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

Silly String Hosta is an herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.

Ornamental Qualities

Silly String Hosta features dainty spikes of purple tubular flowers rising above the foliage in mid summer. Its attractive twisted narrow leaves emerge powder blue in spring | turning bluish-green in color with hints of silvery blue throughout the season.

Planting and Growing

Silly String Hosta will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity extending to 24 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 28 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 24 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground | not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a fast 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 14"(24"withtheflowers)Hx28"W

Flowers are purple

Flowers in mid summer

Attracts hummingbirds

Zone 2a

Likes average to moist soil