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Plant: Wiggles N Squiggles - Hosta
Hosta · Hosta 'Wiggles and Squiggles'
$15.00
Size: 1 gal
Light
Part Shade
Bloom
Summer
More about this plant
A small hosta about 8 to 10 inches tall and 24 inches wide with yellow, wavy edged leaves that turn greener in deeper shade. Lavender flowers open in midsummer. Morning sun and afternoon shade give the best yellow color; it is hardy to zone 3.
- Part Shade
- Blooms in summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 3-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A small hosta about 8 to 10 inches tall and 24 inches wide with yellow, wavy edged leaves that turn greener in deeper shade. Lavender flowers open in midsummer. Morning sun and afternoon shade give the best yellow color; it is hardy to zone 3.
- Flowers
- Lavender flowers in midsummer rising above the foliage; with scapes the plant reaches about 18 inches.
- Foliage
- Yellow leaves with wavy margins that look greener in deeper 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.
