11 Awesome Ideas on Landscaping with Hostas
18.07.2023 - 05:09
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Coming in an array of colors, shapes, and sizes, Landscaping with Hostas will allow you to use the plant to its full potential to make your yard stand out!
Prized with robust, attractive, and heart-shaped blue-green foliage, hostas can highlight your landscape with their immense beauty. Planting them outside your house in the front garden is an excellent idea to boost the curb appeal.
Select medium or low-growing hostas as an edging plant for pathways. As hostas are evergreen perennial, they keep their show of attractive foliage for most of the year.
A single hosta can be more attractive than a whole border. Choose large-leaf varieties like Blue Hawaii, Gentle Giant, T Rex, and Wu-La-la, as they can create more drama if used as ‘thriller’ grow them in big planters and tubs.
You can grow hostas on your front porch in an area that receives some shade. Planting them in tall planters is also an option to create a statement.
Grow hostas in decorative pots, place them in your patio, display them in mixed varieties in containers, or keep one alone in a pot. Hostas also look well with colorful annuals and other foliage plants.
Hostas are a great option to create garden borders. They look great the entire season long and available in a range of blue, yellow, and variegated leaves. Adding it brings a feel of texture, like a tapestry, that shapes the front of a border.
Low or medium-sized blue-leaved varieties like halcyon hostas are an excellent choice for dense shade ground cover. In addition, you can grow gold-leaf type and variegated ones likePatriot hosta and ‘Minuteman’ for illuminating effects.
Do not leave hostas alone in the garden — instead, mix them with other shade-loving perennials like ajuga, coral bells, pachysandra,