Hosta gold standard landing and care

Growing features

Hosta fortune is characterized by rather rapid growth and low maintenance requirements. The soil for planting a plant needs slightly acidic and with good moisture permeability. A mixture of equal parts of peat, leaf humus, river sand and crushed sphagnum is optimal. The site should be chosen shaded or with partial shade. A little water is poured into the dug holes, mineral fertilizers are added, then the seedling is placed in the hole, carefully spreading the roots, and covered with earth.

From above, the soil is tamped and watered, you can also spread a layer of mulch around the plant. Hosta care consists in:

• regular watering (morning or evening);
• systematic feeding 2-4 times per season;
• loosening the soil and removing weeds;
• cutting off peduncles after flowering;
• pruning for the winter.

It is not necessary to cover adult plants for the winter period, they normally tolerate frosts, but young bushes can be covered with agrofibre. Bred to host:

• seeds;
• cuttings;
• dividing the bush.

The seed method is used mainly by breeders to develop new varieties. For him, seeds are sown for seedlings, they create greenhouse conditions for them, and after the appearance of leaves they dive. It is worth planting seedlings in the soil when they have at least 4 buds.

For cuttings, small rosettes with leaves are carefully separated from the bush without digging it out. They are planted in the soil, watered regularly, and make complex dressings. When the plant gets stronger, it is planted in the chosen place.

When multiplying by division, the bush is carefully dug out, divided into several parts with a sharp knife, each should have several buds. Planted in the same way as when grafting

Hosta fortune looks spectacular in any landing and, with proper care, will serve as a decoration of the site for many years.

An overview of the host plant fortune France in the video below.

Diseases and pests

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Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard) - In spring, the leaves are light green with a dark green border around the edge. Then the center of the leaf turns golden, and the hosta takes on a brighter color. The brightness depends on the amount of sun. In full light, the golden color turns to almost white. Flowers are light lavender.

Description Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard). The bush is up to 60-70 cm high. The width of the bush is up to 90-120 cm. The flowering period is July-August. Winter hardiness zone: 3 (-40 ° C)

Hosta, or funkiya, is a perennial herb of the Liliaceae family. The hosts are home to China and Japan. It is an ornamental deciduous perennial.Hosta leaves are about 20 cm long, up to 10 cm wide, located on petioles and form a large basal rosette.

They can have various shapes and colors, be monochromatic or with edging, with or without a wax coating, with a straight or wavy edge. The flowering stems are glabrous, from 20 to 100 cm high. The flowers are bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, blue, lilac or white, collected in racemose inflorescences.

Hosta blooms in July-August.

Place for landing Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard). Hosts can grow in both shade and sun, but most of them prefer slightly shaded areas. Variegated species are more light-loving. Plants need protection from drafts and strong winds. The soil for the host is suitable for fertile, moist enough, but without stagnant water.

Landing Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard). Before landing, the hosts dig up a plot of 1 sq.m. add a bucket of humus and a complete mineral fertilizer.

Small holes are dug at a distance of 30-50 cm from each other, corresponding to the size of the root system. Drainage is laid at the bottom, garden soil is poured, rhizomes are placed, spreading the roots, and covered with garden soil on top.

The soil is compacted, well watered, planting is mulched.

Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard) care. The hosts do not need special care. Plants must be watered in a timely manner, weed out, fed with organic matter or mineral fertilizers.

An excellent technique is the surface mulching of the soil with humus, it allows you to retain moisture and creates favorable soil conditions for the plant. In autumn, the hosts are not pruned, only the peduncles are removed.

They also do not need shelter for the winter, the culture tolerates frosts down to -40 ° C.

Reproduction of Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard). Propagated by host separation of the bush and cuttings. Adult shrubs are divided in early spring (before early May) or autumn (in September). To do this, the plant is abundantly watered, dug up and divided into several parts, so that each of them has 1-2 leaf sockets.

