Fire and Ice Hosta
Hosta 'Fire and Ice'
$12.98 – $25.00
A white leaf center with wide, streaky dark green margins; leaf is a rounded heart shape with good substance; spikes of pale lavender flowers in mid to late summer; a beautiful light color addition to the garden or border
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Fire and Ice Hosta is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Fire and Ice Hosta features dainty spikes of lilac purple tubular flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late summer. Its attractive heart-shaped leaves remain white in color with distinctive dark green edges and tinges of chartreuse throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Fire and Ice Hosta will grow to be about 20 inches tall at maturity extending to 30 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 4 feet. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 3 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.
Plant Facts
Prefers partial shade to shade
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 20"(30"withtheflowers)Hx4'W
Flowers are lilac
Flowers from mid to late summer
Zone 3a
Likes average to moist soil