Golden Acre Home & Garden Centre's Plant Library

Other Names:  Plantain Lily, Funkia

Group/Class:  Shadowland Collection

Brand:  Proven Winners

Description:

This majestic selection features medium green, heart shaped leaves with white centers and light green streaks; near white flowers with a lavender pattern on tall spikes in mid-summer; a versatile, colorful addition to the garden or landscape

Ornamental Features

Shadowland® Miss America Hosta features dainty spikes of creamy white tubular flowers with lavender stripes rising above the foliage in mid summer, which emerge from distinctive lavender flower buds. Its attractive large textured heart-shaped leaves remain forest green in colour with showy white variegation and tinges of lime green throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Shadowland® Miss America 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

Shadowland® Miss America Hosta is recommended for the following landscape applications;

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

Planting & Growing

Shadowland® Miss America Hosta will grow to be about 20 inches tall at maturity extending to 5 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.