Plant: Midnight Oil - Hosta - Medium
Hosta · Hosta 'Midnight Oil'
$21.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A medium hosta with very shiny, dark green leaves that are heavily corrugated and cupped and thick enough to resist slugs. It forms a broad mound about 16 inches tall and 40 inches across and sends up medium purple flowers in July. Plant it in part to full shade with moist, well-drained soil in a border or woodland edge.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A medium hosta with very shiny, dark green leaves that are heavily corrugated and cupped and thick enough to resist slugs. It forms a broad mound about 16 inches tall and 40 inches across and sends up medium purple flowers in July. Plant it in part to full shade with moist, well-drained soil in a border or woodland edge.
- Flowers
- Bell to trumpet shaped blooms are carried in a raceme on a scape above the foliage in summer.
- Foliage
- Very shiny dark green leaves, heavily corrugated and cupped with thick substance.
- Fruit
- Small capsules split open at maturity and release many flat, winged black seeds.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Native range
- Russian Far East, China, Japan and Korea
