How do you take care of a hosta mouse ear?
Water your hosta well as soon as you plant it and from then on water regularly during their first growing season. Give them a water about once or twice a week around the base of the plant, avoiding the leaves.
Can mouse ear hostas tolerate sun?
Easily grown in evenly moist, organically rich, well-drained soils in part shade to full shade. Best in part shade (some morning sun or sun dappled conditions). Established plants have some tolerance for dry shade (particularly plants with thick leaves), but soils should never be allowed to dry out.
Where to plant mouse ear hostas?
Performs best in part shade to full shade in fertile, moist, well-drained soils. Shelter from cold, dry winds.
Is hosta blue mouse ears slug resistant?
An award winning miniature hosta soon making mounds of overlapping blue-grey leaves. Short scaped lavender blue flowers are perfectly to scale. Remarkably slug resistant and ideal for containers.
Magical Mouse Ears turns color quick enough to give the plant good vigor, and it will grow into a unique, tight mound about 6″ tall and 14″ across.
This little mouse is magical, as Hugo Philips named it, who found this sport from Blue Mouse Ears in the production nursery.
Hosta ‘Magical Mouse Ears’. A miniature, clump-forming deciduous perennial with creamy-yellow foliage changing to green as the season progresses.