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Plant: Sun Mouse - Hosta - Mini
Hosta · Hosta 'Sun Mouse'
$9.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A vigorous miniature hosta forming a clump about 6 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide of thick, slightly wavy golden foliage. Pale lavender flowers rise on 18 inch scapes in early to midsummer. Morning sun or filtered shade brings out the best gold color.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A vigorous miniature hosta forming a clump about 6 inches tall and 12 to 18 inches wide of thick, slightly wavy golden foliage. Pale lavender flowers rise on 18 inch scapes in early to midsummer. Morning sun or filtered shade brings out the best gold color.
- Flowers
- Pale lavender flowers in early to midsummer on scapes about 18 inches tall.
- Foliage
- Thick, slightly wavy golden to bright yellow leaves; the best gold color comes in morning sun or filtered shade.
- 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.
