Since I have a lot of shade in my front yard and part of my backyard I have room for a lot of them. I have about twenty different types so far. I tend to like the ones that have white or cream edges (margins), but I am trying to mix some plain or two-toned green ones in for contrast.
These are some of my favourites:
Hosta 'June' - Gold coloured leaves with blue-green margins. It seems to be quite resistant to slugs. It was one of 'Mark's Choices' at the Home Hardware store last year and I've been quite pleased with it.
Hosta 'Lancifolia' - this was a gift from friends and it has lovely shiny leaves that are fairly slender. It has a medium-green coloured leaves.
Hosta 'Queen Josephine' has medium green leaves with a lovely ivory coloured margins.
Hosta 'Blue Mouse Ears' - this is a really tiny one, plain green roundish leaves. It's kind of adorable mixed in with the larger ones.
Hosta 'Gold Standard' - this is the only hosta that was on our property when we bought it. It's also the only hosta I'd had before (at our old house). Since I couldn't bring my hosta with me I was very happy to have this one. You can see a little damage to a couple of the leaves. I'm wondering if a little rabbit had a bite or two.
Hosta 'Longissima' is the name of this one. I looked it up on the hosta libray website and the ones there are solid green. I got this one from a member of my horticulural society, so this must be a different variety of "Longissima'. So far it is small so I'm not sure how big it will get. It's a lovely contrast to the others, because the leaves are so narrow.
Hosta 'Krossa Regal' - mine is quite small still, but these ones have an interesting feature that they grow up in an upright position. On the side you can see one of my little gophers that our niece bought us years ago.
