Green Up Your Garden with Hostas!
When you’re designing an ornamental garden, it’s important to keep a continuity of verdant texture flowing in order to tie the whole thing together. How do you keep a rich, green movement going throughout your garden that pulls everything from colorful blooms to hardscape features in to form an intelligent, eye pleasing palette? Look no further than fine gardening’s unsung heroes – hostas. These hard working, no-fuss perennials add the leafy emerald flow that makes your garden design go. So tap these tough guys, and green up your garden with hostas!
Ornamental garden design is a true art form. A good garden design creates a tranquilly satisfying environment in which all plants – and the people who admire them – are happy. But designing a beautiful and healthy garden can also be a challenge. Making sure that the elements which will make up your garden compliment one another is a major consideration. For example, all of the fabulous colors of your intended blooms, plus any hardscape features you may incorporate, need a unifying and “centering” factor. There can certainly be variation among your garden’s plants and structures, but it’s imperative that there is also continuity and cohesiveness in order to prevent them from creating a decidedly non-eye pleasing mishmash. They need foliage to pull them all together. They need leafy greenness, and they need lots of it. They need hostas.
Green Up Your Garden with Hostas: Add Color, Texture, and Continuity to Your Outdoor Haven
Hostas are definitely the key to introducing a rich, green continuity to any garden. They’re tough, beautiful, and require virtually no special care. And in my opinion, they don’t get nearly enough press (compared to showy bloomers like dahlias and roses, hostas are practically nonentities). But as far as my own garden goes, the thirteen or fourteen different hosta varieties growing there create an almost tropical vibe and give the garden exactly the kind of “cottage garden meets zen paradise” look I’d envisioned back when I first contemplated its design. Here in hardiness zone 5B/6A, my hostas shoulder the burden of keeping the whole garden green and beautiful. They literally do all the work. And they demand almost nothing from me – they’re totally no-fuss perennials. In my book, hostas are true garden heroes.
Excuse me. Superheroes.
So how exactly do hostas manage to pull all this off? What makes them so successful at the task of anchoring a garden’s design while asking so little in return of the gardener? What are hostas really all about? And how can you use them to your best advantage – and theirs, as well – to green up your garden?
Today, I’m going to give you a little hosta background – some history and some science. And I’m going to lay some dos and don’ts on you for using them in your own garden (brought directly to you, as always, courtesy of the myriad mistakes I’ve made, and some of the happy accidents and inadvertent triumphs I’ve experienced, in my garden).
So here you go. Here’s what you need to know in order to green up your garden with hostas.
Hosta Character: What They're All About and Why They're So Good at What They Do
Classification. Hostas, also known as plantain lilies, are a genus of super-hardy, herbaceous perennial plants belonging to the Asparagaceae family. The genus, Hosta, is made up of as many as 45 different species. Since all of these species have the same chromosome number, hybridization within the Hosta genus is possible. Among the approximately 45 hosta species, hybridization has resulted in over 6,000 different registered hosta varieties to date, and possibly over 6,000 more which remained unregistered. With over 12,000 existing hosta varieties, it’s pretty safe to say that there’s a hosta out there for everyone.
History. Hostas are native to northeast Asia, and, according to Wikipedia: “The genus was named by Austrian botanist Leopold Trattinnick in 1812, in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host.” Wikipedia further states that “…most of the species that provide the modern plants were introduced from Japan to Europe by Philipp Franz von Siebold in the mid-19th century…” There is some evidence that hostas may have made their way to North America and the United States even earlier. Check out this article about Thomas Hogg and the first hostas in North America. Since the 1800s, Hostas have steadily increased in worldwide popularity. In the United States, hostas are among the most popular ornamental perennials on the market.
