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Fire and Ice Hosta

Hosta 'Fire and Ice'

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Fire and Ice is a variegated Hosta, with pure white leaves with dark green edging. This hosta produces long lasting lavender blooms and is perfect for shade gardens. Plant as a border and or in containers for continuous color and texture. (Hosta)

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Hostas are shade lovers grown mostly for their beautiful foliage, and they're probably the very best plants for groundcover under trees in most parts of the U.S. Its simple: they're delighted to grow in shady spots where your grass will not. (They are super hardy in cold areas, but are somewhat difficult as far south as the Gulf Coast).

Any gardener who lives in the huge area where Hostas are popular knows them. Now with over 1000 named cultivars, there are Hosta collectors everywhere. Just choose your favorites from the small, medium, and large sizes, and an endless choice of leaf designs. The plants, members of the lily family, are native to Korea, China and Japan, and gardeners there have used them for centuries for landscaping. The craze for Hostas is more recent in the U.S. And why not? They offer an endless variety of their wonderful fountain mound shape of handsome foliage--in lush shades of green, bluish-green, yellowish green, and all sorts of variegated types. Nothing is easier to grow; in fact, most gardeners simply ignore them, and they form their beautiful round shapes all by themselves, year after year.

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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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

  • Full Shade
  • Half Sun / Half Shade

Bloom Time

Early to late summer

Advantages

  • Groundcover
  • Mass Plantings
  • Naturalizes
  • Easy To Grow
  • Low Maintenance
  • Container Planting

Additional information

Mature Height

16-20" tall

Mature Spread

12-24" wide

Soil Type

  • Loamy Soil
  • Clay Soil
  • Well-Drained Soil

Soil Moisture

  • Average
  • Moist / Wet

Planting Depth

The top of the root should be 1" below the soil surface

Planting Time

  • Fall

Growth Rate

Slow

Flower Size

4-6" flowers

Plant Classification

Introduced Cultivar

Growing Zones

  • Zone 3
  • Zone 4
  • Zone 5
  • Zone 6
  • Zone 7
  • Zone 8
  • Zone 9
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Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 4 reviews.

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Very happy with this plant!

"I placed this bulb in a blue ceramic fish planter. It seems like every day there are new leaves. I would predict within a couple of months it's going to be a very good-sized plant. The coloring on the leaves are perfect contrast to the blue of the pot. I can't wait for the flowers."

— Maria (5/5)

Very positive experience

"#sweepstakes Planted roots in pot upon arrival under a gro light. Developed very quickly."

— Red (5/5)

GREAT HOSTA

"SEEMS TO BE DOING GREAT, LOOKS VERY GOOD EVEN THOUGH TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN VERY HOT. NICE PLANT."

— Charles (5/5)

I can't wait till this comes back in stock It's beautiful!

"It's a beautiful plant that gets lots of compliments"

— Cleo (5/5)

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