Ecologically minded gardens are in vogue, which is all to the good. One of the hallmarks of a successful landscape is that it is in harmony with its place, in its flora, planting aesthetic and general ...

Hostas on the Bluff in St. Clair County, IL, carries hundreds of varieties of hostas. Visit the garden, relax on the patio, buy plants. ... Giantland Puckered Crevice and Giantland Ice Princess.

It’s a garden that starts with little and inexpensive plants, might never need water or fertilizer, and requires almost no maintenance. With those alluring attributes, no wonder crevice gardens ...

Hostas are not typically grown from seed in home gardens, and it's easy to obtain them as dormant bare root specimens or as active potted plants. Your planting process, then, is quite straightforward.

The National Garden Bureau designated 2024 as the Year of the Hosta, but I would dare say that once you start growing hostas, every year thereafter will be cause for celebration.

According to the American Hosta Society, there are more than 3000 varieties of hostas covering 45 species including stalwarts of our gardens such as Hosta sieboldiana, H. elegans and H. montana.

There are around 20 varieties of Shadowland hostas, and by the time I plant Shadowland Love Story and Shadowland Lone Star, I will be growing half that number.

Plant collector and grower Tony Avent has created a 300-foot-long crevice garden at Juniper Level Botanic Garden in Raleigh, N.C. Tony Avent/Plant Delights Nursery ...

Crevice gardens are a way to create stability and visual interest in rock walls by adding plants between hardscape. But an emerging trend brings the notion of the crevice garden to flat yards, too.