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Flower |
Foliage |
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Plant Name Click to Exit to Comparison Page or or link to |
Hosta sieboldiana After Austrian physician Nicholas Tomas Host. |
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Common Name |
Plantain Lily |
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Soil |
Clay, Sand |
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Sun Aspect |
Part Shade or Full Shade |
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Soil Moisture |
Moist. |
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Plant Type |
Herbaceous Perennial |
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Height x Spread in feet |
3 x 4 |
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Foliage |
Grey-Green to Blue |
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Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit |
Lilac-Grey in July |
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Comment |
Clump-forming form. Hostas will not tolerate drought and should be mulched annually in spring to conserve moisture. Can use as groundcover under deep-rooted, deciduous trees, in a border, or near water. Hostas are very attractive to slugs and snails - put a shell-shaped birdbath close by, fill with water daily and allow the birds to eat them! Pruning Group 14. Other cultivars are available from Coblands Nurseries Ltd and Palmstead Nurseries Ltd. Bowden Hostas in Devon sell Hostas, with a one acre garden containing a National Collection of Hostas of over 500 varieties. The British Hosta and Hemerocallis Society can provide more information about National Collections and cultivation. |
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Companions |
Ferns, Bulbs, Astilbe, Dicentra, Hemerocallis, Iris, Ornamental Grasses, Helleborus, Hakonechloa, Luzula, Geranium, Polygonatum and Primula. Pests - big-footed gardeners. Good alone as a container plant. Put copper band round pot (or rain-water guttering round a raised bed - of 6 inch high treated timber with 6 inches of soil above weed-proof geotextile like Plantex - with water in the gutter; slugs not known to be good swimmers) to deter slugs and feed on regular basis with water-soluble fertiliser from March to September. |
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