Halcyon Hosta
Hosta ‘Halcyon’ · a blue hosta
One of the best blue hostas: frosty blue-green, pointed leaves that keep their colour longer than most blues, on a tidy mound with lilac-blue flowers in late summer. Strong sun scorches the leaves, so give it shade and steady moisture, and protect it from deer, who enjoy the foliage.
- 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 to moist
- Blooms
- Jul–Aug
Halcyon Hosta at its mature size
A mature Halcyon 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: NC State Extension, Walters Gardens, Lurie Garden.
Through the year
What Halcyon 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 lilac-blue bell flowers on stalks just above the leaves.
Growing Halcyon 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 Halcyon 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 Halcyon Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
Wide Brim HostaHalcyon Hosta
August Moon Hosta
Fire and Ice HostaAll drawn to the same scale.