Golden Acre Home & Garden Centre's Plant Library

Other Names:  Plantain Lily, Funkia

Brand:  Walters Gardens

Description:

A stunning, large hosta featuring broad. smooth, heart shaped leaves of bright golden yellow; provides beautiful texture and contrast to other plants; tall spikes of very faint lavender and white flowers in midsummer

Ornamental Features

Age of Gold Hosta features dainty spikes of white tubular flowers with lavender overtones rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive large textured oval leaves remain gold in colour with showy lime green variegation and tinges of chartreuse throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Age of Gold Hosta is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects

Age of Gold Hosta is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover

Planting & Growing

Age of Gold Hosta will grow to be about 25 inches tall at maturity extending to 4 feet tall with the flowers, with a spread of 5 feet. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 4 feet apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial, this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter, and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!

This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.