Garden tough guys. Hostas, as mentioned, are incredibly hardy herbaceous perennials. They can be grown in USDA hardiness zones 3-9, so they clearly tolerate a wide range of temperatures. From nearly arctic-level cold to subtropical heat, hostas can handle it. They can also take a beating. I’ve had hostas chewed to the ground by deer, ravaged by voles, chipmunks, and slugs, and uprooted by minks and raccoons. And guess what, they came back bigger and stronger then ever the following year. I’ve planted them at the furthest and coldest reaches of the fall, with frost on the ground and snow in the air, when they were little more than clumps of roots (I don’t recommend this, but hey, it happens) and they faithfully emerged in spring. I’ve had hostas summering and overwintering in pots outdoors for three years (yes, I feel incredibly guilty about this), and they’ve come back healthier than ever each spring. Hostas are as tough as nails. (Click here to read about how I successfully overwinter hostas, and other less resilient potted perennials, outdoors.)
Hostas are also incredibly long lived. It’s common for many varieties to live for over 30, 40, 50, even 100 years. Their temperature hardiness and mythic reslience assure hostas of incredibly long lives.
Hosta nuts and bolts. If you want to green up your garden with hostas, it’s helpful to know a few things… Here’s a quick rundown of hosta anatomy and biology, and basic growing requirements (they’re REALLY basic) expressed in the simplest of terms. (C’mon, it’s me. Simple is the best I can do.) It’ll explain the secret of the hosta’s legendary toughness and should give you a pretty good idea of how hostas can so easily assume the role of non-fussy garden design star and all around garden greener-upper.
- The “root” of hosta badassness. You got it – it’s all about the roots. The hosta’s roots are what make it so incredibly resilient. Hostas roots are thick, clumping, and, depending on the species, either rhizomatous or stoloniferous. And they have the almost magical quality of being able to regenerate from root sections only. Absolutely true. I’ve propagated a number of hostas by breaking a main plant’s roots into sections which had absolutely no crown. After being planted, these crownless root sections grew into new plants.* What I’m getting at here is this: you can beat the hell out of a hosta (or voles or deer or whatever can do it for you) and it’s not going to die. Those insanely tough roots will hang in there and bring the plant around. I’ve seen it too many times in my own garden to disavow this fact. (*Note: My division of hosta plants into crownless root sections was unintentional. I DO NOT advocate the use of this methodology for propagating hosta plants. If you’re going to divide hostas, split them through the crown so that each division has the benefit of at least a portion of the crown. It’s much easier for the plant to send up new shoots from an existing crown section.)
- The garden green-up – that insane hosta foliage. This is what hosta beauty is mostly about (although, as you’ll read shortly, they definitely hold their own in the flower department, as well). The hosta’s foliage is what allows it to green up your garden so effectively. And beautifully. In terms of form and size, individual hosta leaves are either lance-shaped (lanceolate) or egg-shaped (ovate), and, on some giant varieties, can span over 18″ in width. Some hosta leaves curl upward at the edges, creating a “cupped” effect. Some hosta varieties have leaves which are leathery and thick, while some have thinner, more delicate foliage. In terms of color, hosta foliage delivers green to the garden in an amazingly broad spectrum. From greens so dark that they appear blue, to creamy light greens which can almost be mistaken for white, and every possible shade in between, the verdant vibe which hostas create is undeniable. But, as every ornamental garden enthusiast knows, solid green-colored leaves aren’t the only trick in the hosta’s book. Add the incredible range of variegation to the hosta’s impressive foliar arsenal and realize the full implications of this amazing plant genus’ visual WOW power. There are green with white or yellow margins, and white or yellow with green margins. And those margins come in every conceivable width and variation. Can you imagine these comparatively low-growing, leafy masses – in virtually every shade (and combination of shades) along the color green’s spectrum – winding their way through your garden, complementing taller plants and uniting your garden’s diversity through an emerald-hued commonality? Catch the hosta’s green color wave. Its effect on your garden will be mindblowing.
- Flowers, too? Seriously? Oh yeah. And are they ever beautiful. White to pale purple (depending on the variety) pendulous tepals appear on long graceful scapes and compliment the hosta’s leaf show with glorious contrast. These ethereal beauties practically glow as they hover and nod above the richness and depth of the green leaves below them. But not only are hosta blooms typically relegated to second class status when compared to the storied foliage, some gardeners (and I know a few, personally) go so far as to remove their hostas’ scapes before the flowers have a chance to bloom so as not to distract from the plants’ green finery. But not in my garden. Here, all of my hostas flower in a visual symphony. I never take those blooms for granted. And more importantly, every single one of my hosta blooms attracts pollinators. I’ve personally witnessed bees, butterflies, and even the occasional hummingbird visit my hostas’ blooms. Those flowers are beautiful and beneficial.
