Poecilophyllous plants can give singularity and charm to your site if them it is correct to arrange. They can bring cheerful note in the shaded corner or to become background for undersized hvoynik.
In leaves with spots and strips the chlorophyll is distributed unevenly. There are areas deprived of this green pigment. This property is used by selectors for removal of plants with new coloring of foliage.
Where to plant plants with motley foliage?
Many plants well fit into shady corners of your garden. It host, geysher, euonymus of forchun Harlequin. Thus poecilophyllous plants will bring color there where it is not enough where it is necessary. Besides and leaving they demand rather small.
In the winter the shortage of color in garden is sharply felt. Choose plants whose leaves will paint your garden fresh shades which will especially be allocated against the background of dark hvoynik. These are such plants as holly poecilophyllous, privet poecilophyllous. But they will badly take root in conditions with severe winters.
You can also decorate your house with set of motley deciduous plants in pots: Sansiviyeriya, dieffenbachia ""Tropic Snow", Reflex dragon tree ""Song of India" or bukharnik ...
How to combine poecilophyllous plants on bed?
Everything depends on foliage coloring. Do not forget about sense of proportion in combinations of coloring.
Plants with golden spottiness are very well combined with dark green hvoynik and, being in their half-shade, they do not burn down. It is also possible to combine leaves with "gold" spots and leaves purple for creation of the shining effect.
Plants with silvery foliage, such as Arabis poecilophyllous, are combined with many flowers: blue, red, yellow, white. Put them in half-shade and moderately: the surplus of gray color does bed boring, "sad".
Plants with white spots on leaves will well clarify shady corners. Also they will help to soften excessively bright colors on bed
Do not abuse poecilophyllous plants. They can bring visual disorder in your garden. No more than a third of plants in garden have to be with motley foliage. Also avoid association of two different motley plants.
How to look after poecilophyllous plants?
It is important to know that the pestrolistnost is transferred only at vegetative reproduction – shanks, layers, division. Sometimes on plant with motley foliage absolutely green escapes grow. It is necessary to remove them. The more often you will cut your bushes, the their spottiness will be shown more.