HOSTAS

Clockwise from top: Hosta August Moon, Hosta Francee, Hosta Guacamole.

HOSTAS

Hostas are extremely popular, hardy herbaceous perennial plants with outstanding foliage and flowers. Their leaves come in a range of colors including many shades of green, blue-gray, gold, yellow, and white. Leaf shapes vary from long and lance-like, to oblong, to heart-shaped. Hosta leaves can be smooth, puckered, ribbed, or leathery in texture. All hostas bloom in summer with spikes of lavender-to-white, lily-like flowers.

Hostas can fill a very important niche in your landscape as groundcover or foundation plants. They also make great container plants which can be placed anywhere you have good, filtered light. Try them at the front steps, on the patio, or set into a garden bed to fill a gap. Although hostas are considered shade-tolerant plants, most grow best in an exposure with morning sun and afternoon shade.

The Nursery at Reds stocks over 30 varieties of Hosta to illustrate their range of size, color, and form:

Albomarginata August Moon Big Daddy Blue Angel Blue Jay Blue Mouse Ears Blue Umbrellas Blue Wedgewood Bressingham Blue Brim Cup Cathedral Windows Earth Angel Elegans		Fire & Ice First Frost Francee Frances Wiliams Ginko Craig Gold Standard Golden Prayers Golden Tiara Great Expectations Guacamole Halcyon June Krossa Regal		Liberty Love Pat Loyalist Mediovariegata Night Before Christmas Olive Bailey Langdon Orange Marmalade Patriot Royal Standard Sea Thunder Sieboldiana Elegans Stained Glass Sum and Substance Sundancer Wide Brim

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