Plant Height: 15 inches
Flower Height: 20 inches
Spacing: 20 inches
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Hardiness Zone: 3a
Other Names: Plantain Lily, Funkia
Description:
A beautiful mounding hosta with graceful long green leaves, with yellow to cream wide margins; provides beautiful texture and contrast to other plants; purple spikes of flowers in mid to late summer
Ornamental Features
Bold Ribbons Hosta features dainty spikes of lavender tubular flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late summer. Its attractive glossy narrow leaves remain forest green in color with distinctive lemon yellow edges throughout the season.
Landscape Attributes
Bold Ribbons Hosta is a dense 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.
This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;
- Insects
Bold Ribbons Hosta is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Mass Planting
- Border Edging
- General Garden Use
- Groundcover
Planting & Growing
Bold Ribbons Hosta will grow to be about 15 inches tall at maturity extending to 20 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 20 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a slow 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.
