Frances Williams Hosta
Hosta 'Frances Williams'
$17.00 – $25.00
A well loved, slow to establish variety featuring mounds of large, blue-green, heart-shaped foliage with chartreuse margins; pale lilac-white blooms appear on tall scapes in the midsummer months; adds color, contrast and texture to shaded garden beds
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
Frances Williams 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.
Ornamental Qualities
Frances Williams Hosta features dainty spikes of white bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive large textured heart-shaped leaves remain bluish-green in color with distinctive chartreuse edges throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Frances Williams Hosta will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 32 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 4 feet apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground | not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium 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 24"(32"withtheflowers)Hx4'W
Flowers are white
Flowers in mid summer
Zone 2a
Likes average to moist soil