Hardy Northern Grown Perennials For The Discerning Gardener
Hostas perennials and hosta plantsHostas add Color and Texture to Perennial Gardens

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Hostas are hardy garden perennials that add foliage color and texture to your perennial garden. Originally from Japan and China, hostas first appeared in perennial  gardens in the United States in the early 1800's when European gardeners brought their prized hosta plants with them as they immigrated. These hardy herbaceous  perennials typically grow best in partial shade exposures although some varieties of hostas will take dappled sun without burning occurring on the foliage. Hostas are popular with gardeners for the wide range of foliage shapes, colors, sizes, and  textures that they are available in. Hosta plants range from solid foliage colors to wild  variegated color combinations of blue, green, white, and gold. Although not typically regarded as a flowering perennial plant, all hostas bloom in the summer producing showy spikes of  lavender to white, lily-like flowers, which sometimes are fragrant. Despite the delicate appearance of hostas, hosta plants are a very low maintenance perennial garden plant and extremely hardy, most to USDA Zone 3.

Hosta plants are often categorized as shade perennials but most hostas do require some sun in order to produce large, colorful foliage and showy flowers. The ideal hosta exposure in the garden is an exposure with morning sun and afternoon shade. An easy way to remember which hosta variety requires the most shade is just to go by the color of the foliage: blue-leafed hostas require the most shade, hostas with foliage that is gold, yellow, or white can tolerate more sun and fragrant hostas require the most sun approximately 5 to 6  hours per day to produce fragrant blooms. A few examples of sun tolerant hostas are Hosta plantaginea, 'August Moon', 'Fragrant Bouquet', 'Guacamole' and 'Sum and Substance'.

Hostas are easy to grow perennial plants and once established they require little care. When planting hostas in your garden the trick is to start out right with rich, organic soil that has good drainage. If your garden soil is clay then you will need to add soil organic amendments in to the soil prior to planting to correct the soil tilth problem. To grow and thrive, hostas prefer a soil PH that is on the acidic side.

Although hostas are low maintenance garden perennial plants they do attract slugs, snails, earwigs and deer. You can easily take care of the slugs, snails and earwigs organically using Sluggo Plus. Sluggo Plus is a new organic gardening pest control that is pet safe and really does work! If you have deer that have access to your garden you will have a difficult time growing hostas. Deer love to eat hostas! The best way to  protect your hosta plants from deer is to install fencing that they cannot jump.

Stargazer Perennials grows and sells a wide variety of hosta plants at our farm and plant nursery. We offer our hosta plants at our farm and plant nursery in Eastern Oregon and we also sell hosta plants online. We grow and ship our hardy hosta plants in 1 gallon nursery trade containers unlike many nurseries that ship only bare root divisions. 

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