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Posted: May 7, 2019 at 4:20 PM
Hosta 'Red October'
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Plant Type: Hostas

This is a small to medium hosta that typically grows in an arching mound to 10″ tall and spreads over time to as much as 28″ wide. Lanceolate, dark green leaves (8″ long and 3.5″ wide) with acute tips and open bases that are silvery-white beneath. Leaf petioles are heavily speckled with red which bleeds into the leaf bases. Funnel-shaped lavender flowers in dense racemes appear in late summer on leafy, burgundy scapes rising above the foliage mound to 24″

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Flower Color

Lavander

Foliage Color

Green

Plant Spread

35"

Good Companions

Other shade loving plants

Plant Height

16"

Scape Height

24"

Hardness Zone

3-9

Soil Moisture

Moist, Rich, Organic

Characteristics & Attributes

Attributes

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Bloom Time

September - October

Critter Resistance

Rabbits

Exposure

Part-Full Shade

Growth Rate

Moderate to Fast

Seasonal Interests

Spring/summer