Plantain Lily Hosta. Hosta Plantain Lily is a genus of shade tolerant perennial plants widely cultivated for their incredible elegance and colorful leaves. A perfect backdrop plant to fill in the shade garden.
In general Hosta prefer moist well-drained cool soil. It forms attractive dense mounds of glossy bright green leaves broadly oval with parallel veins and a quilted surface and enlivens any shady area of the garden. To 2123 feet.
Hosta purists often nip off the flower stalks before they can bloom preferring to throw all the growth into the all-important foliage of the plants.
Glossy bright green leaves to 10 inches long broadly oval with. Their form is clumping or mount forming with short sometimes stoloniferous rhizomes. Fragrant white flowers shoot up tall and proud attracting many pollinators. The larger varieties can be truly architectural and stand out as specimen plants while other forms are ideal for edging lighting up a woodland or stabilizing a slope.
