Loyalist Hosta
Hosta 'Loyalist'
$30.00
A slow growing, small to medium sized variety featuring thick leaves with creamy white centers and dark green margins and variegation; pale lavender flowers appear in midsummer; good slug and snail resistance; adds color and texture to beds and borders
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
Loyalist 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
Loyalist Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender bell-shaped flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive textured heart-shaped leaves remain creamy white in color with showy dark green variegation throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Loyalist Hosta will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity extending to 28 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 30 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 26 inches 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 18"(28"withtheflowers)Hx30"W
Flowers are lavender
Flowers in mid summer
Zone 2a
Likes average to moist soil