Hosta
Hostas are an exceptionally diverse family of woodland plants. Grown primarily for their fantatstic foliage, many also have lovely blooms, some of which are quite fragrant. They are able to tolerate a wide range of conditions, but generally prefer bright light in shaded areas. Although some hostas can take a small amount of sun, we know of no hosta that can take full sun here in central Virginia. Blue hostas maintain their color best in cool, lightly shaded situations. Some hostas will change or temporarily lose their variegation in the heat of summer.
Hostas will grow in ordinary garden soil and withstand drought and dry soils, but they are most beautiful when provided with ample moisture and organic matter. Fertilize lightly in spring for best plant development and mulch with organic matter to moderate soil temperature and moisture loss. Remove old foliage when it dies in the fall.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Deep blue-green leaves are heavily cupped and corrugated. Foliage is so cupped that when it rains, they often hold water in their leaves. An excellent specimen hosta. Near white flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Green leaves with irregular creamy-white margins that maintain their variegation all season. Lavender flowers in July. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Huge (3.5), fragrant, double white blooms appear above mounds of glossy green foliage from late July to September. Probably the most fragrant hosta available!
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Large, heavily corrugated, greenish-gold leaves. A classic gold hosta. Pale lavender flowers. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Dark green leaves framed with a golden border. Excellent landscape hosta. Lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
A miniature as cute as its name. Lovely rounded, little heart-shaped green leaves form broad mounds that are ideal for edging or use as a groundcover. Lavender blooms in July. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Thick, heavily corrugated leaves are rich blue-green and can reach 15" long and 10 1/2" wide. Slug resistant. One of the best large hostas. Near white blooms in June. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Huge, heavily textured blue leaves are held like angel's wings and can reach 16" long and 12" wide. One of the finest blue hostas. Near white flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Blue, heart-shaped leaves form dense mounds. Fast growth rate and good vigor make it a good ground cover and one of the best landscape hostas. Lavender blooms in July.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Shiny dark green leaves emerge bluish-green and mature to form a large mound. Near white flowers in July. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Blue wedge-shaped leaves have heavy substance and are slug resistant. One of the bluest hostas. Pale lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Heart-shaped blue-green leaves have heavy substance and are cupped. Blooms of Bressingham Introduction. Lavender flowers. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Touted as the best tokudama on the market. Large puckered gold leaves have a streaky blue margin. White flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Rich dark green, seersuckered leaves with wide, irregular white margins. Pale lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Large, heavily puckered, golden leaves with wide streaky dark green margins form large clumps at maturity. Heavy, slug-resistant leaves are topped by stems of near-white blossoms in early summer. Exceptional! Zones 3-8.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Pointed leaves are mostly white with irregular dark green margins. The name comes from its prominent cherry-red flower scapes and seed pods. Purple flowers in July and August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Creamy-white margined, corrugated green foliage. Lavender flowers on leafy scapes in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
This sport of 'Great Expectations' has large, nearly round, bluish-green leaves that are heavily corrugated and have narrow creamy white to yellow centers. White blooms appear in summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Pointed, blue-green heart-shaped leaves have a yellow margin. Can take some sun. Lavender flowers in late summer. Attractive to buttterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Liliy
Long tapered leaves of velvety blue have wavy margins. Clumps may reach 60 wide and are topped by medium lavender blooms in early summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Striking sport of 'Golden Tiara' with reverse variegation. Green margins surround a golden center. Purple flowers in July and August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
This sport of 'Whirlwind' has wonderful quilted leaves of black-green with brilliant white centers. Unlike its parent its color does not fade. Lavender blooms appear in mid-summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Heart-shaped leaves have white centers and broad dark green margins. Sport of 'Patriot'. Forms a medium sized mound. Exceptional. Lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Medium sized plant with chalky powder blue foliage. Lovely near-white, slightly fragrant flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Heart-shaped, glossy apple-green leaves with irregular creamy-yellow margins. Vigorous grower. Hosta of the Year 1998. Spikes of fragrant near-white flowers. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Thick dark green foliage with narrow, white margins that last all season. Premier landscaping hosta. Lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Large, puckered blue-green leaves with broad golden margins. Leaves can reach 13" long and 9" wide. Leaf edges tend to burn easily. Near white flowers in June and July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Bright gold, glossy leaves. Fast growing sport of 'Guacamole'. Lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees..
