Hauttyuyniya or Tsvetik-semitsvetik: Flower for garden

Hauttyuyniya cordata (huttiniya) - Dekorativnolistvennye heliophilous perennial with thin creeping rhizome belongs to the family zaururusovyh. In the wild, often found in the Far East, China, Vietnam.

Popularly known as the "little flowers-semitsvetik". plant height does not exceed 50 cm. The leaves are heart-shaped with variable coloring depending on growing conditions and time of year. Winter hardiness of plants is low.

Flowers have hauttyuynii white or pink color to a diameter of 3 cm, which is located in the center of fruit-bearing spike 3-4 cm long. Blooms in early July and bloom for a long time.

Rhizome thin braid is able to quickly capture a large area, raspolzayas in hand. Large variegated leaves have the most variety of colors, from rich green to dark brown in color, with multi-colored stains on the edges.

Hauttyuniya prefers to place a well illuminated by sunlight. In the shaded areas the leaves will have a faded color. For a good development of the plant requires a strong soil moisture, therefore hauttyuniyu serdtselistnuyu should be planted near water.

However, if in rockeries or mixborders easy vysokogumusny substrate, then with abundant watering the plant does not lose its highly ornamental.

It propagated by dividing rhizomes of perennial. To this end kidney sections rhizomes are planted in the resumption of the groove to a depth of 12 cm. Also it allowed the multiplication by seed, for this early in the spring, with the onset of warm weather, the seeds were sown in moist soil abundantly.

Seeds hauttyuynii fairly light-sensitive, so they are planted so that they were in the uppermost layers of the soil.

To prevent the capture of the roots of large areas is necessary to limit the spread of threadlike roots via buried in the ground plane slate sheets, metal or other similar materials.

In winter hauttyuyniyu must cover compost or fallen leaves. Young plants in the spring can be a long time do not grow, it does not mean that they are gone.

Highly decorative and long leaves hauttyuynii allows you to place the plant in the foreground rock gardens, as well as on the waterfront in front of decorative kinds of sedges and rushes.

Due to the diversity of, brightness, coloring hauttyunii leaves make a worthy competition to many colors in the mixed compositions. They will ornament flower garden from early spring until the first frost.