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Many other fall perennials can usually be cut back in spring, but hostas are different. Brown decaying foliage makes the plant's crown susceptible to garden pests and rodents.
This means you will cut back hostas sometime in the late fall to early winter when the temperatures have dropped below 30 degrees F. The plant will become limp and wilted, which is the sign that ...
Hostas (and many other plants) look more natural when grouped in odd numbers. Creating a plant museum Planting one of each variety may please the plant collector, but it won't please the visual ...
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.
At first some people bought the infected hostas, believing that they were new cultivars of the plant. [3] Hosta cultivars such as "Break Dance," "Eternal Father," "Leopard Frog," "Blue Freckles," and "Lunacy" were not actual new cultivars, but instead were hostas infected with Hosta virus X that were mistakenly believed to be new cultivars.
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 fall, clean up vegetation from areas where you’ve had problems during the season, such as near your hostas or daylilies, says Wilber. This may reduce overwintering eggs.
Hosta venusta, the handsome plantain lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Jeju Island of South Korea, with a few populations in central Japan.