The resulting cuttings are immediately planted in a permanent place. Hosta cuttings can be carried out throughout the summer. To do this, young shoots with a heel are separated from the plant, the leaves are cut by a third, planted in a shady place, covered with a plastic bottle. In the first days, the leaves will lie on the ground - the turgor is lost, but after a couple of weeks the cuttings will take root.

Using Hosta Gold Standard (ML) (Hosta Gold Standard) in garden design. Hosta is great for landing along the shore of a reservoir, for rocky gardens, mixborders, planting along paths. It looks impressively planted in groups against the background of an emerald lawn. Ornamental hosta leaves are widely used to create bouquets.

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Landing features

Usually funkii love shade, but for a fuller manifestation of decorative qualities, the Gold Standard needs sunlight.

In the sun, burns are possible, so a light openwork partial shade will be the best place for this hosta.

The soil should be loose, neutral, moderately moist. If there is an accumulation of moisture on the site or groundwater is located too close, you need to make the embankment higher and put good drainage. The distance to the nearest neighbors is at least 50 cm.

Technology:

• They dig a hole 50-60 cm deep and lay drainage (broken brick, crushed stone or small pebbles).
• Garden soil is mixed with compost and peat, complex mineral fertilizers are added.
• The hole is filled with soil mixture by a third, filled with a bucket of water and allowed to absorb moisture.
• The plant is transferred from the container along with a lump, watered, covered with a substrate and tamped.
• From above, the soil around the funkii is mulched with peat chips, needles or pieces of bark.

Diseases and pests

One of the features of the Gold Standard variety is its exceptional resistance to infections. The plant is not characterized by fungal and bacterial lesions. An exception is gray mold, which can develop due to excess moisture. To combat pathology, it is recommended to use fungicides, as well as to remove the affected areas in order to exclude infection of neighboring plants.

Most often, the host is attacked by slugs, they feed on its leaves and as a result, it loses its decorative appeal.

The most common host pests are slugs and snails. However, the Gold Standard variety is resistant to them. As a preventive measure, the soil around the bush can be sprinkled with tobacco ash, which repels pests.

Analogs and sports hosts of the Gold Standard variety [edit]

Host varieties are similar to the variety Gold Standardedit

• Alice in Wonderland
• American Fashion
• Aomori gold star
• Fan dance
• Janet
• Marion bachman
• Okaydokey
• Paradigm
• Paul's Glory
• Rossing's Pride

Hosta sports Gold Standardedit

• Abba dabba wow
• Adrian's Glory
• Bob sanders
• Brenda's Beauty
• Caesar
• Captain kirk
• Chante's Dark Emerald
• Collector's Banner
• Darwin's Standard
• Fire opal
• Flip flop
• Foreign Exchange
• G String
• It
• Judi's Joy
• Moonlight
• New moon
• Paradise Standard
• Richland gold
• Royal golden jubilee
• Sam-tina gold
• Sarah jane
• Silver and Gold
• Something Different
• Standard deviation
• String bikini
• Striptease
• Sunfish stripe
• Work of Art

Awards

• Awarded to them. Alex J. Summers Distinguished Merit Hosta Award in 1993.
• According to the survey results, the variety hosts Gold Standard got into the rating of varieties of hosts according to the American Society of Host Lovers. (See Ranking host varieties by score).

• According to The Hostapedia by Mark Zilis, (2009): “Gold Standard can be considered the most significant cultivar ever produced ... its outstanding growth rate, seasonal color changes and the ability to form a symmetrical bush make this cultivar an excellent choice for almost any situation, it also has great longevity and good sun resistance ... However , no host collection can be considered complete without this sort. Unfortunately, many hosta varieties Gold Standardcommercially available are currently infected with Hosta Virus X ... If you come across infected plant material, destroy it. "
• From the Field Guide to Hostas by Mark Zilis, (2014) “Around 2000, it became apparent that material infected with the host X virus (HVX) was circulated in some nurseries. For several years, diseased plants are hosta varieties Gold Standard used extensively in the greening industry and sold in large chain stores to retail customers. The infection became so widespread that it almost destroyed the culture. Gold Standard... But nowadays most nurseries are selling net stock ... "

Description

This incredible plant is native to Japan. The bush is compact, but at the same time powerful in size. Fortune belongs to perennials and has wide leaf plates that have a heart-shaped or oval shape. They grow up to 12 cm in length and up to 9 cm in width, forming strong, compact rosettes. The color of the leaves is green with a light blue bloom, along the edges there is a golden or white edging.

