Cut Funkia: To neglect?

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• Cut Funkia: To neglect?
• Foliage has protective function
• The old foliage - winter shelter and shelter
• You do not like the withered foliage?
• Remove old plant parts in the spring
• Cut off the old inflorescences
• Tips

Dried leaves on the radio should be removed

Cut Funkia: To neglect?

Throughout the summer, the hosta has shown its best side: tastefully designed and colorful leaves that have been overdriven by lavender flowers in June. Now is the fall and the question arises: does the hosta need a pruning?

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Foliage has protective function

It is best not to cut the leaves. They are a natural winter shelter when they fall down in the fall and lay over the root area of ​​the plant. Whoever does not remove them, but leaves them, does not need to prepare their radio for the winter elsewhere.

The old foliage - winter shelter and shelter

After the first frost has passed over the funk, the leaves topple over. They begin to wither visibly. In addition to their function as winter protection, they represent an important refuge over the winter time for insects.

You do not like the withered foliage?

Who thinks that the old foliage does not look nice, but disturbs the overall picture, can of course remove it. Thus, however, eliminates the winter protection and must otherwise be made available, for example, by Tannenreisig. In autumn, you can cut away the leaves if you do not like them.

Remove old plant parts in the spring

If you left the foliage on the radioie:

Cut off the old inflorescences

In addition to removing the old leaves, the inflorescences should be cut off in the summer. This also applies to Funkien in the bucket. The flowers are on the long stems, which shoot up from about the middle of June. Cut these stems down when the flowering time is over.

If you do not, the black seed capsules will form:

Tips

The leaves can also be cut from May to August and serve, for example, for floristic purposes (bouquets or arrangements).