Hostas
1st and Ten
Hosta '1st and Ten'
1st and Ten
Very Large, (32" X 50") This is a big hosta! It is almost 3 feet tall with very large shovel-like blue-green leaves with good substance. Part of Doug Beilstein's gridiron series, it is a seedling from his very popular 'Brutus'. Dramatic leaf veins and upright habit.
Abiqua Drinking Gourd
Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd'
Abiqua Drinking Gourd
H.'Abiqua Drinking Gourd' has round, cardboard-like, deeply-cupped, powder-blue leaves on a 2' wide clump. In early summer, the clumps are topped with white flowers.
Abraham Lincoln
Hosta 'Abraham Lincoln'
Abraham Lincoln
Hosta is 16" high by 36" wide. Semi-upright. Blue with 10 +" long by 7" wide thick heavily corrugated rich blue-green leaves. Flowers are pale purple which open on 27" scapes from late June into late July.
Afterglow
Hosta 'Afterglow'
Afterglow
Their subtle colors, tall flower scapes, and broad, coarse leaves fill a niche in garden designs that few other plants can achieve. Their large leaves provide excellent coverage for dying bulb foliage. All hostas also grow well in city environments where the air may be polluted by car exhaust, etc.
Age of Gold
Hosta 'Age of Gold'
Age of Gold
From renowned Hosta breeder Hans Hansen comes a new large gold hosta. With golden yellow leaves, this is the perfect specimen for making a statement in the shade with its upright spreading habit and large smooth leaves. In midsummer, near white, tubular flowers appear with a very faint pale lavender central pattern on the interior petals. Plant in morning sun or filtered shade for best yellow color.
Aggressive Behavior
Hosta 'Aggressive Behavior'
Aggressive Behavior
Aggressive Behavior is a new introduction from Rod Kuenster. It makes a genuinely nice large clump that is a good grower. Broadly ovate leaves have a blue center with creamy to white edge with nice corrugation and slightly wavy leaves.
All That Jazz
Hosta 'All That Jazz'
All That Jazz
Hosta All That Jazz is a beautiful large variegated Hosta plant that forms a symmetrical mound of foliage. The green and gold variegated Hostas have become very commonplace in shade gardens but this lovely plant stands out among them.
Allegan Emperor
Hosta 'Allegan Emperor'
Allegan Emperor
The Allegan Emperor Hosta plant forms huge vase-shaped mounds that change colors from bluish green to a shiny dark green by July.
This hosta has a very thick substance with leaves a foot wide and long. Clusters of lavender flowers bloom in July on 48-inch scapes.
Allen C Haskell
Hosta 'Allen C Haskell'
Allen C Haskell
Large mound of heavily streaked foliage. Dark green eaves are streaked and mottled with yellow. As with most variegated hosta, divisions that emerge non-streaked need to be removed. Fertile lavender flowers in the summer.
Alligator Alley
Hosta 'Alligator Alley'
Alligator Alley
Aptly named, this medium to large sized hosta forms a coarsely textured mound of leathery, puckered, heart-shaped to round leaves of good substance.
It is a wide-margined sport of the long-popular 'Dick Ward', which is named for one of the most accomplished Hosta breeders in the United States. Its leaves display wide, blue-green margins with chartreuse centers that become yellow in summer.
Near-white flowers appear atop chartreuse scapes in early summer.
Hostas are exceedingly popular perennials in today's gardens due to their versatility in the landscape. Their subtle colors, tall flower scapes, and broad, coarse leaves fill a niche in garden designs that few other plants can achieve. Their large leaves provide excellent coverage for dying bulb foliage. Hostas also grow well in city environments where the air may be polluted by car exhaust, etc.
Alvatine Taylor
Hosta 'Alvatine Taylor'
Alvatine Taylor
The cultivar 'Alvatine Taylor' have large, thick, oval blue green with regular deep yellow edges. Bell shaped flowers in lavender to nearly white bloom on straight 18 inch stems in the mid-season.
Ambrosia
Hosta 'Ambrosia'
Ambrosia
Large, (24" X 54") Ambrosia is simply divine. It is a blue-margined, light yellow-centered sport of my own 'Guacamole' that performs just as well in the garden, making a large clump that enjoys bright light. Like ambrosia it is fragrant and may also have the same mythological healing powers. This hosta is close to perfection.
