A compact, clump-forming, slow growing, herbaceous plant, with heart shaped blue-green leaves with a silvery-blue waxy sheen. Will mound to about 18cm (7ins) high and sends up 30cm (1ft) tall, clusters of pale lavender flowers on upright stems during mid-summer. Grow in a sheltered shady spot in fertile soil that does not dry out.

Hostas make ideal ground cover plants for sun or partial shade and once established can be left undisturbed for years. The variegated varieties keep their colouring better if planted in semi-shade. They thrive in well-drained but moisture retentive soils and this should be enriched with well rotted compost or leaf-mould. The foliage is most attractive and in the summer the plants are crowned with racemes of nodding trumpet-like flowers which are attractive to bees and other pollinating insects. They are also good planted in pots and containers. The foliage will die down in the winter then re-shoot in the spring. Height and spread 10 - 50cm (4 - 20ins).

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