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Hosta Heat Wave

Thick, leather-like leaves with a yellow center and wide blue-green margin. Tetraploid.
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Plant Size:
Medium
Flower Color:
Pale lavender
Product Code:
H231
Supplied as:
bare roots

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Hosta 'Heat Wave' has a thick, leather-like leaves with a strongly corrugated leaves with yellow center surrounded by a very wide blue-green to green-blue borders. This cultivar is not growing rapidly. Good contrast between the center and the edge will last all the season long. Hosta 'Heat Wave' is a tetraploid version of 'Bright Lights'. It likes a bit of sun, where its color is more intense. Same as hosta 'Bright Lights' grows slowly and in the central European condition do not reach the size as declared by registration. 

How to grow hostas

Save light shade to shade place in your garden to plant hostas. Filtered sun is best for the colorful varieties to reach their full color contrast. The green and blue hostas are the most shade-tolerant. Usually the yellow cultivars are the most sun-tolerant. The most dangerous is a direct sunshine, especially hot afternoon sun. This is the most critical where temperatures are high. Variegated varieties, especially those with a lot of white in the leaves, burn very easily. Blue color of leaves turns to green-blue or even fully green with too much direct sun. Plants with thick leaves are better suited for dry soil conditions than thin-leaved ones, but none is able to grow years-long in very dry soil. Plant hostas in moist, humus-rich soil.

Water your hostas well immediately as you plant them. Give them water regularly during their first one or two growing season.

Hostas grow slowly and may take 2 to 5 years to reach their full size, longer for the largest species and cultivars. Reserve a plenty of space in your perennial bed for hostas. Most of them are medium sized or large perennials. Hostas are almost fully disease and pest resistant. The most dangerous injury can by caused by slugs, snails and deers. 

Additional Information
Additional Information
Plant Size Medium
Spacing (h x w) 35 x 45 cm
Leaf Size 15 x 10 cm
Growth Rate Fast
Leaf Color No
Leaf Color (Center) Green
Leaf Color (Margin) Blue
Red "legs" No
Slug Resistant No
Sun Tolerant No
Flower Color Pale lavender
Wavy Leaf No
Flower Fragrance No
Sun Exposure Shade
Hybridized by J. van den Top
Year of Registration 1990
Supplied as bare roots
YT Video No
Bohemia No
Valley's No
Hanjas No
Asian No
Giantland No
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