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Small elongated dark green leaves are edged in white. THE hosta for edging. Rapid grower. Purple blooms in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Center changes from green to chartreuse to gold to white gold and is surrounded by a dark green margin. A rapid grower and excellent hosta. Bright light needed for best color. Pale lavender flowers in July and August.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
A sport of Golden Tiara, this one forms bright gold, dense mounds of all gold, rounded leaves to brighten a dark corner of the garden. Slower growing than G. Tiara. Purple striped flowers in late July
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Outstanding sport of H. sieboldiana 'Elegans'. Center color changes from yellow in the spring to creamy-white with blue-green margins. Leaves are cupped and have thick substance. Slug resistant. Slow grower. Near white flowers in July.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Slightly corrugated foliage with green margins that surround a beautiful chartreuse and later, bright gold, center. Leaves can reach 11" long and 9" wide. Reverse variegation of 'Fragrant Bouquet'. Hosta of the Year 2002. Fragrant near white flowers.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Thick blue, spear-shaped, heavily ribbed leaves that hold their color well. Great in the landscape. Bluish-lavender flowers in July and August. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Large pale green oval leaves. Fast grower. Some sun tolerance. Fragrant pale lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Dark green leaves with broad irregular white margins that are speckled with green flecks. Sport of 'Revolution'. Pale lavender flowers in July. Plant Patented. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Bright gold, heart-shaped leaves bordered with a wide green margin. Heavily corrugated. Good slug resistance. Lavender flowers in July. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Smooth textured, glossy medium to dark green leaves. Fragrant lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Small, white-centered, green margined leaves are broadly ovate. Quite striking in the garden it makes a great edger! Pale purple flowers on purple-red petioles in July.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Large clumps of horizontally held, shiny gold leaves that are deeply veined and have lovely ruffled piecrust edges. Pale lavender to white flowers appear in early summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Sport of 'Halcyon' that has gold leaves bordered by a blue and green shaded margin. The leaf center bleaches to creamy-white in bright light. Excellent substance. Slug resistant. Pale lavender flowers in August. Hosta of the Year 2001.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Oval dark green leaves with broad, irregular creamy margins. Pale lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Powdery blue foliage forms a large vase-shaped clump. Holds color well. Bold upright specimen. Slug resistant. Lavender flowers in August. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Large, satiny, dark green, heart-shaped leaves have very shiny undersides, as well. The wavy-margined leaves form a medium-sized mound that is topped by purple-striped blooms in late July and August. Best appearance in full shade.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Wavy chartreuse foliage is edged in white and forms a large clump. Pale lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Miniature hosta with thick, heavily cupped and corrugated blue-green leaves that have wide white stripes in their centers. Spikes of near-white to lavender flowers arise in early summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Sporting long, arching blue-green leaves edged in white, this Tennessee-bred hosta exhibits superior vigor and color-fastness. The spreading form is reminiscent of a tarantula. Lavender blooms appear on tall scapes in late summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Bright yellow-green leaves with narrow white margins give this little hosta a perky look, perfect for the front of the bed.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Wide yellow margins that fade to creamy-white surround rich green centers. Sport of 'Sagae'. Lavender flowers in June. Plant Patented. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Improved tokudama. Intensely deep blue-green, cupped and corrugated leaves. Slug resistant. White flowers in June and July. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Clear white foliage is outlined by a dark green edge. Sport of 'Patriot'. Holds color well in the heat of summer. Lavender flowers. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Elongated heart-shaped, gray-green leaves on red petioles are accented by ruffled edges, which allow their waxy-white backs to show. Red flower scapes are adorned with lavender flowers in late summer. A lovely specimen hosta.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Sport of 'Francee'. Large leaves with 3/4" white margins surrounding a glossy dark center. Has a darker green center and purer white margin than 'Patriot'. Maintains color in heat. Lavender flowers in July and August.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Clear, slightly wavy white leaves with a 2 1/2" dark green border. Lavender flowers in July and August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Gold margined leaves with blue-green centers. The best replacement for 'Frances Williams' because of similar leaf coloration and leaf margins that do not burn. Lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
This vigorous sport of 'Paul's Glory' has blue leaves with a large center that emerges bright yellow, turns an orangish gold, and ends up pale yellow. Beautiful. Lavender flowers in July. Plant Patented. Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Beautiful creamy-gold heart-shaped leaves have a wide blue-green margin and are nicely puckered, like old-fashioned seersucker. White blooms with a touch of lavender in early summer. 2007 Hosta of the Year.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. Looks good all season. Sport of 'Francee'. Lavender flowers in August. Hosta of the Year 1997. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
A spectacular hosta with chartreuse centered foliage that changes to bright gold by summer. Heart-shaped leaves are bordered by blue-green margins. Hosta of the Year 1999. Lavender flowers in July.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Narrow, rippled leaves emerge green and change to bright gold with a green margin by midsummer. Fast growing. Lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Unusual erect, narrow leaves resemble praying hands. Each green leaf is rolled and folded into a tube shape, displaying the prominent veins on the back of the leaf. A thin white margin borders the outside edge of the leaf. A must-have for collectors!
