(Golden Fanfare Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas are herbaceous perennials grown for their attractive leaves, tolerance for shade, toughness, and mounding habit. This one, ‘Golden Fanfare,' is notable for its soft-yellow leaves and glowing presence in a shady spot. It is a medium-sized plant and makes an open clump of leaves that are wide, flat, and heart-shaped. The flower are lavender and funnel shaped. They appear above the leaves in clusters atop leafless stems.

Like most hostas, ‘Golden Fanfare,' grows best in partial shade to full...

(Golden Medallion Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hosta are herbaceous perennials grown for their mounding habit, tolerance for shade, toughness, and attractive leaves. This one, ‘Golden Medallion,’ has glowing, golden-green leaves that take on their brightest color when the plant has a bit of sun. The leaves are waxy, heavily textured, cupped, corrugated and heart-shaped. The flowers are white, bell-to funnel-shaped and appear on tall, leafy stems above the foliage in midsummer. The plants are slow-growing and form meiums-sized clumps.

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(Golden Prayers Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas need shade, right? Not always. This small hosta, ‘Golden Prayers,’ needs a bit of sun to develop its full glowing color. An herbaceous perennial, it is grown for its mounding habit and bright yellow leaves. They are cupped, corrugated, heavily textured and heart-shaped, with wavy edges. The flowers are pale lavender, bell to funnel-shaped and appear on leafless stems held above the foliage in late summer.

Like most hostas, ‘Golden Prayers, grows best in full to partial shade and tolerates...

(Golden Scepter Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas need shade, right? Not always. This one, the yellow-leaved ‘Golden Scepter,’ needs some sun to develop its warmest color. Hostas are grown for their habit, toughness and attractive leaves, like those of 'Golden Scepter' which are a sunny golden yellow, heart-shaped and deeply ribbed. The flowers are lavender, bell-shaped and appear in clusters atop leafless stems held above the foliage in midsummer. The plant is vigorous, small, and forms a spreading mound.

Like most hostas, ‘Golden Scepter’...

(Golden Sunburst Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

leaves, such as ‘Golden Scepter,’ need a bit of sun to develop their warmest glow. Hostas are prized for their habit, toughness, tolerance of shade, and leaves. This one has leaves of an eye-catching yellow-green that are round to heart-shaped, heavily puckered and ribbed. The flowers are pale lavender, bell-shaped, and appear on leafless stems held just above the foliage in late summer. The plants are small to medium-sized and form neat mounds.

Like most hostas, ‘Golden Sunburst’ grows best...

(Golden Tiara Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Golden tiara plantain lily is a clump forming, shade tolerant, herbaceous perennial that is primarily grown for its ornamental foliage. In spring, it produces a neat clump of small, heart-shaped, variegated leaves of green with a yellow margin. In midsummer, upright, sturdy stems of bell-shaped, purple striped flowers appear. This hosta prefers part sun to part shade and fertile, well drained soil. It is widely used in mixed perennial borders and massed as a large groundcover for shade. Most hosta...

(Golden Waffles Plantain Lily, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas need shade, right? Not always. Those with chartreuse or yellow leaves need some sun to develop their brightest color. This one, ‘Golden Waffles,’ has glowing near-yellow leaves that are thick, heart-shaped, and quilted. Like other hostas, it is grown for is mounding habit, toughness and leaves, which emerge chartreuse and turn gold as they mature. The flowers are white and bell-shaped. The appear in a cluster on leafless stems held above the foliage in late summer.

Like most hostas, ‘Golden...

(Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Arguably, there is no better perennial for shade. Hosta is a clump forming herbaceous ornamental grown mostly for its attractive foliage. The genus originates from Asia and is comprised of approximately 40 species and thousands of hybrid cultivars.

Throughout the growing season they present clumps of foliage in various shades of green, blue, blue-gray or gold. Some also have variegated markings of white, cream or gold. Their flowers are variable, but are generally trumpet, funnel or bell-shaped...

(Grand Tiara Plantain, Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Hostas need shade, right? Not always. This one, the yellow-leaved ‘Grand Tiara,’ needs a bit of sun to develop its most glowing color. Hostas are grown for their shade tolerance, habit, toughness, and attractive leaves. The variegated, rounded leaves of 'Golden Sunburst' are green in the center with wide creamy-gold margins. They are also smooth, substantial and ribbed, and grown in a dense, spreading mound. The flowers are bell-shaped, purple striped and profuse, held in clusters on leafless stems...

(Hosta, Plantain Lily)

Arguably, there is no better perennial for shade. Hosta is a clump forming herbaceous ornamental grown mostly for its attractive foliage. The genus originates from Asia and is comprised of approximately 40 species and thousands of hybrid cultivars.

Throughout the growing season they present clumps of foliage in various shades of green, blue, blue-gray or gold. Some also have variegated markings of white, cream or gold. Their flowers are variable, but are generally trumpet, funnel or bell-shaped...