Blue Mouse Ears Hosta
Hosta ‘Blue Mouse Ears’ · a blue hosta with round, thick leaves
A miniature hosta with thick, rounded blue-green leaves that curl like mouse ears into a neat, even mound, made for rock gardens, pots and the front of a shady bed. Give it shade and steady moisture, and protect it from deer and rabbits, who relish hostas.
- Mature size
- 8 in × 1 ft
- 0.2 × 0.3 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Jul
Blue Mouse Ears Hosta at its mature size
A mature Blue Mouse Ears Hosta grows to about 8 in tall and 1 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, NC State Extension.
Through the year
What Blue Mouse Ears 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 bell flowers on stalks just above the leaves.
Growing Blue Mouse Ears Hosta
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, the Midwest, the Plains and Mountain West, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- 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 Mouse Ears Hosta, that’s about 1 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 Mouse Ears Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
Curly Fries HostaBlue Mouse Ears Hosta
Golden Tiara Hosta
Francee HostaAll drawn to the same scale.