The bush is 50-60 cm high. On long, half-meter peduncles, violet, elongated, rather large buds (about 6 cm in diameter) are formed, the flowering of which falls at the end of summer. The shape of the flowers is funnel-shaped, they gather in racemose, multi-flowered inflorescences. The root system is unbranched, well developed. The plant is shade-loving, but some of its hybrids feel quite normal in well-lit areas.

Plant characteristics

Botanical Description of Host Albopict:

• Herbaceous ornamental plant, from 40 to 70 cm in height, grows in width to 60-80 cm in diameter.
• Glossy leaves are slightly wavy, initially painted in a yellow-green hue with a darker edging around the edges. By the end of summer, the color becomes more uniform and changes to a dull green.
• Flowers in the form of bells, collected in pale purple inflorescences, are located on tall pedicels, from 60 to 70 cm high. Flowering begins in July and lasts until the end of summer.

This is an unpretentious and shade-tolerant plant that can grow both in sunny areas and in the shade.

The flower of the host fortunei albopicta has become popular for its lush clumps of green foliage, which can become a real pearl of any landscape composition. The plant belongs to perennial crops and has the following characteristics:

1. Unpretentious frost-resistant plant.
2. The plant is undemanding to light. The host can be grown anywhere in the garden, but in semi-shady areas the plant reaches its maximum decorative effect. Different amounts of light affect the color intensity of the foliage in different ways. For example, in shaded areas, the leaves take on a rich yellow tint, in sunnier areas - a lighter tone.
3. After flowering, in place of the inflorescences, seed pods are formed, filled with many flat-shaped seeds of black shades.

The flower grows rapidly and reaches its maximum decorative effect after a few years, after a huge head of lush foliage is formed, and the intensity of the color shades of the leaves will be maximum.

Hosta Albopicta

Reproduction

The most affordable breeding method is cuttings. It is best held in April or September (however, it is quite possible at other times during the summer).

Host royal standard

A rosette shoot "with a heel" is cut from the bush and the cut is sprinkled with a rooting stimulator. The stalk is deepened into damp ground in a semi-shaded place and covered with a cut plastic bottle. As necessary, the soil is moistened, and the cover is raised for ventilation.

A few years after planting, the hosta can be propagated by dividing the bush. In order not to slow down its growth, it is advisable to do it for 5-6 years.

The bush is dug up and carefully divided into 2-3 parts, leaving an equal number of buds and roots on each. Delenki are planted in the usual way in an openwork shade, watering as needed.

Care

After competent planting of hybrid hosts, proper care follows, on which the growth and development of culture directly depends. Care for "Gold Standard" includes the following activities.

• Irrigation. Water the culture abundantly and often. The best time for this procedure is morning. Gardeners should make sure that no stagnant water occurs.
• Fertilizer. Top dressing for this representative of the flora is required only in case of infertility of the soil. Components for replenishment should be applied 3 times per season. In this case, the florist can use both organic matter and a purchased mineral composition.
• Loosening of the trunk circle.
• Pruning. It is advised to carry out this procedure in the autumn period of the year. Gardeners should trim the stems and leave the leaves behind.
• Transplanting. Adult hosts need replanting every year in the fall.

The Gold Standard host is a popular ornamental deciduous plant. According to gardeners' reviews, there are no problems growing this plant. The main condition for the successful growth of culture is its competent planting, as well as compliance with the main care measures.

How to grow a host, see the video.