- Soil requirements. Here on The Renaissance Garden Guy, I wrote last year about late fall hosta planting and discussed the kind of soil in which hostas are most happy. They’re not too picky. Soil that ranges from slightly acidic to slightly alkaline suits them just fine. The soil in my garden tends to be slightly acidic. Probably on average between 6.5 and 7.0 on the pH scale. But many of my hostas grow next to poured concrete footings and mortared limestone retaining walls where the soil pH can range from 7.0 to 7.5 (due to the presence of lime in the concrete, stone, and mortar). In all cases, my hostas thrive beautifully. Slightly acidic, neutral, or slightly alkaline; it makes no difference to my hostas. Well-drained soil is pretty important. Letting the hosta’s super-tough root system get rotten and soggy in soupy, non-draining mud is like slipping Superman a kryptonite Mickey. That’ll kill ’em.
- Water needs. Hostas are drought tolerant. No need to water them any more deeply than anything else you’ve got growing in your garden. Again, don’t drown them.
- Fertilizing. When I first bed any plant in my garden, it goes into a huge hole filled with a potting mix which is very slightly acidic and which contains trace percentages of slow-release N-P-K. But most of my hostas have been in the ground for over three summers, and the initial dose of fertilizer has obviously long worn off. I do not go out of my way to specifically fertilize my hostas. But since so many of them are located in planting features which do get fertilized, they’ll get a shot of Espoma Plant-tone right along with everything else. The hostas seem to like it, because they’re huge and healthy as hell.
- Pruning/deadheading. When the blooms fade and start to drop, cut the scape down as low as you can without cutting into the foliage or crown. The plant won’t re-bloom, but you’ll at least have the soon-to-be dead and brown scape out of the picture. In later fall, cut all the dead foliage to the ground before you end up with a soggy rotten mess (which could harbor disease and parasites, and pose potential uprooting problems).
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Designing with Hostas: The Greening up of Your Garden
What hostas accomplish so beautifully in a garden’s design is nothing short of miraculous. In a nutshell, they create a continuity of green color and textured, leafy form which ties various features throughout the entire garden together and adds dimension and depth to the garden’s design. Hostas green up your entire garden. Plain and simple. They’ve certainly done so in mine.
In order to put hostas to their highest and best use in your garden and within the framework of its ultimate design, there are definitely a few major items you’ll want to take into account, and some general rules of thumb to follow.
Garden perimeter and planting bed/garden structure/walking path borders. The perfect way to green up your garden with hostas is to incorporate them in the garden’s perimeter planting features, or to use them as borders for specific planting beds and hardscape structures. I use them to amazing effect in my garden in these particular applications. The “verdant lushness continuum” is remarkable, and it truly establishes the garden’s character.
- Hostas in the garden’s perimeter planting features. All of my garden’s perimeter planting features are heavily populated with hostas. I use them in these perimeter plantings in combination with other plants – and each other – as front borders, or interspersed in front and middle borders. In sunnier perimeter planting features, I tend to use them solely as a front border presence. In shadier perimeter features, I’ll use them in more extensive fashion in front and mid borders. But in all perimeter planting cases in my garden, my hostas are always grown with other types of plants within each feature. It’s never all hostas in these cases. Alot of hostas, but never all hostas.
- Hostas as borders for planting features (non-perimeter), hardscape structures, and walking paths. Use hostas exclusively, or with other plants making intermittent or alternating punctuations, as front or outermost/encircling borders for large planting beds or hardscape structures such as decks and patios. Use them in similar fashion to line or border walking paths.
