Hostas with a golden touch: illuminate your garden with these radiant plants

摘要

Hostas are the most popular hardy perennial in the United States, and with good reason. Besides providing texture and large leaves to garden plantings, hostas offer an exceptional range of leaf colors, which makes them outstanding foils, specimens, and accents in any shade garden. My hosta collection boasts about 2,300 kinds, including those with green, blue, yellow, and variegated leaves. I'd have to admit though that yellow-leaved hostas are my favorites. Their luminescent leaves glow at dusk andat dawn as well as on rainy or over-cast days. They brighten up dark corners of the garden and are especially noticeable when combined with plants with green or blue foliage.