Frances Williams Hosta
Hosta sieboldiana ‘Frances Williams’ · a gold-edged blue hosta
A shade garden classic for generations: huge, heavily puckered blue-green leaves with wide golden edges, thick enough to shrug off most slug damage. Its margins can scorch in sun, so give it real shade and steady moisture, and protect it from deer, who find hostas delicious.
- Mature size
- 2 × 4 ft
- 0.6 × 1.2 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jun–Jul
Frances Williams Hosta at its mature size
A mature Frances Williams Hosta grows to about 2 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: Chicago Botanic Garden, Walters Gardens.
Through the year
What Frances Williams 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–May, Aug–Oct
The leaf mound, no flower stalks.
In flower · Jun–Jul
The same leaf mound with a few stalks of white bell flowers on stalks just above the leaves.
Growing Frances Williams 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
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Frances Williams 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 Frances Williams Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
Gold Standard Hosta
Guacamole HostaFrances Williams Hosta
Liberty HostaAll drawn to the same scale.