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How to grow hostas
Learn how to grow hostas for a beautiful garden! Get tips on ideal planting location, soil preparation, watering, fertilizing, pruning & deadheading, and more.
Hostas, often celebrated as the heroes of shaded gardens, bring a delightful array of lush, leafy beauty to spaces that many flowering plants shy away from. Known for their striking foliage, which ranges in colors from deep greens to blues and even variegated patterns, hostas are versatile perennials that offer texture and form to gardens.
In this section, delve into the serene world of hostas, discovering their many varieties, care requirements, and the subtle flower spikes that many produce. Whether you have a sun-dappled corner or a deeply shaded nook, there’s a hosta ready to flourish there.
Learn how to grow hostas for a beautiful garden! Get tips on ideal planting location, soil preparation, watering, fertilizing, pruning & deadheading, and more.
Hostas grow best in sandy loam soil that’s rich in organic matter. Hostas prefer aβ¦
The Frances Williams hosta is a popular medium-sized variegated hosta cultivar. It has blue-green leavesβ¦
The Abiqua Drinking Gourd hosta is a medium-sized hosta with deeply cupped blue-green leaves. Establishedβ¦
While hostas are lovely on their own, they can be much better when surrounded byβ¦
Hostas have such a tropical look that it makes sense to want to plant aβ¦
Mini hostas are incredibly cute hosta varieties that tend to stay quite small even whenβ¦
Giant hostas are the largest cultivars of commonly available hostas, typically growing to a spreadβ¦
Hostas are one of the most diverse groups of plants available for gardeners, with hundredsβ¦
The Blue Mouse Ears Hosta is a miniature hosta variety known for its dusky roundedβ¦
Sum and Substance hosta is a very large hosta cultivar with wide light-green leaves. Individualβ¦
The Guacamole Hosta is a large, variegated foliage hosta variety known for its bright yellow-chartreuseβ¦
The Fire and Ice hosta is a medium-sized hosta variety known for its highly contrastingβ¦