Hosta 'Blue Umbrellas'

Wow! This gigantic Hosta is slug resistant, produces huge heart-shaped blue-green leaves and can even take a little sun. Give it plenty of room to impress everyone.

As the cultivar name indicates, this is an immense hosta growing to 48 in - 120 cm in diameter! It also features very large, heart-shaped, corrugated, blue-green leaves and bell-shaped, white flowers. 'Blue Umbrellas' won the American Hosta Society Midwest Blue Award in 1987.

Hostas are hardy, versatile perennials that are perfect for shaded gardens and require little care. They offer large, bold leaves often marked with contrasting colours. They thrive in all soils from pure clay to boggy ground and they usually get bigger every year. The leaves range in shape from round to lance-shaped, and colours can be yellow to green to blue, often with white, yellow or green marginal markings. Their dense foliage crowds out most garden weeds. Hostas will bear flowers, usually lavender or white, that grow on tall stalks in early summer. They make a wonderful contrast when planted with small-leaved plants and add texture to the landscape.