August Moon Hosta
Hosta ‘August Moon’ · a gold hosta
Big, puckered leaves in bright gold to chartreuse make a sun-tolerant gold hosta, with pale lavender flowers in summer. More sun means more gold as long as the soil stays moist; protect it from deer and rabbits, who relish hostas.
- Mature size
- 1.5 × 3 ft
- 0.5 × 0.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jul–Aug
August Moon Hosta at its mature size
A mature August Moon Hosta grows to about 1.5 ft tall and 3 ft wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Walters Gardens, Gertens.
Through the year
What August Moon Hosta looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Below ground · Nov–Mar
Dies back to the ground; draw nothing but keep it selectable.
In leaf · Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct
The leaf mound, no flower stalks.
In flower · Jul–Aug
The same leaf mound with a few stalks of pale lavender bell flowers on stalks just above the leaves.
Growing August Moon Hosta
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Specimen and shade garden
- Leaves
- Dies back in winter
- Native to
- Japan, Korea, and China
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For August Moon Hosta, that’s about 3 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See August Moon Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
August Moon Hosta
Fire and Ice Hosta
Gold Standard Hosta
Guacamole HostaAll drawn to the same scale.