Hosta 'Fortunei Hyacinthina' ~ Fortunei Hyacinthina Hosta

Hosta 'Fortunei Hyacinthina' ~ Fortunei Hyacinthina HostaFortunei Hyacinthina Hosta is a shade loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its large attractive basal foliage that emerges blue green and matures to gray green with a very fine white margin. The bell like pale lavender flowers raise up in terminals from the rootstalk above the mound in mid summer attracting butterflies. Best bloom in partial sun and moist well drained soils. Fortunei Hyacinthina is highly slug resistant. Syn. with Hosta

Fortunei Hyacinthina Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for its large attractive basal foliage that emerges blue-green and matures to gray green with a very fine white margin.  The bell-like pale lavender flowers raise up in terminals from the rootstalk above the mound in mid-summer attracting butterflies.  Best bloom in partial sun and moist well-drained soils.  Fortunei Hyacinthina is highly slug resistant.

Syn. with Hosta fortunei var. hyacinthina.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS:   Low maintenance.  Snails and slugs can cause severe problems if left unchecked.  Foliar nematodes can cause interveinal browning. Plants infected with Hosta Virus X (HVX), tobacco rattle virus or tomato ring spot virus should be immediately removed from garden areas and destroyed.  Otherwise, little to no problems.

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Woodland Gardens, Rock Gardens, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:   Japanese Forest Grass, Columbine, Painted Fern

IMAGES: Danny Steaven, Flower011, CC BY 1.0, (2) Sten Porse, Hosta fortunei1Sten Porse, CC BY-SA 3.0, (3) Danny Steaven, Flower013, CC BY 1.0, (4) Photo by David J. Stang, Hosta fortunei Hyacinthina 2zz, CC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown