(Carnival Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are mound-forming herbaceous perennials grown their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness, and tolerance for shade. This one, the pretty variegated ‘Carnival,’ is a medium-sized hosta, spreading and mounding in form. Its large, oval or heart-shaped leaves are glossy and deep green. The margins are creamy-yellow, wide and irregularly shaped. Sometimes the leaves are streaked or mottled yellow and green. They are of heavy substance and when mature have a corrugated texture.Lavender bell-shaped...

(Cascades Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are mound-forming herbaceous perennials grown mostly for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance for shade. This pretty variegated hosta, ‘Cascades,’ is notable for the way its leaves face outward and and angle downward, as if showing off their variegation. They are white in the center with light and dark green streaking and the irregularly shaped margins are dark green. The leaves are large, tapering, and lance-shaped. They are also slightly rippled, deeply ribbed...

(Chantilly Lace Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness, and tolerance for shade. This one, the pretty variegated ‘Chantilly Lace,’ is a diminutive hosta that forms a neat mound. The leaves are small and lance-shaped with twisted, pointed tips. They are gray-green with narrow white margins. Copious amounts of large, white, bell-shaped flowers appear on leafless stems held above the foliage in midsummer.

Like most hostas, ‘Chantilly Lace’ grows best in full...

(Cherry Berry Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Cherry Berry hosta is a vividly breathtaking plant. Its beautiful lance shaped leaves are white with dark green margins. Occasionally the dark pigmentation pierces a thick streak into the white center of the leaf. The clump is rather modest in size. In midsummer, short red spikes are covered in deep lavender or purple flowers. Unlike other hostas, this cultivar's flowers are not fragrant. In autumn, the seed pods are red, which is the reason for the cultivar name.

The CHerry Berry hosta is best...

(Climax Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness, and tolerance for shade. This one, the pretty variegated ‘Climax,’ forms a large, vase-shaped, upright mound. The leaves are oval, with pointed tips, and green with wide, irregularly shaped yellow margins. They are also flat, of heavy substance, and corrugated. Pale, lavender tubular to bell-shaped flowers appear on leafless stems held above the foliage in late spring to early summer.

Like most hostas,...

(Color Glory Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas need shade, right? Not always. The yellow-leaved ‘Color Glory’ and other hostas with yellow leaves tend to need some sun to show their most brilliant color. An herbaceous perennial, ‘Color Glory’ forms mounds of yellow to chartreuse leaves that have margins streaked in cream, green and blue-green. The leaves are cupped, broadly oval to heart-shaped, of heavy texture and corrugated like cardboard. White flowers are bell to funnel-shaped and appear on tall, leafless stems above the foliage in...

(Coquette Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Herbaceous perennials, hostas are grown for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance for shade. This one, the pretty variegated ‘Coquette,’ is a small to medium-sized hosta that forms a neat upright mound. Its oval leaves have pointed tips and a ribbed texture. They are green and edged and streaked with white and chartreuse. Lavender bell-shaped flowers appear on leafless stems held above the foliage in midsummer.

Like other hostas, ‘Coquette’ grows best in full to partial...

(Crowned Imperial Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown mostly for their attractive leaves, mounding habit, toughness and tolerance for shade. . This variegated hosta, ‘Crowned Imperial,’ is medium to large, fast-growing, and forms dome-shaped clumps. Its large heart-shaped leaves are deeply puckered. They are gray-green in color accented with narrow, white, irregularly-shaped margins. Lavender funnel-shaped flowers appear on tall stems held above the foliage in mid to late summer.

Like most hostas, ‘Crowned Imperial’...

(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...