Lakeshore Garden Centres Plant Finder

Other Names:  Plantain Lily, Funkia

Group/Class:  Lakeside Series

Description:

A wonderful and vigorous variety ideal for shady beds, borders and containers; small mounds feature foliage with white centers and deep green margins and variegation; lavender flowers appear in the midsummer months; low maintenance

Ornamental Features

Lakeside Elfin Fire Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender tubular flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive tiny textured narrow leaves remain creamy white in colour with showy dark green variegation throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Lakeside Elfin Fire Hosta is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

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

Lakeside Elfin Fire Hosta is recommended for the following landscape applications;

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

Planting & Growing

Lakeside Elfin Fire Hosta will grow to be only 4 inches tall at maturity extending to 6 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. 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.