Vulcan Hosta

The Hosta Vulcan, (Hosta 'Vulcan'), is an outstanding and classy Hosta that creates a "wow" reaction! Also known as Vulcan Plantain Lily, Hosta are shade garden standards that every garden seems bare without one!

Vulcan has broad, heart-shaped leaves with white streaks and brilliant stripes and streaks, plus prominent white-centered leaves. The contrasting dark green margins have lighter yellow coloring.

This medium-sized Hosta adds so a chic splash of brightness to your landscape! Emerging early spring and forming a fountain-like, mounding habit, Vulcan Hosta spills up-and-out over the ground beautifully!

Also producing lovely light-lavender flowers on white scapes. Vulcan Hosta typically blooms from mid to late summer. Hummingbirds and butterflies will show up to the show for the nectar resource, adding to the elegance!

How to Use Vulcan Hosta In The Landscape

The vigorous growth of Vulcan Hosta makes itself at home in shady, woodland settings and an eye-catcher when planted en masse. The brilliance of the pure white centers and green coloration and often works amazingly as a standout specimen plant!

Mid-sized, Vulcan is wonderful in containers and planters throughout your shady patio or porch. Perfect spillers and fillers in potted combinations throughout the growing season!

Have a shady strip along an east or north-facing part of your home or garage? Plant a colorful row of Vulcan Hosta! Or a row in front of your dappled shade foundation plantings give your curb appeal a bright boost!

Grow a circlet of green and white around a specimen plant or statement piece in your garden to make it stand out! Hosta work wonderfully under trees and large shrubs to hide the bare stems and branches where Hosta makes perfect groundcover, embracing the shade. They grow in shady spots where your grass will not! Plus, no worry about competing roots.

Perfect for shady Asian and Zen-inspired gardens, lending a cool and calming presence to areas for meditation and relaxation. In fact about any garden design looks more peaceful with a few Hosta!

Contemporary, formal plantings and informal cottage gardens alike benefit from these colorful perennials. Borders look high-style with long rows of Hosta, and so will the edges along beds, driveway and shady paths. Butterfly gardens and cottage gardens will get a traditional look with the addition of a few of these colorful perennials!

Partnering fantastically with other shade perennials such as Fern or Bleeding Hearts. Or for a real statement piece, create your own Hosta garden for an impressively colorful display. After all, there are about a thousand different varieties of Hosta these days, in all shapes and sizes!

#ProPlantTips For Care

Plant this low-care perennial in an area that receives the right amount of light. The leaves need some morning sun to bring out the best coloration, but too much sun will burn Hosta foliage, especially in hotter summer climates. Best for full shade in hot summers and part sun/part shade locations everywhere else.

Hostas grow best in moist, well-drained, highly organic soils with a pH between 5.5 and 7.5. Sandy loam is better than clay because it provides more aeration for the roots. A generous layer of mulch helps retain soil moisture as well as insulate the root system from heat and chill.

Wait until the leaves have been exposed to frost and have turned brown before removing all leaf litter in late fall.

Vulcan exhibits an excellent growth rate, outstanding garden performance, and gives you a long season of appealing color in a landscape! Brighten your gardenscapes with the brilliance Vulcan Hosta reliably brings year after year! Order yours today!