What's that chartreuse Goliath which lives in the garden and sports lavender flowers this time of year? (Hint: slugs hate it.) It has to be hosta Sum and Substance. This behemoth of the shady scene ...

What: Hosta “Krossa Regal” is a stately large hosta with a unique and distinctive upright mounding form. The rigid blue leaves have a wonderful architectural quality that makes it easy to add to the ...

Anyone who has visited my garden knows you have to hunt to find a hosta. So when the Minnesota Hosta Society asked to tour my garden June 30, my puzzled response was, “Whatever for?” “We don’t live in ...

Hostas are great plants for shady locations. These long-lived, amazingly hardy (-35 degrees) natives of Japan and China come in a mind-boggling array of sizes, shapes, and colors; everything from tiny ...

One of the many things I love about spring is the reemergence of my favorite perennials. It is so satisfying to see them come back fresh, blemish free and often twice the size of the previous year.

Cutting edge hostas mix with old-fashioned hospitality at Pondside Gardens, just outside Kiel, where owners Dennis and Diane Lenz still do things the old-fashioned way. Serving each customer one at a ...

An upright, vase-shaped hosta from the “Shadowland” series, it reaches 30 inches tall and 36 inches wide. Broad, puckered leaves transition from chartreuse-yellow in spring to lighter gold in summer.

Like every gardener, that's been my reaction to the girth of hostas that began beefing up in March and now are practically the size of bushel baskets. The only hosta in my garden that is just ...

I have really enjoyed getting to know my garden after sunset this summer. Experiencing your beloved plants in the dark of night is a wholly different experience, a world of ghostly glows and heavenly ...

What is it about hostas that so many gardeners love? For me it’s their ability to look more striking with every passing year with barely any work. You can plant them in poor soil, forget to water them ...