Wide Brim Hosta
Hosta ‘Wide Brim’ · a gold-edged hosta
Dark green leaves with wide, irregular margins of buttery yellow to cream brighten a shady border on a neat, mounded plant, with pale lavender flowers in summer. It copes with a good deal of sun as long as the soil stays moist; protect it from deer and rabbits.
- Mature size
- 1.5 × 2.5 ft
- 0.4 × 0.8 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 3a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Jul–Aug
Wide Brim Hosta at its mature size
A mature Wide Brim 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 Wide Brim 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 pale lavender bell flowers on stalks just above the leaves.
Growing Wide Brim 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 Wide Brim 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 Wide Brim Hosta in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other hostas
June Hosta
Patriot HostaWide Brim Hosta
Halcyon HostaAll drawn to the same scale.