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To care for hostas in the fall, keep watering but pull back on fertilizing. The foliage will naturally start to die back. At that point, it's best to cut the plants to the ground to prevent pests or diseases from infesting the depreciating foliage. Hostas in winter are overall hardy and survive just fine.


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Often, when you are interested in unusual and wild foods, a season for a delectable treat may only last for a few short days or weeks. A fun early spring food that is usually popping up around or before Beltane in temperate parts of North America is the hosta.. eat hostas foraging harvesting hostas hosta in butter hosta photos hosta recipes.


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Height: 6" Width: 16". Curly Fries is a unique hosta. It has very long narrow leaves and wavy edges and it is a beautiful chartreuse color. This hosta is great softening for edges in a garden, it almost has the appearance of a sedge grass with its graceful arched appearance.


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H. sieboldiana "Elegans" is a very large hosta. Five to 6-year-old clumps produce mounds 6 to 7 ft across and 30 in. high in good growing conditions. The heavily textured and crinkled large round leaves have a nice blue sheen early in the season. The whitish flowers are very fragrant and appear early.


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Blue Mouse Ears - miniature Hosta that grows to 7″ tall and 19″ wide with thick, rounded, slug-resistant, blue-green to gray-green leaves. American Hosta Growers Hosta of the Year 2008. ( Find it here *). Halcyon - medium Hosta growing to 18″ tall and 43″ wide with heart-shaped blue leaves and violet flowers.


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4. August Moon. The heart-shaped, green-gold leaves of this hosta turn bright yellow with sun exposure. Hence its name.White to pale lavender flowers appear in summer. Height/Width: 24-25 inches; 24-36 inches. Colors: Yellow-green. Sunlight Requirement: Partial to full shade. USDA Zone: 3-8. 5.


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Take off a handful or two from each plant and there will be more space for the remaining stalks to thrive. Giant hosta varieties will be a bit taller and have a lot more girth. Mini hosta varieties may be much smaller. Regardless of the variety, choose shoots that are tightly coiled and haven't opened their leaves.


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22. Hosta Patriot. This one is another popular hosta which sports glossy, heart shaped leaves with prominent, white margins up to the stalk. They grow in an upright, overlapping manner, hence the name. It also features purple-colored flowers, grows at 12-22-inches and comes with a spread of 36-48-inches.


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Here are 17 of the most famous types of Hostas. 1. Hosta Whirlwind. This perennial is the perfect choice for your shady garden as it grows green leaves that change colors throughout the season. The heart-shaped leaves are creamy white or lime with dark green margins. The centers become dark green by late summer.


Moose Country Gardening More Hostas

There are over 40 different species of hosta and thousands of different cultivars. The most popular hosta species include Hosta plantaginea, Hosta ventricosa, and Hosta sieboldiana. Thousands of popular named cultivars have been bred from these wild hosta species and are now grown in gardens around the world. Contents show General types of hostas Hosta.


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White Christmas - A popular medium-sized hosta. It's leaves are white with green edges. Climax - A large, slow-growing hosta variety with golden edges on the leaves. First Frost - A sturdy, pest-resistant hosta variety with deep green leaves with golden to white edges. Sugar and Spice and Cathedral Windows are the varieties with the.


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It features large puckered dark green leaves with wide yellow irregular margins and slender spikes of lavender flowers in the summer. Name: Wide Brim hosta ( Hosta x 'Wide Brim') USDA Hardiness Zones: 3-8. Flower Color: Lavender. Light: Partial shade, full shade. Mature Size: 18-24 in. tall, 24-36 in. wide. 03 of 12.


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Eye-catching variegation enhances any leaf shape Photo: courtesy of Walters Gardens Inc. Illustration: Carol Collins 'Afterglow' Introduced: 2012 Plant size: 2 feet tall and 4 feet wide Leaf size: 10 to 12 inches long and wide I like hostas that are so distinctive they can't be mistaken for anything else, and ' Afterglow' fits the bill. This sport of 'Climax' forms an impressive.


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Companion plants can provide wonderful colors and textures alongside hostas. Shade perennials that combine well with hostas include ferns, dicentra, heuchera, pulmonaria, astilbes, and perennial geraniums. For annuals, try impatiens, dusty miller and strawberry begonias. Continue to 9 of 9 below. 09 of 09.


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The popular 'Striptease' hosta is a tricolor variety; each green leaf has a golden stripe down the center that is edged by a thin white line. This hosta flowers with pale purple blooms in mid-July to early August. Size: 20 inches tall, 36 inches wide. Zones: 3-9. Slug Resistant: No. Flowers: Light purple. 03 of 26.


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In more mature plants, the leaves remain textured. 6. Golden Tiara. shutterstock/Bankiras. Featuring wide heart-shaped leaves adorned with yellow margins, Golden Tiara is a smaller plant that develops into a spreading mound. It is one of the best Types of Hostas you could grow! 7. Guacamole.