Hostas prove that variety is the spice of life, at least when it comes to their role in the landscape. Their large leaves come in a range of colors, shapes and textures and last for years. With ...

Shadowland Giant Lone Star hosta, the star of this column, is as the tag suggests, a large variety. It may reach 28 inches ...

Some plants ease their way into your heart and before you know it, you're suddenly collecting cultivars like they're stamps or baseball cards. If you have a woodland garden filled with hosta species, ...

Blue Wedgwood belongs on your dining table—and in your garden. ‘Blue Wedgwood’ is a hosta hybrid that gets its name from the famed English china maker, and with its mounds of strongly veined blue ...

After four years of attempting to trace hosta ancestry through DNA fingerprinting, Dave Koetje has come to a conclusion: “Hostas are weird,” he says. Since 2002 Koetje, a Calvin College biology ...

If you ever want to go to Hosta heaven, visit the Garden District in New Orleans. Thousands of varieties are grown there. Hosta is one of our most beloved shade garden plants as evidenced by the way ...

Mary Lewnes Albrecht UT Gardens, Knoxville Jun 7, 2025 Jun 7, 2025 With more than 10,000 or so cultivars to choose from, why not try hostas? Hosta species and cultivars, sometimes called plantain lily ...

PIKE LAKE — Karen Younggren said it's taken about 25 years for her garden to become the hosta haven it is today. She has over 220 species of hosta, a shade-loving green leafy perennial, growing in her ...

Is your patch of hostas plagued by hungry herbivores? The solution may lie in planting a barrier with a feathery plant that ...

decorative plants in a shade garden, including hosta, ferns, heuchera, and bergenia - Flower_Garden/Shutterstock Some plants ease their way into your heart and before ...