Hosta
Hosta sieboldiana
A shade staple grown for its foliage: big, waxy, blue-green leaves in a bold dome, with stalks of white flowers rising above them in early summer. It's at home under trees, in beds and borders, and once established it copes with some dry shade. Deer, rabbits and slugs love it, so protect it where they roam.
- Mature size
- 2.5 × 3 ft
- 0.7 × 0.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jun–Jul
Hosta at its mature size
A mature Hosta grows 24 to 30 inches tall and 30 to 36 inches 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.
Through the year
What 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
Mound of huge puckered blue-gray heart-shaped leaves.
In flower · Jul
The same leaf mound with a few sturdy upright stalks just above the leaves, each with near-white, faintly lavender bell flowers.
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Growing 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
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For 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 Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
Frances Williams Hosta
Liberty Hosta
Hosta
Sagae HostaAll drawn to the same scale.