Hosta Shadowland® 'Coast to Coast'
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Hosta Shadowland® 'Coast to Coast': Supersized Gold That Lights the Back Row
Huge, puckered gold leaves in an upright mound you could spot from the next province over. 'Coast to Coast' doesn't just fill the shade garden. IT COVERS THE WHOLE COUNTRY.
Plant Characteristics:
- Botanical Name: Hosta hybrid
- Common Name: Plantain Lily, Hosta
- Series: Shadowland®, a Proven Winners® perennial
- Height: 76 cm (30 in), with flower scapes to about 90 cm (3 ft)
- Spread: 90 cm (3 ft)
- Flowers: Pale violet
- Bloom Time: Midsummer (July to August)
- Foliage: Large, thick, puckered gold leaves with wavy edges and pale undersides, held in an upright mound
- Features: Upright giant habit
Where to Plant: Use it as a specimen, the centrepiece of a shade bed, or the back of a woodland border, where its gold leaves light up the scene. It also works in a large container, and it tolerates black walnut, but protect it where deer and rabbits roam.
Companion Plants: Give big gold 'Coast to Coast' a moist, shady bed with deep red hellebores, yellow wood poppies and dark bugbane. Helleborus HGC® Ice N' Roses® Carlotta opens deep red flowers at 30 to 50 cm from March to May. Stylophorum diphyllum adds yellow wood poppies at 30 to 45 cm in May and June. Cimicifuga 'Atropurpurea' rises behind at 150 to 180 cm with fragrant white spikes from August to October. Carex rosea edges the front with a fine native sedge at 30 cm.
Plant Care: Plant in part sun to full shade, in moist, well-drained soil rich in organic matter. A few hours of morning sun deepens the gold; avoid harsh afternoon sun. Water deeply during dry spells and mulch to keep the soil cool. Give it room to reach full size over a few seasons. Remove flower scapes after bloom and cut back dead foliage after frost. Divide in spring if you want more plants.
History: Olga Petryszyn of Indiana, the hybridizer behind 'Brother Stefan', bred 'Coast to Coast' from a cross of 'Manhattan' and 'Golden Gate' and registered it in 2014. It was introduced in the Shadowland® collection from Proven Winners®.
Final Thoughts: Give it shade and space, then watch every road trip in the neighbourhood slow down out front. ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW.