Hosta 'Painted Lady'
Asparagaceae
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Habitat:
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full or partial shade
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Flowering:
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summer
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Size:
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50
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30
(w x h cm) |
Soil:
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moist well-drained
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Price
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£8.00
(2 litre pot)
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Order code:
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HP8-2
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Hostas are normally grown for their foliage, and cultivars have been produced with an astonishing variety of leaf shape, colour and size. Most of broad, rounded leaves with a pointed tip, and these may be blue-grey, green, yellow or cream, and striped in any number of ways with any of the other colours. Most have leaves 20 to30 cm long, but there are lovely miniatures, and a few bigger ones. Relatively tall stems carry the tubular flowers, which are almost invariably white or pale purply blue, and rarely add much to the attractiveness of the plants. In autumn they die down, so the leaves are easily cleared away, ready to emerge in spring.
Hosta 'Painted Lady' is distinguished by its foliage, which is rather longer than wide, pointed at the tip, and green, with a hint of blue, and lined along each edge with a narrow strip of white.
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Neat Hosta with white flowers and heart-shaped leaves.
Lime green leaves with deep green edges; dwarf.
Striking pale creamy lime green leaves.
Lilac flower spikes over cream-slashed leaves.
Puckered, grey-green leaves suffused with a darker, metallic colour.
Excellent dwarf variety with narrow, lance-shaped leaves with white margins.
Dwarf plants with narrow, lance-shaped leaves with white margins.
Compact variety with heart-shaped leaves; pale lavender flowers in summer.
Hosta with heart-shaped, bright grey-blue leaves.
Clump forming with strong blue green leaves and spikes of pale lilac flowers.
Compact plant with narrow, white-edged leaves and purple flowers.
Hosta with heart- shaped, very puckered and thick glaucous deep blue foliage.
Compact, with small, tapered green leaves and lilac flowers.
Mid green leaves with broad margins of creamy white.
Unusual, with folded dark green, gold-margined leaves.
Cream-coloured leaves with irregular green margins, bearing lilac flowers.
Blue-grey, glaucous, heavily puckered leaves; spikes of pale lilac flowers.
Compact variety with, thin ripple-edged cream and green leaves; purple flowers.
Lime green leaves edged with darker green; dwarf.
Patterned foliage with cream centres and green edges.
Blue-grey, glaucous, heavily veined leaves and spikes of lilac flowers.
Dwarf variety with golden green leaves and dark lavender to purple flowers.
Large, rounded, brilliant gold leaves makes this hosta stand out.