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Extremely glossy green foliage with creamy yellow margins that fade to white. Lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Red stems and red flower petioles! Shiny, blue-green lance-shaped leaves have burgundy red stems and lavender flowers, which appear in late summer, are on deep wine-red stems as well!
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Interesting 1/4" creamy margin surrounds powder-blue glossy foliage. Sport of 'Krossa Regal'. Upright growth habit. Slug resistant. Light lavender flowers in July and August. Hosta of the Year 2003. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Pure white centers with contrasting blue-green borders. Sport of 'June'. A portion of the royalties go to support breast cancer research. Light lavender flowers in July. Plant Patented. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
White centered leaves are splattered with dark green flecks and are surrounded by irregular dark green margins. Purple flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Large vase-shaped mound of thick textured foliage whose leaves can reach 13" long by 10" wide. Green centered leaves with wavy 1/2" creamy-yellow margins. Hosta of the Year 2000. Lavender flowers. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Green margined, gold-centered mutation of 'August Moon'. Excellent substance. Slug resistant. Lavender flowers. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Wavy green leaves with a wide 1" margin that changes from yellow to creamy white. Leaf edges turn upward into a boat shape, hence the name. Lavender flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Wide yellow margin that changes to creamy-white by midsummer. Medium to dark green center. Rapid grower and great in the landscape. Hosta of the Year 1996. Very fragrant, near white flowers in August. Award winner.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Sport of 'Guacamole' that differs by displaying its variegation earlier in the spring and maintaining much brighter, brilliant gold coloration Very wide, dark green margins. Prominent veins give it a "stained glass" effect. Hosta of the Year 2006.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Narrow, wavy green leaves with a thin creamy-white border. Excellent dwarf hosta for edging. Purple flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Huge, thick glossy chartreuse leaves can reach 16" long and 14" wide. Needs bright light for best color. Spectacular. Slug resistant. Lavender flowers. Award winner. Hosta of the Year 2004. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Wonderful 1 1/2" wide gold margins surround a rich green center and has an excellent growth rate. The 50" wide clump hosts light lavender flowers in early summer.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Brilliant white centers and two-tone chartreuse to gold margins characterize the leaves of this delightful hosta. The large leaves are slightly twisted and broadly ovate. This one can take morning sun!
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Unique twisted and pointed golden leaves. Rapidly grows into a beautiful clump. Choice gold hosta. Lavender flowers in July. Award winner. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Intense blue leaves have a distinct slash of gold down their centers; a green margin appears where the two colors overlap. A tetraploid form of H. 'June', leaves have heavy substance and are held more upright than 'June'. Plant Patented.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Miniature with narrow light green leaves and thin dark green edge. Lance shaped leaves have a slight twist and rippled edge. Dark purple flowers in mid June. Rapid grower.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Dark green margins surround a whitish center with green streaking and veining that changes to dark green by summer. Nice specimen plant. Lavender flowers in August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Blue-green leaves with wide irregular margins of yellow that change to creamy-white. Fast grower. Abundant lavender flowers in July and August. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Wide, elongated, heart-shaped leaves with a crisp yellow edge. One of the first hostas to emerge in spring. Excellent color all season. White flowers in July. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Can be grown under black walnut trees.
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Common Name: Plantain Lily
Shiny, light green, heart-shaped leaves. Bright filtered sun improves vigor and blooming. The only 1 night blooming hosta whose blooms stay open through the next day. VERY fragrant, large white tubular flowers in August.
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Common Name: Hosta / Plantain Lily
Large blue-gray leaves are heavily corrugated and can reach 15" long and 11" wide. The blue hosta to which all others are compared. Slug resistant. Specimen. Near white flowers in June. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds.
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