Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Best of all, hostas are low-maintenance plants that anyone can grow. For most of the season, you won’t have to do much to keep them looking good. They like well-draining soils but can adapt to ...
A little maintenance can go a long way. ... To make the cuts, grab several clusters of hosta leaves in one hand and prune the leaves with the other. Once the foliage is cut back, add a layer of ...
Hosta sieboldiana by Abraham Jacobus Wendel, 1868. Hosta (/ ˈ h ɒ s t ə /, [5] syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants.
Symptoms include mosaic pattern on the leaves, malformed leaves and flowers, elongated shoots that are often red, and sometimes thorn proliferation. The distorted growth may be mistaken for herbicide damage. [12] There is no treatment for the disease, and control is limited to controlling the vector and destroying infected plants.
Hosta virus X (HVX) is a virus that infects hostas. [1] The disease was first identified in 1996 by Dr. Benham Lockhart at the University of Minnesota , and grouped with the potexviruses . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The virus has reached epidemic proportions and is not uncommon to find in many garden centers and nurseries .
Hostas in the 'Undulata' group include an all-green cultivar, 'Undulata Erromena'; a white-edged cultivar, 'Undulata Albomarginata'; and white-centered (medio-variegated) cultivars that may be grouped according to the amount of white in the leaf. The typical H. 'Undulata' has a wide white center, wider than the green of the margins.
In the case of leaf scorch through over-fertilization, recovery may take time, requiring a treatment of a slow leaching process through drip irrigation over 24–48 hours. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Prevention
Hosta ventricosa, the blue plantain lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southeast and south-central China, and introduced to the eastern United States. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] It reproduces by pseudogamous apomixis .