Hosta: the Beauty of Summer

In Xu Youren's Ru Meng Ling in the Yuan Dynasty, Huang Kui in the corner of the wall thanked. When it comes to jade hairpin flowers. I happen to know autumn, and the wind and dew is a clear night. Smart and unrestrained. Smart and unrestrained. Lying high under the green window. "

There is a breeze under the window and the fragrance of the hairpin is coming! So beautiful and unrestrained!

Hosta, also known as white calyx, white crane fairy. It is a perennial herbaceous flower of Liliaceae. Hosta is mainly foliage plants, ovate heart-shaped leaves green and bright, originally dark and damp forest with Hosta, it immediately became clear.

Now there are more kinds of horticulture, the leaves are more and more colorful, there are narrow leaves, mosaic leaves, rolled leaves, bluish gray leaves, and even a giant hairpin, each leaf is the size of the palm of the hand.

Morphological characteristics

Hosta florescence from June to August, the hottest summer. Flowers are also extremely beautiful, scape 40-80 cm high, erect or slightly curved, several to a dozen flowers at the top, cylindrical funnel-shaped, purple or white, fragrance overflowing. The white-flowered Hosta bud is as delicate as jade, shaped like an ancient hairpin, which is the reason why it is called "Hosta".

The flower language of Hosta: free from vulgarity, pure and clean.

Growth habit

Hosta likes the shady and humid environment and avoids strong sunlight exposure, which requires sandy loam with deep soil layer, good drainage and fertile soil. Extremely hardy, places in the north need a little protection in winter.

There is always a particularly damp corner in the courtyard. Under the big tree or by the corner of the wall, most light-loving plants do not grow well. Even if they can blossom or not, the branches will always grow in vain and stagger. So I planted a bunch of hairpins, and the green leaves began to sprout in early spring and turned green gracefully until the winter wind whistled and began to rest.

Reproduction method

1. Ramet propagation: before sprouting in spring or after the leaves turn yellow in autumn, dig out the rhizome and cut it. It is best to have 2-3 underground stems without clumps and keep as many roots as possible. It will blossom in the second year.

2. Sowing and propagation: the seeds are collected and dried after maturity in autumn, and sown from March to April of the following year. no, no, no. Sowing seedlings grow slowly in the first year, need careful maintenance, grow rapidly in the second year, and blossom in the third year.

Cultivation points for attention:

1, not resistant to drought, pay attention to watering from the growth, long-term drought or too dry environment is easy to yellowing leaves.

2. avoid stagnant water. If overwatering and poor drainage, the root system is easy to rot due to lack of oxygen.

3. Hosta has little demand for fertilizer, and there should be an appropriate amount of water and fertilizer.

4. Avoid direct sunlight. Can be cultivated indoors, with bright scattered light.

Ornamental value

Hosta leaf Jiaoying, bud like hairpin, white as jade, pleasant fragrance, is one of the important flowers in Chinese classical garden. Modern gardens are mostly cultivated in grasslands under forests, rock gardens or the back of buildings. It is precisely that "the fragrance of jade hairpin is good, and several branches open in the corner of the wall". It can also be dotted in three or two clusters in the garden. Because the flowers bloom at night, fragrant, it is an indispensable flower in the night garden, and potted plants can be arranged indoors and under the corridor.

Medicinal efficacy

Jade hairpin flower whole plant can be used in medicine, flower medicine has the function of promoting dampness, regulating menstruation and stopping belt, root medicine has the function of clearing heat and detumescence, detoxification and pain, leaves can detoxify and detumescence. Pharyngitis: 8-10 dried flowers of hairpins, brewed with boiling water and frequently drunk as tea. The effect is good.

The ancients loved hairpins very much, especially the courtyards in the south of the Yangtze River. Most of them had tall walls, and the courtyards were often narrow and dark. A plantain was often planted in the corner, with tall leaves sticking out of the wall, stones under it, and several clusters of hairpins, elegant and beautiful. In the summer night, the hairpin is in full bloom and fragrance is striking.