(Crusader Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance of shade. This one, ‘Crusader’ is a medium-sized variegated hosta that forms neat clumps. Its heart-shaped leaves have good substance and are puckered and ribbed. They are slightly blue-green in color accented with white to chartreuse, irregularly-shaped margins. Lavender funnel-shaped flowers appear on tall stems held above the foliage in late summer.

Like most hostas, ‘Crusader’ grows best in full...

(Decorata Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness, and tolerance for shade. This one, ‘Decorata’ is an antique, brought to the United States from Japan around 1875. It is a small to medium-sized hosta that spreads slowly via stolons (aboveground lateral stems) to form colonies. The leaves are elliptical to oval with blunt tips. They are lightly twisted, wavy and corrugated. The leaves are dark green and outline by a white margin. Purple, fertile bell-shaped...

(Devon Green Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance for shade. The striking ‘Devon Green’ is a medium-sized hosta that forms upright clumps of overlapping lance-shaped leaves that are glossy, cupped, ribbed, thick and an unusually dark green. Lavender striped tubular flowers appear on tall stems held above the foliage in late summer.

Like most hostas, ‘Devon Green’ grows best in full to partial shade and tolerates a wide range of well-drained soils....

(Dew Drop Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their leaves, mounding habit, toughness, and tolerance of shade. This one, ‘Devon Green,’ is a tiny hosta that forms neat tufts of outsized, thick, heart-shaped dark green leaves accented by a thin white margin. Lavender bell-shaped flowers appear on stems held above the foliage in midsummer. This hosta, though small, occasionally re-blooms.

Like most hostas, ‘Dew Drop’ hosta grows best in full to partial shade and tolerates a wide range of well-drained...

(Diamond Tiara Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance for shade. The pretty, variegated ‘Diamond Tiara’ is a small to medium-sized hosta that forms neat clumps of oval to heart-shaped wavy leaves that are medium green accented with a wide white margin. Dark lavender bell-shaped flowers appear on stems held above the foliage in midsummer.

Like most hostas, ‘Diamond Tiara’ grows best in full to partial shade and tolerates a wide range of well-drained soils....

(Apple, Flowering Crabapple, Sugar Tyme Crabapple)

A small tree with upright branches and an oval crown, Sugar Tyme crabapple covers itself with white flowers in spring and red fruits in fall. This hybrid, disease-resistant deciduous tree has oval, green leaves that emerge after the flowers. In mid-spring light pink flower buds arise all along the bare branches and open to fragrant white flowers that attract bees and give way to a modest crop of acorn-sized apples that mature to red by early autumn and linger into winter. In fall, the leaves turn...

(Chandelier Plant)

The trailing stems and brilliant flowers of this Madagascar native look beautiful spilling from a container or wall. A succulent perennial, it has fleshy, narrowly spoon-shaped leaves paired along wiry red-tinged stems. Small clusters of bright red bell-shaped flowers with protruding yellow anthers dangle from the stem tips in spring. Flower buds sometimes develop into plantlets, which drop from the stems and root.

For best growth provide bright light and average well-drained soil. Give plants...

(Chandelier Plant)

The trailing stems and brilliant flowers of this Madagascar native look beautiful spilling from a container or wall. A succulent perennial, it has fleshy, narrowly spoon-shaped leaves paired along wiry red-tinged stems. Small clusters of bright red bell-shaped flowers with protruding yellow anthers dangle from the stem tips in spring. Flower buds sometimes develop into plantlets, which drop from the stems and root.

For best growth provide bright light and average well-drained soil. Give plants...

(Elata Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance of shade. Bold ‘Elata’ is a vigorous, very large hosta that forms impressive, outspread clumps. Its exceptionally large sea-green, oval leaves taper to a point and have deeply impressed ribbing. Lavender funnel to bell-shaped flowers appear in clusters on tall stems held above the foliage in midsummer.

Like most hostas ‘Elata’ grows best in full to partial shade and tolerates a wide range...

(Electrum Stater Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are shade plants, right? Yes, but the gold-green ‘Electrum Stater’ and other hostas with yellow leaves need a bit of sun to develop their brightest leaf color. Like most hostas, ‘Electrum Stater’ is grown for its attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance for shade. Its gold centered leaves have irregular creamy-white margins. They are heart-shaped, thick, wavy and corrugated. The pale-lavender flowers are tubular and appear on tall leafless stems held above the foliage in...