Wide Brim is a time-tested hosta with dark green leaves edged in wide, irregular borders of buttery yellow. It forms a neat, rounded mound and adapts to a wide range of light, from full shade up to about three-quarters of a day of sun.
The mound grows about 16 inches tall and 2 to 3½ feet wide. Attractive buds open to pale lavender flowers on 24-inch scapes in mid to late summer. It is easy to grow and looks good massed, as a specimen, or in containers.
What it looks like
Rounded heart-shaped leaves in dark green with wide, irregular buttery yellow margins that fade toward cream later in the season. Leaves are thick and lightly puckered with a matte surface. The plant forms a neat, rounded mound about 16 inches tall and 24 to 40 inches wide. In mid to late summer, scapes about 24 inches tall carry pale lavender trumpet flowers. At peak the yellow borders ring each dark leaf across the mound.
Growing it with lavender
Even though it handles some sun, it still wants richer, moister soil than lavender, so plant it in a separate bed with daylilies, astilbe or ferns rather than in a dry lavender border.
Care
Takes anything from full shade to about three-quarters of a day of sun, as long as the soil stays evenly moist and rich in organic matter. Hardy in zones 3-9. Water deeply in hot, dry weather, remove spent scapes, and divide in early spring if the clump gets crowded.
At a glance
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Botanical name: Hosta
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Flower color: Pale lavender
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Foliage: Dark green with wide buttery yellow margins
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Growth habit: Neat, rounded mound
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Mature size: 16 in tall × 24–40 in wide
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USDA hardiness zones: 3–9
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Light: full sun, part sun to part shade, full shade
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Bloom start: Mid-July
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Peak bloom: Early-August
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Bloom pattern: Single Flush
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Deer resistance: Susceptible
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Pollinator value: Good
Sizes and shipping
Dormant bare-root plant, sold in boxes of 25 per variety (order in multiples of 25). Bare-root plants ship or are picked up March 1–May 31 only. They are soil-free, so they may ship to every state in that window. Dormant plants often show little or no top growth on arrival; plant or heel them in promptly.
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