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Curly Fries Hosta

Hosta 'Curly Fries'

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  • Curly Fries Hosta is a one-of-a-kind hosta with narrow, wildly rippled leaves
  • Chartreuse to golden foliage brightens shady spots
  • Small size made for containers, rock gardens and edging
  • Lavender summer blooms attract hummingbirds
  • Named 2016 Hosta of the Year
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Description

Forget everything you thought you knew about hostas. Curly Fries Hosta trades the classic broad leaf for long, narrow, intensely rippled foliage that twists and curls just like its namesake. The result is a playful, arching, texture-rich clump that looks far removed from the hostas you know.

The foliage ranges from yellow to chartreuse and develops its brightest color with a little morning sun. In midsummer, lavender flowers rise just above the leaves, inviting hummingbirds and bees to visit, and mature plants develop charming red-speckled leaf stems. Its small size makes it ideal for containers, rock gardens, edging and small shade beds, or tucked between larger hostas where the contrast in leaf shape really stands out.

Curly Fries was named the 2016 Hosta of the Year by the American Hosta Growers Association, an honor that celebrates outstanding garden performance.

Planting & Care

Propagation is simple, too: If you've never divided a Hosta, let me tell you how simple and successful it can be. I once volunteered to help a friend divide three or four large, old Hosta clumps into smaller plants to line a shady walk. We began by digging them up, and then split the big fleshy root masses with a hatchet. Underground, Hostas are much like Daylilies, with fleshy, heavy masses of thick rootstocks. Once, we had the old clumps chopped into 8 or 10 equal-size pieces each, we simply dug a trench on both sides of the shady walk, and buried the pieces spaced evenly apart. They looked fine on through that summer, and the very next spring, each one was up, healthy, and already formed into a perfect circle! So don't think if you divide yours, you'll disturb that wonderful round fountain shape. They just recover and create a new whorled circle wherever you put the divided pieces. Today, that walk is edged with large, lush circles of Hosta foliage all season long.

The Flowers Yes, Hostas do flower, and some cultivars have quite beautiful blooms, mostly purplish, blue or white, on tall lily-like stems above the foliage. Hosta purists often nip off the flower stalks before they can bloom, preferring to throw all the growth into the all-important foliage of the plants.

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Key Features

Light Requirements

  • Morning Sun & Afternoon Shade
  • Full Shade

Bloom Time

Midsummer

Advantages

  • Attracts Hummingbirds
  • Striking Foliage
  • Easy To Grow
  • Low Maintenance
  • Container Planting
  • Small Spaces

Additional information

Mature Height

6 inches (16 inches in bloom)

Mature Spread

12-16 inches

Soil Type

  • Average Soil
  • Loamy Soil
  • Acidic Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Moist / Wet

Planting Depth

The base of the stem(s) should be just at the soil surface after watering in

Planting Time

  • Spring / Summer

Plant Classification

Introduced Cultivar

Native To

Genus native to East Asia

Growing Zones

  • Zone 3
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9

Poisonous or Toxic to Animals

Toxic to dogs, cats, and horses
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