Hostas and water features. Hostas are the perfect complement to a garden water feature. In my garden, hostas partially border my existing frog pond to create a languid, tropical effect. Subscribers and regular readers of The Renaissance Garden Guy who are familiar with my garden design plans (my garden is currently a work in progress), know that a much bigger pond, and a multi-tiered limestone waterfall are on the way. The hosta plant’s low-ish yet robust leafy green presence will serve as the perfect limning factor for the pond, and will compliment and contrast the stony summit and descent of the waterfall. Hostas and water features go together like soup and sandwich. A perfect pairing.
Sun or shade: Which hosta goes where? This is a loaded question. Typically, hostas are considered shade loving plants and are generally utilized as shade garden staples. But some hostas can actually be fairly sun tolerant. For example, back when I first planned my garden’s design and started sticking plants in the ground, I was fairly ignorant of hosta sunlight preferences. So I ended up planting some ‘Bedazzled’ small hostas and ‘Mini Skirt’ miniature hostas in full sun (more than 6 hours of daily direct sunlight) locations. Remarkably, these hostas performed beautifully. Their first few summers were rainy, and they benefitted from the overcast and wet conditions. But the current summer has been consistently hot, sunny, and extremely arid. For the first time since being planted (as elle paper bareroots and 2″ potted tiny specimens), some of these variegated plants (green leaves with yellow margins) actually sustained minor leaf scorch and fading. But most did well in this sunny location. In this case, my ignorance did not leave me hamstrung. I got lucky. These particular varieties were fairly sunlight friendly. And some shade-like conditions also arose courtesy of some nearby larger plants which shared this particular planting feature with these tough little hostas. I definitely had dumb luck on my side in this particular case. Two other examples of hostas in my garden not only surviving, but thriving in mostly sunny/full sun locations involves ‘Morningstar’ and ‘Guacamole’ varieties. The former possesses variegated leaves with deep green margins and yellow-green centers, and the latter has thick, textured, vivid green leaves. These have performed beautifully in their sunny locations year after year. I got lucky here, too. I planted them in some pretty sunny spots without studying their respective light needs. They turned out to be substantially sun-tolerant. Dumb luck strikes again.
In my garden’s shadiest locations, dark leaved (dark green, blue. blue/green) varieties have thrived alongside variegated, lighter leafed varieties, including a number of individuals of the aforementioned ‘Bedazzled’ variety. But even in these shadiest areas of my garden, the plants still receive some sun exposure. Although all hostas do well in shady locations, they still require at least some sunlight.
There are some things to consider when using sun exposure as a criterion for planning your hosta’s location.
- Know which hostas are better at tolerating sun, and which require more shade. If you truly want to green up your garden with hostas, it won’t do to have your plants fade, burn, and brown in the sun. As a rule of thumb, hostas with lighter green, yellow, or yellow/green leaves (including variegated leaves in these combinations) tend to tolerate more sun than those with dark green or blue/green “waxy” leaves. With these deeper colored leaves, the “blue” appearance is caused by a glaucous waxy coating which contributes to the “blue” color effect. Intense sunlight can burn this coating off and fade and damage the true green-pigmented leaf surface beneath. Some sources also claim that thicker-leafed hosta varieties stand up to full sunlight better than those with thinner leaves. Please bear in mind that this is just a rule of thumb. I’ve read about, and seen firsthand (in my own garden and in those of other gardeners), all sorts examples which defy this particular wisdom. The best advice I can give you is that you should plant your hostas according to the grower’s or nursery’s written suggestions. You can also experiment. If your plant isn’t doing well in the spot you give it, transplant it to a more hospitable location. The last thing you want to do is brown up your garden with hostas.
