August Moon Hosta

Hosta 'August Moon'

August Moon Hosta is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial primarily grown for their foliage.  The heart-shaped leaves are deeply veined and open chartreuse-green and mature to golden.  Small bell-like lavender-white flowers raise up in terminals from the greyish-yellow rootstalk above the mound in mid-summer attracting butterflies and pollinators.  Best bloom in partial sun and moist well-drained soils.   August Moon is more sun tolerant than most Hosta.

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, Naturalized Areas, Rock Gardens, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:    Bleeding Heart, Ligularia, Japanese Forest Grass

IMAGES: cultivar413,  160725 369 Chi Bot Gdn West Flower Walk, (2) Photo by David J. Stang,  Hosta August Moon 0zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0, (3) Photo by David J. Stang,  Hosta August Moon 1zz,  CC BY-SA 4.0, (4) I,  Terren Peterson,  August Moon Hosta,  CC BY-SA 3.0

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