Description
Hosta ‘Fire Island’ is a brash, bold hosta with vibrant golden leaves on contrasting candy-red stems. The leaves are ribbed and have a ruffled texture, adding to the plant’s capacity to grab attention from afar, particularly when placed in its preferred shady location. The flowers, held 10 to 15cm above the mounding foliage, are an attractive lavender colour and emerge from early summer onwards.
Hosta ‘Fire Island’ is a hosta to use where you want to be grabbed by colour or to contrast with more sedate, mid-green plants and will work excellently in bringing colour and form to shady spots, on the margins of ponds or as a colour and form contrast among woodland planting. It’s more compact, lower growing habit means it will also work well in containers, where it can act as a foil among pot displays with other plants with bolder flowers and colours.
These established, garden-ready plants have been grown at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in 2 litre containers. They will grow to an ultimate height of about 40-50cm (16-18 inches) and a spread of around twice the height of the mounding leaves.
Growing Advice
There is a bit of a misnomer that hostas need to be constantly wet to do well. They certainly don’t like soil that dries out, but they can also rot if allowed to sit in water, particularly over winter, so make sure they have a spot that is reasonably well-drained. Hostas are also better grown in partial or full shade – keep them out of afternoon mid-summer sun, which can scorch the leaves. The frustrating slug and snail damage can be warded off, in our experience, with a regular treatment with garlic spray (various recipes are available on the internet). We also find growing hostas in pots does a lot to keep the slugs and snails off.
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