Good plant #153 - Hosta 'Empress Wu'

This is an absolutely enormous hosta if you let it reach its full potential.  The leaves can grow to well over a foot long.  The plant itself can grow to 5ft tall and wide in five years or so.

As well as being huge, its leathery leaves are less prone to slug damage. I reckon it would make a mighty specimen in very big pot. It looks great mixed in with yellowy foliage like Milium Effusum 'Aureum'.

This hosta will do best in a shady-ish and sheltered site and must have moist, fertile and well-drained soil to reach its full potential.

You can divide this plant in spring when the shoots just appear through the spoil.


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