Blue Angel Hosta
Hosta ‘Blue Angel’ · a blue hosta with wavy, puckered leaves
One of the largest blue hostas: huge, heart-shaped, thick blue-green leaves that cascade into a broad mound, with tall stalks of pale lavender flowers in midsummer. Its blue is best in light shade with only morning sun; protect it from deer and rabbits.
- Mature size
- 3 × 4 ft
- 0.9 × 1.2 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jul
Blue Angel Hosta at its mature size
A mature Blue Angel Hosta grows to about 3 ft tall and 4 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, Lurie Garden.
Through the year
What Blue Angel 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, Aug–Oct
The leaf mound, no flower stalks.
In flower · Jul
The same leaf mound with a few stalks of pale lavender-white bell flowers on tall stalks well above the leaves.
Growing Blue Angel 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 Blue Angel Hosta, that’s about 4 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 Blue Angel Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
Sagae HostaBlue Angel Hosta
Krossa Regal Hosta
Sum and Substance HostaAll drawn to the same scale.