- Is a sunny location really a sunny location? Let’s say there’s a patch of ground in your garden that is bathed in bright, unobscured sunlight for most of the day. By gardening standards, that’s considered full sun. But on this patch of ground are growing some sizable monarda, for example, or maybe hardy hibiscus. And let’s say that these plants are just big enough to cast some shadow in their immediate vicinities. The shadowed ground immediately below and around their foliage is now considered to be in dappled, or diffuse, sunlight. So even though the patch of ground with the tall-ish monarda or hibiscus growing in it is located in full sun, the ground under and adjacent to them is now in dappled sunlight due to the presence of their shadows. So if you stick your hostas in this particular ground, they’ll actually be growing in – you guessed it – dappled sunlight. Lots and lots of different hostas can handle dappled sunlight. In this case, though they’re technically planted in a full sun location, the hostas are actually growing in dappled sun. In this way, the leafy volume of hostas can green up your garden (as only hostas truly can) in an ostensibly full sun location. Another case when a sunny location isn’t necessarily a full sun location, per se, concerns the condition of morning sun versus afternoon sun. Morning sun is not nearly as intense as afternoon sun. Any hosta plant can tolerate, for example, three hours of morning sun more easily than three hours of the more intense afternoon sun. Keep the time of day, and the corresponding sunlight intensity in mind when landing the right locations for your hostas.
The takeaway here is that you can definitely green up your garden – even in its sunniest locations – with hostas, and you can let them work their enriching, unifying magic by 1) paying careful attention to each variety’s sunlight requirements, and 2) understanding the nature of the sun exposure in each of your intended hosta planting locations and selecting your plants accordingly. Can’t you just imagine them in your garden with the sun bathing their copious dew-bejeweled plumage in quiet morning light? Or rustling in deep, broad-leafed, verdant conversation with one another in your garden’s shadier sections? Can’t you just picture how those amazing hosta plants can green up your garden?
(What the hell? Now I feel like trotting out to the nursery and buying a whole mess of hostas. I probably will. I think I just talked myself into it. Shit.)
For more information about the different levels of sunlight as they pertain to gardening, please click here to read an excellent article on the subject by MasterClass.
Good planting companions for hostas. You know that you can definitely green up your garden with hostas, but what impact will your (and your hostas’) efforts specifically have on the other plants you’ve already got growing there? Can the hardworking hosta’s emerald effect really make your garden’s other citizens look even better than they already do? Can hostas work with your other plants to make your garden look even more amazing than it does now? You betcha. That’s the whole point of this article. Their consistent form and green color journey among and across their individual varieties makes them the perfect accent and complement to your garden’s other types of plants (including trees and bushes), ultimately unifying and connecting all of them visually throughout the entire garden space. You can almost think of your hosta plantings as a picture frame, girding and accentuating the glorious work of art created by you and the other plants growing in your garden. Or think of your hostas collectively as a sea-green, sinuous chain composed of “same-but-different” leafy individual links, gently yet implacably winding its way among your garden’s planting features and forever joining them to one another in an all-inclusive embrace. And boy, do hostas ever play nicely with other plant types. They partner seamlessly with larger, taller plants in both sunny and shady locations, and they look beautiful with vines growing behind them. In front borders, similarly sized, or smaller plants look great interspersed among them. They also make terrific supplementary plantings for some ephemeral or semi-ephemeral perennials. And of course, in any situation, you can combine a number of hosta varieties and watch how well they work with each other.
- Taller plants and vines. In my garden, hostas mix and mingle with a number of taller plants. In my perimeter planting features, hostas are planted in front borders with larger plants and vines as mid and back border companions. Hydrangeas, monarda, clethra, sambucus, pieris, Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus), privet, holly, peonies, toad lilies, buddleia, astilbe, azalea, and honeysuckle, clematis, and climbing hydrangea vines grow among and behind my hostas in those perimeter beds. The hostas provide the unifying green matrix which pulls this multiformed and multicolored population into a cohesive unit. In my interior planting features, the lower growing hostas form their front, encircling borders. In these beds, within the borders of encircling hostas, grow taller inhabitants such as rhododendron, phlox, corydalis, echinacea, and many, many more. The hostas of the perimeter planting features work with the hostas encircling the interior beds to, once again, create a consistency and continuity of form and green color that allows my garden’s many diverse elements to beautifully coalesce.
