Dailioji melsvė – Hosta venusta

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant name	Dailioji melsvė
Latin plant name	Hosta venusta Maek.
English plant name	Plantain Lily
TYPE OF PARTERRE	Borders Clump, beds (mixborder) Flowerbed, parterres Pods Groups Rockery, retaining walls Cemetery Water bodies and coastal Wild plant parterre Combination with woody plants Solitaire
ASSORTMENT	supplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil	wet soils average wet soils
Lighting	Heliophilous Half heliophobic
Spacing, cm	From 20 to 30
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height	very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height
Habitus	flower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color	green
Blossom color	violet
Blooming time	1-st half of the summer - June 2-nd decade- July 2-nd decade 2-nd half of the summer - July Third Decade - August
Blooming period	1 month
General ornamentality	very decorative
Ornamentality duration, months	6
Group	logn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological group	Perennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: scrub division, seeds. The flower is propagated by scrub division with 1-2 bud growths or shoots with few roots. Plants are cut in Spring when a bud growth appears. Propagation method by seeds is used only for mature seed species. Seeds are sown after picking up in Autumn or after seeds stratification in Spring. Seedlings often are differ from parent plants. Seedlings are grown indoors for one year. Seedlings grow up in 4 years. 1000-1500 seeds per 1 gram.