To bring brightness and beauty to your garden, we will find out what a heicher is, consider varieties and species with a photo and name, and decide which one is best for your garden.
Let's say right away - the plant is unpretentious, not demanding on the soil, both in the sun and in small partial shade, it grows well, so there will be no special fuss with cultivation.
Choose a site suitable, without stagnation of water, with good drainage, water moderately, and just top dressing for the season once. That's all, in fact, care. Now let's look directly at the heichera varieties.
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Caramel Heicher
Large leaves of beautiful yellow color will decorate a flower bed with bright roses or eustoma, will be perfectly combined with astilbe and primrose. He loves the heat and especially humid climate, up to 30 cm can grow a bush, occasionally blooms with light pink flowers.
Cappuccino
An eternally green bush with bronze-colored leaves and tubular tubular flowers that appear with the onset of summer days - this is what the variety looks like, beautiful and unusual. It goes well with bruner and incense.
Geicher red
The evergreen perennial, also called the coral bell, has large bright leaves and red flowers. Beautiful spots will dilute your garden and, of course, will decorate it.
Purple castle
Evergreen heichera is similar in appearance to leaves with ivy, if you plant it with many bushes, it will attract all the attention. It also looks very picturesque in bouquets. Planting is better in digging with daylilies and astilbe.
Heicher hybrid
With large decorative leaves, from white to bright red shades - a very beautiful plant. But - it is necessary to cover from the winds, because it can break from gusts of wind. If you cross with an American heicher, you will get delightfully beautiful foliage and delicate delicate flowering.
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Disembarkation and care
Geicher can easily be propagated by dividing bushes and also grown by seeds. Consider each of the ways.
Dividing bushes it’s very easy to settle the beauty around the site. Dig out the bush, divide into sections, cut the stem down to the young tissue, also clean the dried shoots to the living, shorten the roots, if they have grown over a long time, remove all the decaying sections. Sprinkle the golden slices, also toss the ashes into the pits, and drop them off, watering and covering from the sun. And as new roots grow, you can already transfer them to other parts of the plant.
Seeds a heicher is easily landed, but there are some nuances. Shelf life: if you just buy in paper bags, you should know that the shelf life is short - only six months. If they are in foil - then up to one and a half years.
Sow in a loose soil, preheated and dumped in a suitable container, with the addition of sand. Mix the seeds with sand, because they are tiny, and cover with glass. As the sprouts appear - raise the glass, but you do not need to remove it. Keep light and moderate moisture constantly, but there is no draft. As 3 leaves appear - peek out, by the numbers of May 15-18 you can transfer to the garden. It can winter in the garden, only it is necessary to shelter. That's the whole process of growing heichera - simply and not laborious.
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