Discover the best time to cut back hostas to ensure healthy growth and prevent disease. Learn the signs, benefits, and ...

Here’s when to tidy up your hostas in the garden. Best of all, hostas are low-maintenance plants that anyone can grow. For most of the season, you won’t have to do much to keep them looking good.

Getty Images Hostas are an old favorite in the perennial garden, with good reason: They’re reliable, long-lived shade-loving plants that come in an array of pretty hues from chartreuse to blue ...

Hostas (also known as plantain lilies) are popular plants known for their big, leafy green or variegated foliage. They’re ...

With a pair of garden pruners, cut your hosta’s foliage back to around two centimeters above ground level. “This will remove ...

Although it is late in the season, some have had success planting hostas as late as the first week in November. Plants in a dormant state that are put in just before the first hard freeze will not ...

Some types of perennials, including hosta, do not have sturdy stems, and quickly turn to mush after a few hard freezes. Hosta, daylilies and iris are best cut back in fall to an inch or so above ...

While they’re known as shade plants, a number of hostas—generally those with yellow or gold foliage—tolerate some sun without sacrificing their coloration. Relatively disease-free ...

If slugs have munched through your prize hostas and devastated your dahlias, don’t despair. There are ways you can live with slugs and create ...