Fire and Ice Hosta
Hosta ‘Fire and Ice’ · a white-centered hosta
Bright white leaf centres edged in dark green light up shade like few hostas can; it's the reverse of the classic Patriot, striking in pots, as a specimen or massed. Give it part to full shade and steady moisture, and fence or net it where deer and rabbits roam.
- Mature size
- 1.5 × 2.5 ft
- 0.5 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jul
Fire and Ice Hosta at its mature size
A mature Fire and Ice Hosta grows to about 1.5 ft tall and 2.5 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 Fire and Ice 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 lavender bell flowers on stalks just above the leaves.
Growing Fire and Ice 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 Fire and Ice Hosta, that’s about 2.5 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 Fire and Ice Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
Fire and Ice Hosta
August Moon Hosta
Gold Standard Hosta
Guacamole HostaAll drawn to the same scale.