‘Empress Wu’ is one of, if not the largest of all hosta varieties. It easily grows taller than four feet (1.2 m) and wider than four to five feet (1.2 to 1.5 m). The leaves are big, ...

Brian White knows hostas. He's been growing and selling them for 20 years, and has even propagated and named 10 new varieties of the plants.

Every garden needs some reliable plants that will thrive year after year, with minimal attention. These species are so hardy ...

It took me a long time to appreciate hostas. When I was a young gardener, I wanted bright flowers with lots of pizazz. Roses. Daffodils. Peonies. But over time I have come to appreciate the subtle ...

Neff's hosta garden, which includes about 125 varieties shaded by large shade trees, will be featured in this year's WesterFlora garden tour for the first time. "My gardening style is anything but ...

Hosta varieties are available with foliage in various shades of greens, yellows, blue and even white (White Feather). Although touted as shade lovers, sunlight requirements vary widely among the ...

) has registered about 5,000 hosta varieties, although hybridizer Mark Zilis, author of two books on these plants, estimates there may be as many as 8,000 identified cultivars. We’ve come a long ...

Bob Clark didn't know what a hosta was until his wife brought two of the plants home. Thirty years later, the Clio resident grows, cross-pollinates and sells thousands of hosta varieties to ...

The usual hosta varieties prefer cold winters that induce dormancy and warm summers of moderate length. Many hostas have a chilling requirement, that is, hours below 43 degrees F.

After four years of attempting to trace hosta ancestry through DNA fingerprinting, Dave Koetje has come to a conclusion: “Hostas are weird,” he says.Since 2002 Koetje, a Calvin College biology ...