American Gothic
Hosta 'American Gothic'
American Gothic
12" long by 8" wide; blue-green in the center with a wide, gold to creamy white margin; moderately corrugated and thick-substance.
Pale lavender flowers open on three-foot scapes in July. Medium to fast growth rate.
American Halo
Hosta 'American Halo'
American Halo
Hosta 'American Halo' forms an impressive mound of corrugated foliage. A large clump of intense blue-green leaves with a very wide, slightly rippled cream margin. The margins start out creamy yellow and age to creamy white. Leaf color blue-green to dark green in the center with a 1 3/4″ wide margin that changes from light greenish yellow to creamy white; leaf blade broadly oblong-ovate, wavy, heavily corrugated and thick-substanced.
Leaf Size: 14" x 10"
Blooms: Near white in early summer.
Light: Moderate to full shade for best color. -- Soil: Rich, moist, well-drained.
Similar and Related Plants: Celestial, Northern Exposure, Northern Halo, Robert Frost
American Yeti
Hosta 'American Yeti'
American Yeti
Very Large: A giant of all giants! Giant blue-green leaves are nicely-puckered and crimped: veins are deeply impressed above: elevated below; nearly round apex of leaf has a short blunt tip. Foilage mound grew to 65″ wide x 44″ tall in 4-5 years, most likely will get larger in time. White flowers in mid-July stay below top of foliage mound. Very fertile.
Amos
Hosta 'Amos'
Amos
Very Large hosta with green round leaves that measure 14” x 10” Near white flower in June. Extremely thick leaves that cup upward and downward with wrinkled appearance. A very rare find, and wanted by most hosta lovers.
Andrew
Hosta 'Andrew'
Andrew
This hosta is a variegated sport of the famous H. 'Blue Mammoth.' The thick blue-green leaves show off a white center with a medium blue-green margin and a narrow green pattern between the blue and cream layers. Pale lavender tubular-shaped blowers bloom early in summer.
Angel Falls
Hosta 'Angel Falls'
Angel Falls
Angel Falls formed an attractive rounded mound of green leaves with white centers. Green margins are up to 2" wide with lighter green area where margin and center overlap. Mature leaves arch downward with rippled margin. Light lavender-pink flowers appear in midsummer.
Ann Kulpa
Hosta 'Ann Kulpa'
Ann Kulpa
Hosta 'Ann Kulpa' has beautiful heart-shaped green leaves with a center that emerges cream and turns white. Where the center meets the margin there are bands of chartreuse. The white center holds up well through the season. Thick leaves give this hosta good vigor and slug resistance. Pale lavender flowers mid-summer. Medium Hosta. Mature Size: 19"T x 40"W.
Aomori Gold
Hosta 'Aomori Gold'
Aomori Gold
Gold, brilliant, luminescent gold foliage, especially bright in spring.
Aphrodite
Hosta plantaginea 'Aphrodite'
Aphrodite
Aphrodite is a shiny green medium hosta that is mainly grown for the beautiful doubled white flowers and sweet fragrance.
Aphrodite has large, white fragrant flowers that blooms in mid-August. During the spring and summer months, 'Aphrodite' is a plain green shiny leafed hosta.
Appletini
Hosta 'Appletini'
Appletini
This beautiful hosta is six inches high by 14 inches wide; compact. The color of the leaves are gold. The leaves are 3 inches long by 2 + inches wide. In the spring the leaf color is a bright yellow, changing to apple green by July 1st. The leave is wavy, smoothly-textured, and a good substance. By August, pale purple flowers will start to appear on nine inch scapes.
Aristocrat
Hosta 'Aristocrat'
Aristocrat
Hosta 'Aristocrat' is small. Intense blue corrugated leaves. Yellow-creamy edges turn to a white-cream by summer. Mound-like with moderate growth rate. Pale lavender flowers. Lightly corrugated leaves are broadly ovate with insignificant veins.
Atlantis
Hosta 'Atlantis'
Atlantis
Hosta 'Atlantis' is a superb tetraploid mutation of Hosta 'Abba Dabba Do' from Michigan's Hans Hansen. This amazing hosta makes a huge 5' wide clump of slightly wavy, pointed, green leaves. Each leaf is bordered with a very wide, light yellow margin. In mid-summer, the vigorous clump is topped with 30" spikes of hummingbird attracting light lavender flowers. Stunning!
