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Plant: Glad Rags - Hosta - Large
Hosta · Hosta 'Glad Rags'
$18.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A mounding hosta about 16 inches tall and 24 inches wide with dark green leaves and very wide golden yellow margins that fade toward cream through summer. Pale lavender flowers open in July. It prefers part to full shade in zones 3 to 9.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A mounding hosta about 16 inches tall and 24 inches wide with dark green leaves and very wide golden yellow margins that fade toward cream through summer. Pale lavender flowers open in July. It prefers part to full shade in zones 3 to 9.
- Flowers
- Pale lavender flowers in July on scapes about 16 inches tall; it sets no seed.
- Foliage
- Dark green centers with wide yellow margins that shift toward cream as summer goes on.
- Fruit
- Small loculicidal capsules that split open at maturity in fall, releasing small, flat, winged black seeds.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- No pruning is needed. The foliage dies back in late fall or winter and the dead leaves can be removed then. Divide clumps every 3 to 5 years in early spring as the leaves emerge.
- Native range
- The genus is native to the Russian Far East, China, Japan and Korea; named cultivars are garden selections.
