Hosta 'So Sweet' 1 Gallon

Plant Height:  12 inches

Flower Height:  18 inches

Spacing:  10 inches

Sunlight:  partial shade  full
shade

Hardiness Zone:  2a

Other Names:  Plantain Lily,
Funkia

Description:

Glossy medium-green leaves with
creamy variegation and wavy
margins; provides beautiful
texture and contrast to other
plants; fragrant white spikes of
flowers in mid-summer

Ornamental Features

So Sweet Hosta features dainty
spikes of lightly-scented white
tubular flowers rising above the
foliage from early to late
summer. Its attractive textured
oval leaves remain emerald green
in color with distinctive creamy
white edges throughout the
season.

Landscape Attributes

So Sweet 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 plant, 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
So Sweet Hosta is recommended
for the following landscape
applications;

Mass Planting
Border Edging
General Garden Use
Groundcover
Planting & Growing

So Sweet Hosta will grow to be
about 12 inches tall at maturity
extending to 18 inches tall with
the flowers, with a spread of 12
inches. When grown in masses or
used as a bedding plant,
individual plants should be
spaced approximately 10 inches
apart. Its foliage tends to
remain dense right to the
ground, not requiring facer
plants in front. It grows at a
medium rate, and under ideal
conditions can be expected to
live for approximately 10 years.
As an herbaceous perennial, this
plant will usually die back to
the crown each winter, and will
regrow from the base each
spring. Be careful not to
disturb the crown in late winter
when it may not be readily
seen!

This plant 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 particular
variety is an interspecific
hybrid. It can be propagated by
division; however, as a
cultivated variety, be aware
that it may be subject to
certain restrictions or
prohibitions on propagation.