August Moon
Hosta 'August Moon'
August Moon
Wonderful contrast when planted with small-leaved plants, adding texture to the landscape. This cultivar has heart-shaped, puckered pale green leaves, 6 inches long becoming golden yellow with a faint glaucous bloom. In summer, 28 inch tall stalks bear grayish white flowers. 20 inches tall, 30 inches wide.
Autumn Frost
Hosta 'Autumn Frost'
Autumn Frost
'Autumn Frost' is a sport of the 2010 Hosta of the Year, 'First Frost', which in turn is a sport of the champion of blue hostas, 'Halcyon'. It is a showier version of 'First Frost', displaying extra wide margins.
Avocado
Hosta 'Avocado'
Avocado
Hosta 'Guacamole' with dark green margin which is quite wide and surrounds a narrow gold center. Overall appearance of the plant is a lot darker than its parent and the leaves seem to be thicker. Pale lavender fragrant flowers. Large mound size at maturity.
Azure Frills
Hosta 'Azure Frills'
Azure Frills
This hosta is fifteen inches high and thirty-seven inches wide. The leaves have blue shades and are nine inches long with a six inch in width. They are heavily rippled and good substance. The pale and purple flowers will bloom from early to late summer on twelve to twenty inch scapes that tend to cascade. This gorgeous hosta will grow at a medium to fast growth rate.
Baby Blue Eyes
Hosta 'Baby Blue Eyes'
Baby Blue Eyes
Hosta 'Baby Blue Eyes' is a mini hosta. This hosta forms a tight, flat mound of heart-shapped pretty blue leaves that grow fast! Light lavender flowers will bloom on short scapes in mid July. The foliage is a blue-green color. Miniature hosta.
Baby Booties
Hosta 'Baby Booties'
Baby Booties
The hosta 'Baby Booties' is a miniature hosta, approximately 7 inches tall by 12 inches wide. This hosta has very showy leaves, being a dark green with creamy, white margins and a rounded shape. Lavender flowers add to the beauty in the middle of summer when they bloom.
Bachelor Party
Hosta 'Bachelor Party'
Bachelor Party
Hosta 'Bachelor Party' is a medium sized hosta ranging around 14 inches tall by 30 inches wide. This hosta will form twisted and folded dark green leaves with a contrasting attractive white margin. The clump will produces amazing bright purple flower blooms in the middle of summer.
Banana Tree Hosta
Hosta 'Banana Tree'
Banana Tree Hosta
'Banana Tree' is a very unique hosta, which makes a giant clump of metallic blue-green leaves, measuring over 44″ tall. The stems that emerge in the spring are 9″ in circumference. This hosta is tropical looking, hence the name 'Banana Tree'.
Barbara Ann
Hosta 'Barbara Ann'
Barbara Ann
Hosta 'Barbara Ann' is a tissue culture sport of Hosta 'Elegans' with great variegation. Like its parent it is rather slow growing but will make a wonderful specimen when it matures. Forms a stunning clump of thick blue-gray leaves with very attractive cream to white margins. This hosta is corrugated, blue-green leaves with a broad margins. Near-white flowers appear on 24" scapes in midsummer.
Leaf Size: 12" x 9"
Blooms: Near white in early summer.
Light: Moderate to full shade for best color.
Soil: Rich, moist, well-drained.
Similar and Related Plants: American Halo, Elegans, Northern Exposure
Bear Necessities
Hosta 'Bear Necessities'
Bear Necessities
This is a large hosta that is very fragrant flowered. It sports large deep green leaves, which are rounded and puckered, giving it a look like sieboldiana. Fast and looks beautiful late into the season. 'Bear Necessities' is green, with slightly corrugated leaves. It is an all green sport of 'Honey Bear'. Grows 18" tall by 40" wide.
Beautiful Dreamer
Hosta 'Beautiful Dreamer'
Beautiful Dreamer
Medium sized hosta with lavender flowers. Blue-green leaves with wide yellow borders in the spring that later turn dark green with striking white borders.
Beer Belly Blues
Hosta 'Beer Belly Blues'
Beer Belly Blues
Beer Belly Blues is a hybrid from Rod Kuenster. It is a large hosta: 26″ x 36″, upright form with thick, blue/green leaves. Near white flowers in July.