open ground.
Cuttings
For harvesting cuttings, young shoots that appear in the spring are used. Cutting of cuttings can be carried out already in the first days of April. The prepared segments must be placed in a container filled with water, which is mixed with Kornevin in advance. As a rule, the roots of cuttings grow back after 25-30 days. As soon as this happens, the segments are planted in pots filled with fertile substrate.
A young bush is transplanted into the garden only when it begins to grow actively, and young leaf plates are formed. The bush adapts very quickly to new conditions. If the seedling was transplanted into open ground in late autumn, then it will need a good shelter, for the creation of which you can use flying foliage and needles, straw or covering material.
