The leaves can be blue, yellow, or green.
In addition to all this variety in color, these stars of the foliage world are oftenvariegated.
Once established, hostas are incredibly easy to propagate by dividing the root clumpsin the fallor spring.
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Here are 12 excellent hosta types that execute the gamut of foliage color.
The American Hosta Society recommends an annual feeding of a slow-release fertilizer.
Because it grows low, damage fromslugs and snailsmay be more evident than with larger varieties.
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The heart-shaped, sulfur-yellow leaves form a flat, spreading mound, and lavender flowers bloom in the summer.
This hybrid makes a good edging plant.
In mature plants, the leaves are rippled and corrugated.
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Unlike most yellow hostas, this cultivar doesn’t tolerate much direct sun.
Lavender blooms appear in mid-summer.
The very large, heart-shaped yellow-to-golden leaves are glossy and have deep texture.
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This is a typical golden hosta that needs a fair amount of sun to bring out its best color.
Fragrant bell-shaped flowers bloom in late summer atop 38-inch stalks.
This multiple prize winner is among the best of the yellow hosta types.
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In late summer, the plant blooms with funnel-shaped purple flowers on 25-inch stalks.
‘Golden Tiara’ has a reputation for toleratingdry soilsbetter than most hostas.
These cultivars all have blue leaves and grow best in near-full shade.
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The broad spear-shaped leaves are heavily textured.
Lavender or lilac-blue flowers appear in late summer.
The large, heart-shaped leaves are glossy and heavily textured, featuring a green or blue-green color.
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Funnel-shaped white flowers with a bluish tinge appear on 36-inch stems in late spring to early summer.
This plant grows slowly and may take several years to reach its adult size and shape.
Large pale-lavender flowers appear on 24-inch stalks in early to midsummer.
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This is an especially fast-growing plant, allowing for division and propagation almost every year.
Variegated hostas are usually green with white or yellow margins.
For example, ‘Undulata Variegata’ is white in the middle with green at the edges.
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These plants produce lavender blooms in early summer.
This cultivar is a “sport,” a genetic mutation of another popular hosta,H.
This large variegated hosta has huge (12-inch) heart-shaped leaves with a puckered texture and prominent veins.
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The leaves are predominately blue-green with irregular greenish-yellow margins, which lighten to a creamy white with age.
This hosta pop in is very easy to grow, spreading as much as 5 feet over time.
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