Click below to listen to my 2 min. Garden Bite radio show/podcast: New hostas and a family drama
My niece wants me to help her landscape her place. Sadly she had a fire and her home was destroyed. It is being rebuilt but that’s quite a process. In the meantime she’s given me this information to work with: nothing that takes any time and no hosta. How is she even related to me!!
I’ll be breaking the news to her that EVERY landscape takes some effort, even the easy ones like hosta and native grasses. 😉
My niece had torn out all the old plain green hostas. Admittedly they were overgrown and boring. What she doesn’t know is that there are 2 new Proven Winners hosta with a lotta somethin’ to love and I’m going to do my best to convince her to try them! These are both from the Shadowland series. ‘Echo the Sun’ is a bright yellow hosta with nicely rippled margins. It’s compared to a gold version of the blue ‘Diamond Lake’.
It grows to 19 inches tall but has a spread of nearly 4 ft. in full to part shade. It’s a standout for sure and hardy to zone 3.
Another rippled leaf beauty is called ‘Voices in the Wind’. Blue-green wedge-shaped variegated leaves have very ruffled, creamy yellow margins. Pale lavender flowers appear in mid to late summer.
I love the texture of these hosta. They add so much to the look of your landscape. And I hope my niece’s!
These zone 3 hardy Hosta’s flowers bloom in mid to late summer and are attractive to hummingbirds.
A full to part shade plant with some spring flowers is a new Pulmonaria called ‘Pink-a-Blue’. Pink flower buds open to medium blue flowers in early spring. Long green leaves are dappled with silver spots, it’s also deer and rabbit resistant.
