Hostas are known for their lush foliage and easy care, but do hostas spread more than you’d like? Learn how to manage hosta growth while avoiding common planting and maintenance mistakes.

Hostas aren't hard to grow, but mistakes like bad watering practices and accidentally triggering pests and resource ...

This herbaceous perennial can tolerate partial, dappled, or even deep shade, and it spreads to make itself an effective ...

Her French country-style garden features 88 varieties of dahlia, she said. Her half-acre property is a certified wildlife habitat with about a dozen birdhouses.

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 ...

That said, it’s almost impossible to kill a hosta, so they survive. Most hostas are hardy to Zone 3 (minus 40 in winter) or Zone 4 (minus 30). So unless you live in the Arctic, you can grow hostas.

So what started with a single hosta plant has now become an abundance. Haupt grows 169 different varieties of hosta. "Now I'm always looking for them," she said.

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 ...

Overwatering plants negatively affects many varieties, just like underwatering. For hostas, if they are planted in shadier locations, the soil will often stay wet longer, leading to overwatering.

Fragrant hosta with its sweet-smelling white flowers has been used to parent many excellent hybrids. We have fragrant hosta growing in our garden next to our patio. This prime location was chosen ...