Hostas. I bet you can't grow just one. I always warn that they are addictive Forty years ago, there were only a few dozen varieties available. Nowadays, you can have hundreds of varieties. Some are ...

Hostas are so easy to grow that we rarely see a temperate shade garden without one. The dizzying selection of foliage means we never tire of them, either. A collection of blue, lime, creamy, and green ...

Our yard is, to the uninspired, a gardener’s nightmare. It has a steep incline with a northern exposure. The soil is acidic and moist. Trees surround us and the only available full sun is above and ...

Hostas are one of the easiest ground covers to grow. Plant a spindly little snippet of a plant and it grows twice its size in no time at all. In a few years you will be digging it up, dividing it and ...

Hostas are addictive. I bet you can't grow just one. Bettie Jernigan couldn't. The late plant pioneer from Sampson County was my mentor in daylilies. But her favorite plants, by far, were hostas. "I ...

So versatile and ubiquitous are hostas that I have yet to visit a garden that doesn’t have at least one whether left by a previous gardener or selected by the present one. Hostas certainly are ...

) has registered about 5,000 hosta varieties, although hybridizer Mark Zilis, author of two books on these plants, estimates there may be as many as 8,000 identified cultivars. We’ve come a long way ...

What do cotton candy, curly fries, cracker crumbs, corn muffins, crumb cake and cream topping have in common? Throw in some cherry pie, cherry tomato, avocado, guacamole, fried bananas, strawberry ...

Most gardeners are familiar with the perennial plant known as a hosta. It is a well-known staple for any shade garden. Hostas, however, are much more versatile than most gardeners know. Here is a fun ...