Decorating the shady corners of the garden with beautiful plants is not difficult, the most important thing is to choose the right place for the specific conditions from the abundance of elegant green or beautifully flowering pets. For example, a lamellar stilboides will become such a worthy decoration of a shaded corner with a pond, because this plant is very suitable for such a place in the garden.
Where does astilboides grow in the wild?
Almost all garden plants and flowers were taken by people for gardening, horticulture, and floriculture from the wild. Many of them went through a long selection process, and some retained their pristine charm by decorating different corners of man-made gardens. The last plants include a stilboides lamellar. In the wild, this green beauty with large leaves grows along the moist banks of water bodies in Korea and Northeast China, hiding in the shade of trees and shrubs.
In garden floriculture, this plant has been used for a long time, allowing you to dress up plain shady corners of plots with large carved foliage. If you look at the photo of the lamellar astilboides, you can see that it blooms, throwing out a panicle inflorescence with unprepossessing cream-colored flowers. They do not serve as decoration of the plant itself, since its beauty is in large carved leaves on tall pubescent petioles, reaching a height of 80 cm.
Where to plant a plant in your garden?
Since stilboides lamellar in nature loves partial shade and moisture, a similar place should be allotted to it on a well-groomed site. This plant has very large, beautiful, carved leaves, actually looking like outlandish emerald plates, and it needs enough space to deploy them. The shady corner of the garden, the shore of the reservoir, protected by shrubs or trees from the bright sun is the best place for planting a decorative, as landscape designers also say, architectural plant - lamellar astilboides.
How to plant an architectural plant?
The place for stilboides is chosen, it is necessary to prepare it so that the plant likes it and it takes root well, it is a healthy and elegant decoration of the site. Planting for this green pet is suitable for both spring and autumn. Astilboides reproduces most successfully by division. The rhizome must be divided, leaving growth buds on each divide, planted in a prepared place without deepening. To the place of planting of a new plant, leaf humus should be introduced in advance, although the main soil of the astilboides lamellar prefers loamy and sandy. Newly planted flowers should be watered with root-stimulating preparations, then fed with complex fertilizers.
How to care for astilboides?
Astilboides lamellar is a perennial plant that does not require regular transplantation, it needs only simple care. It consists mainly in regular watering, so that the soil is always slightly moistened, as well as in the application of fertilizers. If the plant blooms, the peduncles can be removed, they will not take away nutrients and moisture from the leaves. But faded flowers will give seeds, and from them new astilboides can be grown. Growing such plants from seeds is a painstaking affair, since cold should be statified. To do this, you can sprinkle mature seeds in a flower box with good soil and dig it in the greenhouse for the winter. You can carry out this procedure at home by placing small flower seeds in the refrigerator for a period of 30 days. Hatching seeds are first grown at home, and then small plants are moved to a permanent "place of residence."
In autumn, the leaves of the plant wither, fall off, serving as a kind of mulch for the wintering period. By the way, the astilboides are lamellar, the winter hardiness zone of which is Moscow Region , winters well without much shelter. Only severe frosts require additional plant protection in the form of a snowdrift or spruce branches.
Another important plus in the care of lamellar astilboides is the lack of need for weeding. Large leaves of the plant prevent any weeds from emerging and growing.
An amazing plant with large carved leaves - astilboides lamellar will help to decorate the shady corner of the garden. Planting and caring for such an architectural plant will appeal to any grower. The plant needs supervision only in the first season, and then it takes care of itself - large leaves that do not allow sunlight to penetrate protect the plant from weeds and drying out the soil, after falling in the fall they serve as protection of the wintering rhizome from frost, and then as fertilizer for the flower . By the way, lamellar astilboides grows very slowly, which is convenient in its cultivation, which does not require frequent updating of the plant and removal of overgrown children.