If you grow hostas as ground cover, you'll know that they provide bold color and structure to shady gardens. There's a plant that complements hostas beautifully — softening their drama with its pastel ...

Hostas covering the ground in a forest with a wooden pathway winding through the center - Mint Images/Getty Images There are 22 species of hostas, all of which are commonly used as ornamental foliage ...

Local wholesale nurseryman Bobby Green thought I'd been too hard on hostas. Yes, he agreed, almost all the hostas folks try to grow here are at best pitiful shadows of what they're advertised to be.

HOSTAS ARE GREAT plants for a moist, shady location. These long-lived, amazingly hardy (-35 degrees) natives of Japan and China come in a mind-boggling array of sizes, shapes and colors. There are ...

Like most things in this world, hostas are not perfect. They are, rather, a mix of good and less-than-good. Fortunately for the hungry Northwest gardener, the good is huge and the less-than-good is ...

The star of many a shade garden, hostas are adored for their diverse leaves not their blooms. "Most people grow them strictly for the foliage," said Michael Laico, president of the Greater Carolinas ...

The great thing about this aesthetic garden bed weed solution is that it blocks sunlight from reaching the seeds, preventing ...