Hostas are so easy to grow that we rarely see a temperate shade garden without one. The dizzying selection of foliage means we never tire of them, either. A collection of blue, lime, creamy, and green ...
Hostas. I bet you can't grow just one. I always warn that they are addictive Forty years ago, there were only a few dozen varieties available. Nowadays, you can have hundreds of varieties. Some are ...
Hosta plants add a lush look to landscaping and flowerbeds, but it can be shocking when they suddenly go yellow. Luckily, ...
Hostas are one of the easiest ground covers to grow. Plant a spindly little snippet of a plant and it grows twice its size in no time at all. In a few years you will be digging it up, dividing it and ...
Our yard is, to the uninspired, a gardener’s nightmare. It has a steep incline with a northern exposure. The soil is acidic and moist. Trees surround us and the only available full sun is above and ...
GREEN BAY – What do cotton candy, curly fries, cracker crumbs, corn muffins, crumb cake and cream topping have in common? Throw in some cherry pie, cherry tomato, avocado, guacamole, fried bananas, ...
So versatile and ubiquitous are hostas that I have yet to visit a garden that doesn’t have at least one whether left by a previous gardener or selected by the present one. Hostas certainly are ...
) has registered about 5,000 hosta varieties, although hybridizer Mark Zilis, author of two books on these plants, estimates there may be as many as 8,000 identified cultivars. We’ve come a long way ...
What do cotton candy, curly fries, cracker crumbs, corn muffins, crumb cake and cream topping have in common? Throw in some cherry pie, cherry tomato, avocado, guacamole, fried bananas, strawberry ...
The award-winning Shadowland Autumn Frost hosta will stop you in your tracks. One of my Facebook followers wrote, “You will love it Norman. I have 300 assorted hostas!” That statement says it all; ...