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Plant: Fire Island - Hosta - Small
Hosta
$12.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A small hosta with thick, slightly corrugated, rippled-edge leaves on red petioles. They come up gold to bright yellow in spring and darken to bold chartreuse in summer. The clump is about 10 to 16 inches tall and 24 to 30 inches wide. Lavender tubular flowers rise above the foliage in midsummer, July to August.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A small hosta with thick, slightly corrugated, rippled-edge leaves on red petioles. They come up gold to bright yellow in spring and darken to bold chartreuse in summer. The clump is about 10 to 16 inches tall and 24 to 30 inches wide. Lavender tubular flowers rise above the foliage in midsummer, July to August.
- Flowers
- Lavender tubular flowers on scapes above the foliage in July and August.
- Foliage
- Thick, slightly corrugated leaves with rippled margins, gold to bright yellow in spring turning chartreuse, on red petioles.
- Fruit
- Loculicidal capsules that split open at maturity.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Russian Far East to China, Japan, and Korea