- In front borders with other similarly sized, or shorter plants. You can green up the front borders of your garden with hostas by interspersing or alternating other same-sized (or smaller) plant types among and with them. Again, the hostas provide that cohesive and unifying green factor that pulls other shorter plants (often with colorful blooms and/or foliage) into the garden’s design continuum. In my garden’s front borders, I’ll punctuate winding hosta sentences with low growers like huechera (their robust and often reddish, caramel, or bright green apple colored leaves offer a dynamite contrast to the hostas’ dense green foliage), campanula, and long-blooming armeria. By adding these little companions to the hosta color wave, I’m able to create depth and interest to my garden’s various front borders, while maintaining the green, unifying thread established by the hostas. Of special note is one particular front border area where a large hosta complements two sizable hellebores. At the foot of my garden’s large “blue and white hill” feature, the very shadiest section contains a pair of large ‘Molly’s White’ helleborus and a single hosta ‘Elegans.’ The pairing of each plant’s respective fabulous foilage is magical. It’s a green, leafy party in the shade.
- Supplement ephemerals with hostas. Hostas work wonders when planted in close proximity to ephemeral or semi-ephemeral perennials. In my garden, I’ve got an ‘Abiqua Drinking Gourd’ hosta planted immediately adjacent to a naturalized patch of Virginia bluebells, which die back in June, and old fashioned white bleeding hearts (which die back before the hostas do). In this case, when the ephemerals are gone, the hosta serves as a visual placeholder, maintaining vital green growth in what would otherwise be barren areas in the garden.
- Hostas planted with hostas. Want to green up your garden with hostas? Plant them with other hostas. Works every time. Hostas can be planted en masse in mid and front borders to increase the green richness of a planting feature. I use a number of different planting schemes when I combine different sized varieties in a particular planting feature. The only design transgression would be planting larger varieties in front of smaller ones, thereby hiding the smaller plants from view. And remember, even though I do grow hostas together with other hostas in many of my planting features, they always share those features with other types of plants. None of my planting features is ever exclusively hostas. Hosta-only planting features are not only accptable in my book, they’re also beautiful. I just don’t have any hosta-exclusive planting features currently in my garden. Below are some hosta-on-hosta combinations I use in my planting features.
You've Made it to the End: The Hosta Garden Green-up is Complete!
Ok gang, now you know how to green up your garden with hostas. At least you know everything I know about the subject. Are hostas the unifying, integrating, coalescing green agents that tie everything together like a lush green thread in an otherwise beautifully colorful yet diffuse garden environment? Check. Do they beautify and simultaneously weave together visually all of the individual planting features in a given garden? Check. Do they resonate in planting feature front and mid borders? Check. Do they play nice with other plants and each other? Check. Do they beautify a garden in shade and sun? Check. Are they tough as hell? Check. Are they easy to care for? Check. As far as driving a garden’s design and ensuring its beauty are concerned, do hostas really do all of the work? If we’re talking about my garden, you bet your ass they do. In my book, they’re garden superheroes. I would never plan an ornamental garden without them.
That’s it folks. I got nothin’ left. As always, I thank you for reading and for sticking around. I hope you’ve enjoyed the article.
Cheers, and Happy Gardening!
For additional hosta information and resources, please visit the American Hosta Society website, or check out Wikipedia’s info packed hosta entry and an excellent article from The Spruce about hosta growing and care.
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Amazing article, such great information!!!
Beautiful images, heavenly looking garden🌸
Thank you so much, Roxxy! I’m glad you got a chance to check it out. I am thrilled and honored that you appreciate the look of my garden. I’ve been working very diligently on its design. When an artist and art lover such as yourself likes the look of what I’m trying to accomplish there, it makes me believe I’m on the right track. Again, I’m honored, Roxxy. Thank you once more!
Great article about one of my favorite plants! Lots of great information, hostas are great for all of us who do not have a green thumb. If you have never grown them you must give them a try!
Thank you, Kevin – glad you enjoyed the article. I totally agree with you. Hostas are completely forgiving. And they’re so tough and so beautiful. They really do make it look easy. Thanks again, Kevin!
I love the pictures, such beautiful plants. Thank you for all the great information on the wonderful hosta!
I’m so glad you liked the article and the photos. I’m not much of a photographer, which just goes to show you how beautiful hostas really are. Even my lousy photography can’t compromise their beauty! They really are amazing plants. Thanks once again!