| It is ideal for growing in a mixed planting of hostas, siberian iris, and other good foliage plants. |
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| Last year I underestimated the growth of my hostas and planted dahlias somewhere in their vicinity. |
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| The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes. |
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| In partial shade, use balloon flowers as accent plants placed among foxgloves, hostas, or lamb's ears. |
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| It helped me remember things like where my bulbs were, how many hostas I'd planted and which varieties of crocosmias went where. |
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| Use dwarf goat's beard in partial shaded rock gardens with hostas, toad lilies, tiarellas, and wildflowers. |
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| Experts advise against planting hostas closer in an attempt to get a full effect sooner. |
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| Throughout the woodlands, color can be found in late-blooming azaleas, lilies, bugbanes, hostas, and hydrangeas. |
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| Herbaceous borders are planted with a wide variety of hostas, pelargoniums, ferns, iris, dicentras and spring bulbs. |
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| It is dominated by hostas, peonies, campanula, and daylilies but holds a wealth of perennials and self-sowing annuals. |
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| Clematis and trumpet vines drape the walls in a lush curtain, and elephant's ears, hostas, and hardy bananas lend swaths of varied greens. |
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| There is no reason why hostas can't be grown in containers just as successfully as an exotic hibiscus. |
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| The following plants can be woven together with large hostas and astilbes to make an ordinary shade garden look stunning. |
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| Around the house are herbaceous beds with cranesbill, catmint, astrantias, irises and hostas in subtle colours. |
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| Plants in other bed are mainly low-growing, shade-loving perennials, such as the hostas, ferns, and lungworts clustered beneath trees. |
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| In addition to local nurseries, hostas are available from several mail-order nurseries. |
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| The only major pests of hostas are slugs, which thrive in the moist, cool, shady areas that hostas love. |
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| The long tubular flowers look great with many ornamentals but are especially attractive near green-and-white hostas and dark daylilies. |
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| Outside the dining-room window, a tiered fountain bubbles in a shady entry garden with nandina, butterfly iris, camellias, ferns and hostas. |
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| Directly beneath the hanging basket is a large, frost-proof terracotta pot permanently planted with hostas, spring bulbs such as miniature daffodils and grape hyacinth. |
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| Covering the hillside around the patio is a tapestry of astilbes, azaleas, campanulas, ferns, hellebores, hostas, Japanese maples, moss, and rhododendrons. |
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| Ferns, hostas, camellias, pieris, heucheras and many others can provide foliage interest, while flowering interest can come from fuchsias, lilies and impatiens. |
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| Common bulbs planted in the fall for the spring are tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, muscari, crocuses and perennials such as peonies, daylilies, hostas, and coral-bells. |
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| Roses, honeysuckle and clematis run vigorously together up the pergola, beneath which are hebes, more hostas, hardy geraniums and several magnificent phormiums. |
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| In the past, hostas also were called plantain lilies or funkias. |
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| There are viburnums, a score of tiarellas, hardy roses in a colorful variety types and forms, hostas, hydrangeas and tomatoes. |
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| Great ones to choose include blue satin flowers, forget-me-nots, horsetail rushes, hostas and water dropworts. |
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| A large shade garden is filled with azaleas, hostas, camellias, aucuba, and dozens of varieties of hydrangeas. |
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| Fibrously rooted perennials such as hostas, Hemerocallis and asters, are best divided using two forks placed back-toback. |
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| Garden House Nurseries are specialists in growing hostas, geraniums and hemerocallis. |
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| Then you can include typical woodland dwellers like epimediums, uvularia and hostas. |
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| On a shady balcony, camellias, fatsia, certain helleborus, hostas and rhododendrons are suitable for pots and containers. |
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| Perennials which benefit from dividing every few years include hostas, cranesbill geranium, montbretia, rudbeckia, helenium and aster. |
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| People can create a mood in their garden using green, big-leaved plants such as hostas, ligularia and darmera, which give you weight in a border. |
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| Ferns, hostas, gingers, bleeding hearts, astilbes, trilliums and dozens and dozens of other plants will perform wonderfully well in such a location. |
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| Hostas should be planted in the soil and mulched lightly to help them through the freeze and thaw cycles. |
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| Hostas are very thirsty plants, and get even thirstier in containers. |
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