Fried Bananas Hosta

Other Names: Plantain Lily, Funkia

Description:

This radiant hosta produces bright glossy gold leaves that are symmetrical and ridged; color intensifies in bright light; provides beautiful texture and contrast to other plants; elegant white spikes of large flowers later in summer

Ornamental Features:

Fried Bananas Hosta features dainty spikes of white tubular flowers rising above the foliage in late summer. It's attractive glossy oval leaves remain gold in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Fried Bananas Hosta is a dense herbaceous perennial with tall flower stalks held atop a low mound of foliage. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance perennial, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects

Fried Bananas Hosta is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Groundcover
• Border Edging

Plant Characteristics:

Fried Bananas Hosta will grow to be about 24 inches tall at maturity extending to 3 feet tall with the flowers, with a spread of 4 feet. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years.

This perennial does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.