For a large hosta with variegated foliage, choose ‘Dream Weaver.’ Although not as large as some of the truly giant varieties, ...

He's been growing and selling them for 20 years, and has even propagated and named 10 new varieties of the plants. Tennessee baseball signee Kruz Schoolcraft drafted No. 25 by the San Diego Padres ...

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 ...

) 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 ...